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VNIIR

JSC All-Russian Research and Design Institute of Relay Manufacture with a Pilot Factory (VNIIR). Today VNIIR employs over 2000 specialists. The company had turnover of over 3.5 billion rubles in 2008.

VNIIR is one of the largest enterprises in the Russian electrical power industry. Largely thanks to the institute’s highly competent personnel, Cheboksary has managed to become the capital of the Russian electrical power industry. Devices and electrical equipment designed by VNIIR are manufactured by a large number of enterprises in Russia and the CIS countries. These items are used in such industries as power-engineering, machinery, space, automobile, and metal manufacture, and others.

VNIIR is one of the oldest and at the same time one of the youngest enterprises of Cheboksary. This paradox is no accident. The institute, which started to operate in 1961 as the product developer for the Cheboksary Electrotechnical Equipment Plant, has transformed itself into the leading enterprise of the Russian electrical power industry.

The last ten years have seen dramatic changes in VNIIR following its affiliation to ABS Holdings. These changes helped the institute gain experience and acquire advanced technologies of the world’s leading producers. This spurred the development not only of isolated areas, but also of the whole production complex, engineering and design. Today VNIIR employs over 2,000 specialists. By 2008 the institute’s annual turnover had increased twenty times to a total of over 3.5 billion rubles. The company has branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Today VNIIR operates as a multipurpose research, engineering and manufacturing enterprise undertaking the complete cycle of operations, from R&D to production and servicing at installation sites. The uniqueness of the institute is the combination of foreign technologies and developments with their adaptation to domestic conditions. The institute provides comprehensive assistance to its customers with the aim of modernization and extending the lifespan of electrotechnical equipment for energy facilities which are to be retrofitted, are in operation, or are being recommissioned.

VNIIR has the following core areas:

automation systems for protection and control of energy facilities;
dispatching control automation systems: automatic process control system, automatic system for commercial accounting of power consumption, automatic energy control system;
flexible AC transmission systems;
automation systems for reduced-voltage start and HV motor control;
low-voltage equipment: relay for the power industry and automation, wiring products, contacts;
low-voltage electrical switchboards;
marine automation systems;
electrical equipment for special machines;
integrated electrotechnical equipment.

VNIIR is engaged in extensive research in the following areas:

simulation and optimization of the operating conditions of electric-power systems and their elements using hardware-in-the-loop digital simulating complexes;
primary systems development for the electric power industry;
network strategic development planning;
calculation of the stability of power systems;
power electronics (extensive research into both electric equipment and the electric power industry);
low voltage equipment development.

The bulk of R&D is carried out by the institute’s specialists in collaboration with leading specialists and research centers.