NIIAS is 70 years old!

Stages of development February 14, 1956 - The USSR Minister of Railways B.P. Beshchev signed an order on the establishment of the Design Bureau of the Main Directorate of Signalling and Communications (KB TsSh). The Institute was engaged in the creation of new devices of railway automation, telemechanics, as well as developments in the field of information technology. In 1987, on the basis of the KB TsSh and the divisions of the All-Union Research Institute of Railway Transport (VNIIGT), the Research Institute of Railway Automation (NIIZHA) was created. In 2000, the Research Institute of Railway Engineering was transformed into the Russian Research and Design Institute of Informatization, Automation, and Communications in Railway Transport (VNIIS of the Russian Ministry of Railways). In 2007, the VNIIS of the Russian Ministry of Railways was transformed into the Research and Design Institute of Informatization, Automation, and Communications in Railway Transport (NIIS OJSC).