Reactive Scientific Research Institute

Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII)

Katyusha rocket launchers firing during WWII, which were created at RNII
Parent institution	People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry
Founder(s)	Gas Dynamics Laboratory and Group for the Study of Reactive Motion
Established	21 September 1933
Key people	Sergei Korolev, Valentin Glushko
Address	Onezhskaya St, 8/10
Location	Moscow , RSFSR , USSR
Dissolved	18 February 1944 transferred to the Scientific-Research Institute 1 (NII-1)
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Reactive Scientific Research Institute (commonly known by the joint initialism RNII; Russian: Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, romanized: Reaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut)^{[note 1]} was one of the first Soviet research and development institutions to focus on rocket technology. RNII developed the Katyusha rocket launcher^[2] and its research and development were very important for later achievements of the Soviet rocket and space programs.

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