Central Institute for Research and Development

The Central Institute for Research and Development (Arvorian: Центральный институт исследований и разработок), also known by its acronym TsIIR (ЦИИР, often transliterated to TsIIR), is the national, government-funded research and development organisation of Arvor.

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 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. Prior to transferring to Zelerino in 7681, he was a research director at the VECTOR Institute near Salanovo.

Headquarters

Zelerino Research and Development Centre, also known as Facility 4125, is the research park and headquarters of the organisation. It is located on the outskirts of the closed naukograd of Zelerino (also known as Kaspirod-7) in southern Arvor. The grounds of the facility cover approximately 137 square kilometres, most of it within the Orylkovo Valley at the southern end of the Polepovets Mountains, and consists of the dedicated complexes of the research bureaus, numerous support structures, three dedicated generating stations, several parks and monuments, and both a dedicated rail line and road network for the movement of people and equipment. The entire facility has an extensive underground as well, which contains approximately nine times the volume of all sixteen bureau complexes combined and is interconnected by service and pedestrian tunnels, a monorail network, and two additional generating stations.

Each of the sixteen bureau complexes have a dedicated, secure museum within them which displays various discoveries, products, and projects that branch of the agency has handled over its history. These museums are accessible only with the approval of the bureau director and cannot be accessed unaccompanied. In some cases, the museums have additional, special displays which can only be viewed with specific permission, even if granted access to the museum itself. These museums are secure because some of their displays detail work that remains highly classified.

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. Under the umbrella of some bureaus are specialised state research centres which are located throughout the nation. The bureaus and their areas of specialisation are -

• Andronova Research Bureau
  • named for - Андронова.
  • research focus - Ballistics, explosives, and weaponry.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Precision-Technical Engineering ARBORON
• 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.
  • research focus - Electronics, electromechanics, and communications.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Radiotechnical Science
• Ivankov Research Bureau
  • named for - Иванков.
  • research focus - Automation, cybernetics, and robotics.
  • affiliated institutes - none
• Leonov Research Bureau
  • named for - Pyotr "Petra" Pavlovich Leonov (П. П. Леонов), leading engineer and scientist involved in the early space research efforts of the ADR, responsible for the design and oversight of construction of several rocket and satellite models.
  • research focus - Aerospace research.
  • affiliated institutes - none
• Murayov Research Bureau
  • named for - Fyodor Andreevich Murayov (Ф. А. Мураев), chemist and inventor, who developed neoprene and nylon in 7638 and 7642, respectively. He would later lead the teams which developed biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene terephthalate, and synthetic flashspun high-density polyethylene fiber.
  • research focus - Materials sciences.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Alloy Development, State Research Centre of Solid-State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry
• Orlova Research Bureau
  • named for - Irina Nikolayevna Orlova (И. Н. Орлова), theoretical physicist who published four papers which contributed to the foundation of modern theoretical physics detailing the photoelectric effect, random particle motion, the theory of special relativity, and the principle of mass-energy equivalence.
  • research focus - Theoretical and experimental physics.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of High-Energy 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 and the understanding of neurological diseases, remembered by history as the "Father of Modern Anesthesia" and the "Father of Modern Neurology".
  • research focus - Medical, pharmaceutical, and surgical research.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Experimental Medicine, State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR
• Petrovskaya Research Bureau
  • named for - Петровская.
  • research focus - Agricultural and environmental research.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Plant Cultivation and Breeding
• Sechenov Research Bureau
  • named for - Aleksandr 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.
  • research focus - Computational and computer sciences.
  • affiliated institutes - Sechenov Computational Centre, State Research Centre of Informatics
• Toropov Research Bureau
  • named for - Pyotr Mironovich Toropov (П. М. Торопов), optician and physicist who successfully developed the first successful laser, known as the RUBY (РУБИН), which was a solid-state pink ruby laser that emitted the first coherent light beam, with rays all the same wavelength and fully in phase, and his brother, Grigory Mironovich Toropov (Г. М. Торопов), engineer and precision machinist, who developed the mechanisms needed to manipulate the housing containing the synthetic ruby crystal remotely to conduct studies on the beam's behaviour and reactions to certain alignments.
  • research focus - Optics and precision mechanics.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Electro-Optical Engineering, State Research Centre of Radiotechnological Study
• 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. She is remembered as the "Mother of the Periodic Table".
  • research focus - Chemical sciences and engineering.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Chemical-Physical Processes, State Research Centre of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion
• 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 atomic bomb project, remembered by history as the "Architect of the Atomic Age" and the "Father of the Atomic Bomb".
  • research focus - Nuclear science, nuclear physics, and engineering.
  • affiliated institutes - State Research Centre of Nuclear Physics and Research ARCPOINT, State Research Centre of Radiological Studies