Samara State Aerospace University

Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) is one of Russia's leading engineering and technical institutions. It is located in the city of Samara.

– Institutions: Space Engineering Institute, Aerospace Propulsion Institute, Aeronautical Engineering Institute, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Institute, Continuing Professional Education Institute, Continuing Professional Education Institute;

– Faculties: Industrial Engineering, Informational Science, Computer Science, Economics and Management, Basic Training and Fundamental Sciences and Correspondence Education;

– The research library stocked with over 1 million books and electronic resources;

– Research institutes: Research Institute of Machine Acoustics, Research Institute of Airframe constructions, Research Institute of Instrument-making, Research Institute of Technologies and Quality Problems, Research Institute of System Designing;

– Air Transport and Aviation Technical College;

– 35 research laboratories and centers;

– Training airfield;

– Center of the History of aircraft engines named after N.D. Kuznetsov; it is an educational and scientific-technical center which is included into the All-Russian Museum Register. The world's largest collection of Russian gas turbine engines is assembled here, the bank of the implemented engineering experience in the field of aviation gas turbine engine.

– Intercollegiate media center with supercomputer;

– The center for receiving and processing space information;

– Inter-department educational and research center of CAM-technologies;

– Public museum of aviation and cosmonautics;

– Health and fitness centers;

– Halls of residence for students and the hotel;

– The University has 9 dissertation councils for doctoral and master's theses.

The Supervisory Board is one of the university administration. The composition of the Supervisory Board includes:

Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (Kuai) formed in accordance with the order of the All-Union Committee on Higher Education in SNK for the military aviation industry designers in 1942. The first classes in the walls of the new institute started in October 1942.

In 1957 Kuai began active development of space technology and the training of qualified specialists in this field. Employees of the Institute participated in the development of rocket, in particular, in the development of carrier rockets Soyuz, "Lightning" and "East" and "Peace" in preparation for space programs at the space station. C 1956 Institute of management was taken over by the Hero of Socialist Labor, Professor VP Lukachёva that helped the university to go to the national level. February 22, 1966 under the decree number 136 of the CC CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers "On the perpetuation of the memory of Academician SP Korolev" Kuai was named after SP Korolev, and in the next year by the decree of the Supreme Soviet Presidium of the institute was awarded the Order Red Banner of Labor.

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