ABSTRACT
The Leningrad State Special Design Institute-11 was at that time the sole general designer of all reactors. It is still the general designer of many production facilities in the atomic industry, including radiochemical plants and plants for separation of uranium isotopes. By the order of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, No. 183 of October 21, 1933, [114], a special Design Bureau Dvigatelstroi was established (6, Naberezhnaya Krasnogo Flota) under the jurisdiction of the Chief Military-Mobilization Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. In 1938 the Bureau was named State Special Design Institute-11, and by Decree No. 4 of January 21, 1939, it was placed under the People's Commissariat of Ammunition. During the war the Institute was evacuated to Kirov City, where it worked to orders from 24 People's Commissariats, designing 89 military works and complexes. In 1944, the Institute was returned to Leningrad, and by Decision No. 996 of the State Defense Committee of September 4, 1945, it was placed under the PGU. In 1941-1945 the Institute was headed by A. I . Gutov, the Chief Engineer was F .Z . Shiryaev. After the Institute had been subordinated to the PGU, Gutov remained to be its Director, and V . V . Smirnov was appointed a Chief Engineer. The first designs of the Institute were orders to reconstruct some of the oldest Soviet plants (for example, Plant No. 48 in Moscow).
