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History
For more than fifty years of its history the Institute has done a large volume of work related to creation of new railway automation and remote control equipment, as well as development of information technology and improvement of existing signalling, interlocking and block systems.
In 1956 the design bureau of the Main Directorate for Signalling and Communication of the Ministry of Railways (CB TsSh) was established. In 1987 NPO Sojuzzheldoravtomatizatsia was founded. It took over the Research & Design Institute for Railway Automation (NIIZhA) (successor of CB TsSh) and several departments of the All-Union Research and Design Institute for Railway Transport (VNIIZhT). The latter brought scientific and technical solutions and designs in the area of automation and communications systems subsequently implemented in the railway operation processes.
In 2000, in order to coordinate design and research activities in the area of railway transport information technology, NIIZhA was reorganized into the head research facility of the industry – Russian Research & Design Institute for Informatics, Automatics, and Communication on Railway Transport of the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation (VNIIAS MPS of Russia). A new phase of IT penetration started with the integration of branch-wise automatics and control systems.
In 2007 VNIIAS MPS of Russia became part of JSC RZD as its subsidiary company and was renamed as Research & Design Institute for Information Technology, Signalling and Telecommunications on Railway Transport (JSC NIIAS).
