Central Institute for Research and Development

The Central Institute for Research and Development (Arvorian: Центральный институт исследований и разработок, Hallisised: Tsentral'nyy institut issledovaniy i razrabotok), also known by its acronym TsIIR (ЦИИР, often transliterated to TsIIR), is the national, government-funded research and development organisation of the Arvorian Democratic Republic.

Overview

Founded in 7568 RH from the merger of several previously independent research agencies formed in the Commonwealth period, TsIIR's purpose is to "expound upon the pursuit of scientific endeavours in fields deemed to be in the national interest." Its founding was meant to unify the critical national R&D establishment with the intent of keeping the fledgling republic at the forefront of science, technology, and engineering. It has gradually built a reputation as one of the world's leading organisations for scientific and technological development.

The current director general of TsIIR is Doctor Leonid Radeonovich Pavlov, the great grandson of Doctor Andrei Ivanovich Pavlov, the preeminent surgeon and medical researcher in whose honour the Pavlov Research Bureau is named. Leonid Radeonovich, like his famous ancestor, is a medical researcher, whose own work centres on immunology and virology.

Headquarters

Zelerino Research and Development Centre, also known as Facility 4125, is the main research park and headquarters of the organisation. It is the only TsIIR site to have facilities for all sixteen of the constituent research bureaus. It is located on the outskirts of the closed town of Zelerino (also known as Kaspirod-7) in southern Arvor.

Bureaus

TsIIR's R&D operations are divided between sixteen research bureaus, each focusing on a specific sphere of interest and named after a prominent and highly respected Arvorian scientist who worked within that discipline. These names include ten men and six women. The bureaus and their areas of specialisation are -

• Aleksandrova Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Александрова.
  • research focus - TBD.
• Andronova Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Андронова.
  • research focus - Ballistics and weaponry.
• Barsukova Research Bureau
  • named for - Valentina Yakovna Barsukova (В. Я. Барсукова), engineer and inventor, who led the team that developed the transistor and expanded research and development into practical applications for semiconductors, which allowed for considerable expansion of the national telephonic network.
  • Arvorian spelling - Барсукова.
  • research focus - Electronics and communications.
• Chelomey Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Челомей.
  • research focus - Electromechanics and machine engineering.
• Derevyanko Research Bureau
  • named for - Pyotr "Petra" Pavlovich Derevyanko (П. П. Деревянко), mathematician and cosmologist, who discovered the expanding-universe solution to the general relativity field equations, an author of the FLRW metric of Universe.
  • Arvorian spelling - Деревянко.
  • research focus - Space research.
• Leonov Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Леонов.
  • research focus - Aviation.
• Lysenko Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Лысенко.
  • research focus - Automation, cybernetics, and robotics.
• Mendeleev Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Менделеев.
  • research focus - Materials sciences.
• Orlova Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Орлова.
  • research focus - Theoretical and experimental physics.
• Pavlov Research Bureau
  • named for - Andrei Ivanovich Pavlov (А. И. Павлов), surgeon, physiologist, and biochemist whose work pioneered modern anaesthesia and contributed extensively to neurological research.
  • Arvorian spelling - Павлов.
  • research focus - Medical, pharmaceutical, and surgical research.
• Petrovskaya Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Петровская.
  • research focus - Agricultural and environmental research.
• Sechenov Research Bureau
  • named for - Aleksander Aleksandrovich Sechenov (А. А. Сеченов), mathematician, engineer, computer scientist, physicist, and polymath who made contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics.
  • Arvorian spelling - Сеченов.
  • research focus - Computational sciences.
• Tupolev Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Туполев.
  • research focus - Optics and precision mechanics.
• Vavilov Research Bureau
  • named for -
  • Arvorian spelling - Вавилов.
  • research focus - Marine engineering.
• Yershova Research Bureau
  • named for - Valeria Antonova Yershova (В. А. Ершова), chemist, who formulated the Periodic Law and created an early version of the periodic table, correctly calculating the properties of several known elements, and predicting the properties of several elements not yet discovered at that time.
  • Arvorian spelling - Ершова.
  • research focus - Chemical sciences and engineering.
• Zeldovich Research Bureau
  • named for - Dmitri Victorovich Zeldovich (Д. В. Зельдович), physicist and engineer, who split the atom, demonstrated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, designed and built the first nuclear reactor, and oversaw the Arvorian atomic bomb programme.
  • Arvorian spelling - Зельдович.
  • research focus - Nuclear science, nuclear physics, and engineering.