Moscow Radio Engineering Institute

On August 13, 1946, to solve scientific and engineering problems associated with the creation of charged particle accelerators in the framework of the Soviet atomic project , Laboratory No. 11 was established as part of the Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (FIAN) . A prominent radio engineer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, engineer-colonel Alexander Lvovich Mints was appointed head of the laboratory.

In April 1947, the team of A. L. Mints was transferred to the Laboratory of Measuring Instruments (LIPAN) by Academician I. V. Kurchatov ^[3] as the "Department of Radio Equipment of the Laboratory of Measuring Instruments" ( ORLIP ). Work on the creation of accelerators in the USSR was classified as secret; Beria oversaw them. The result was the creation in Dubna in 1949 of a phasotron with an energy of 680 MeV ^{[4] [5]} .

In February 1951, as part of the Third Main Directorate , an independent Radio Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( RALAN ) was formed under the leadership of A. L. Mints.

In 1957, the laboratory was transformed into the Radio Engineering Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( RTI Academy of Sciences of the USSR ), whose director A. L. Mints was appointed. On the line of the Ministry of Radioprom , work was carried out at the institute on radar topics , and on the line of the Ministry of Environment , on accelerator ^[3] . In the same year, with the participation of RALAN-RTI, a powerful synchrophasotron , a proton synchrotron, was launched at an energy of 10 GeV, which was almost twice the power of the only active Bevatron accelerator of this class (USA) ^[4] . The work was awarded the Lenin Prize (1959) ^[5] .

In 1961, in Moscow, at the ITEP , the proton synchrotron was physically launched with rigid focusing on an energy of 7 GeV ^[4] .

In 1970, a group of RTI specialists for the development of a linear proton accelerator for energy of 100 MeV and an electronics system for a proton synchrotron for energy of 76 GeV (in IHEP , Protvino) was awarded the Lenin and State Prizes ^[5] .

In 1972-1976, the institute developed a high-current proton accelerator for the Institute of Nuclear Research, USSR Academy of Sciences, at an energy of 600 MeV and an average current of 0.5 mA. This is today the largest in Europe and the second largest linear accelerator in the world ^[4] .

In the 1970s, the institute also actively developed applied work on the creation and use of accelerators in industry. One of the first such works was the creation of industrial accelerators for radiation technologies ( curing of polymer coatings, wastewater disinfection , sterilization of medical instruments and others).

In 1976, for the further development of accelerator technology, all units involved in this topic were separated from the RTI and formed the Scientific Research Institute of High-Energy Devices ( NIIEVEU ), which in January 1977 was renamed the Moscow Radio Engineering Institute ( MRTI AN USSR ) ^[4] .

In 1992, the "Academy of Sciences of the USSR" was renamed the "Russian Academy of Sciences", and the institute is called "Moscow Radio Engineering Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences" ( MRTI RAS ).

Since 2000 - Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Moscow Radio Engineering Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (FSUE “MRTI RAS”).

In 2004, the institute was given the status of “Federal Research and Production Center”.

In 2012, the company changed its form of ownership and was transformed into JSC MRTI RAS.

Academician A. L. Mints Radio Engineering Institute