{{Short description|Engineering research institute}} {{Infobox university |name = |native_name = |latin_name = |image = Нижегородский Научно-исследовательский радиофизический институт, май 2018.jpg |motto = |established = 1956 |type = |endowment = |staff = |faculty = |president = |provost = |principal = |rector = |chancellor = |vice_chancellor = |dean = |head_label = |head = |students = |undergrad = |postgrad = |doctoral = |profess = |city =Nizhny Novgorod |state = |country =Russia |campus = |free_label = |free = |colors = |colours = |mascot = |nickname = |affiliations =Russian Academy of Sciences |footnotes = |website =[http://www.keldysh.ru/ www.keldysh.ru] |address = Miusskaya pl., 4, 125047 |coor = {{coord|56.32521|44.02117|type:landmark_globe:earth_region:RU|display=ti}} |logo = }} thumb|Radio telescope RT-15-2 of radio-astronomical station «Zimenki» The '''Radiophysical Research Institute''' ('''NIRFI'''), based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is a research institute that conducts basic and applied research in the field of radiophysics, radio astronomy, cosmology and radio engineering. It is also known for its work in solar physics, sun-earth physics as well as the related geophysics. It also does outreach for the Russian education system. It was formed in 1956 as the Radiophysical Research Institute of the (Soviet) Ministry of Education and Science.<ref name=Snegirev> {{cite journal | author = Snegirev, S. D. | author2 = Fridman, V. M. | author3 = Sheiner, O. A. | author4 = Pertzborn, R. | author5 = Limaye, S. | author6 = Crosby, N.
| name-list-style = amp | title = Role of the Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI) for promoting and teaching science in Russia | journal =Advances in Geosciences | volume = 3 | issue = | pages =41–46 | publisher =European Geosciences Union | date = June 2005 | doi = 10.5194/adgeo-3-41-2005 | url =http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/29/67/94/PDF/adgeo-3-41-2005.pdf | accessdate =19 May 2014 |bibcode = 2005AdG.....3...41S | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name=james> {{cite book | author =P. James | author2 = E. Peebles | display-authors = etal | title =Finding the Big Bang | publisher =Cambridge University Press | date =April 2009 | location = | pages =296–300 | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=QdcdcMi-xpgC&pg=PA296 | isbn =978-0-521-51982-3}}</ref><ref name= nechaeva>{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s11141-007-0047-3 |url=http://lfvn.astronomer.ru/report/0000031/index_en.htm |title=VLBI studies at the Radiophysical Research Institute |journal=Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics |volume=50 |issue=7 |pages=527 | accessdate =26 May 2014|date=2007 |last1=Nechaeva |first1=M. B. |last2=Antipenko |first2=A. A. |last3=Dement’Ev |first3=A. F. |last4=Dugin |first4=N. A. |last5=Snegirev |first5=S. D. |last6=Tikhomirov |first6=Yu. V. |bibcode = 2007R&QE...50..527N |s2cid=121575588 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Projects NIRFI == thumb|Radiotelescope RT-15-1 astronomical station «Zimenki» NIRFI (May, 2006). Now it is dismantled (it is most likely handed over on scrap metal) * Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility * Zimenkovsky radio-astronomical observatory * Radio telescope - RT-14 laboratories NIRFI Staraya Pustin + two RT-7
==Further reading== * {{cite book | editor =Braude, S.Y. | display-editors =etal | title = A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR | publisher =Springer Science+Business Media | series =Collection of Scientific Essays Series | volume = 382 | edition = | date =2012 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=3DqOARyWib4C | isbn =978-94-007-2833-2}} 254 pages.
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