Russia
Facilities
Last Updated: March, 2013
Nuclear
The below entries provide analytical descriptions of selected nuclear facilities in Russia. Since definitive information on Russia's nuclear facilities is often classified, the descriptions and locations of these facilities are sometimes speculative, based on the most credible available open source material. Entries are regularly updated as further information becomes available.
Facilities Descriptions
Administration
Enrichment
Fuel Fabrication
Mining and Milling
Missile-Research and Development
Nuclear-Power Reactors
Reprocessing
Research and Development
- A.A. Bochvar High-Technology Scientific Research Institute for Inorganic Materials (VNIINM)
- A.I. Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
- A.P. Aleksandrov Scientific Research Technological Institute (NITI)
- Afrikantov Experimental Design Bureau for Mechanical Engineering (OKBM)
- B.P. Konstantinov St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (IPPN or PNPI)
- I.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE)
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Joint Stock Company «State Scientific Center - Research Institute of Atomic Reactors» (NIIAR)
- Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry (NIFKhl): Obninsk Branch
- Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MIFI or MEPhI)
- N.A. Dollezhal Scientific Research and Design Institute of Energy Technologies (NIKIET)
- National Research Center Kurchatov Institute
- Red Star
- Scientific Research Institute for Instruments (NIIP) (Lytkarino)
- Tomsk Polytechnic University (Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Physics (NIIYaF))
- Troitskii Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research (TRINITI)
Waste Management
Weapons
- All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA)
- All-Russian Scientific Institute of Measuring Systems (NIIIS)
- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)
- Bazalt
- Design Bureau of Automotive Transport Equipment (KB ATO)
- Elektrokhimpribor Combine
- Institute of Strategic Stability (ISS)
- Instrumentation Factory (PSZ)
- Sever Production Association (PO Sever)
- Start Production Association (PO Start)
- Urals Elektromechanical Plant (UEMZ)
- Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Technical Physics (VNIITF)
Get the Facts on Russia
- Nuclear weapons state party to NPT with large nuclear arsenal and diverse delivery systems
- Pursued covert biological weapons program during Soviet era while a state party to the BTWC
- Announced destruction of chemical weapons stockpile in 2017, but accused of using CW for assassinations
