ON THE JUBILEE OF THE ALL-RUSSIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF METROLOGICAL SERVICE

摘要

On October 1, 2010, the All-Russia Research Institute of Metrological Service (VNIIMS) celebrated its 110th year, after a complicated journey from the Moscow assayers office under the Moscow region assayers administration to the State scientific metrological institute of the National Standards Department. The history of the institute is discussed in an article by its director, Dr. S. A. Kononogov, in a special issue of the journal Istoriya Nauki i Tekhniki (History of Science and Technology), No. 9, 2010. As in the past, VNIIMS is the main scientific metrological center of the country for legal metrology, in accordance with which groups of interrelated and mutually dependent common technical and legal rules, specifications, and standards subject to state regulation are set up to ensure the uniformity of measurement with the cooperation of competent agencies.