VNIIavtogenmash Open Joint Stock Company, Moscow Institute for autogenous mechanical engineering was established in February 1944 at the initiative of the Academician P.L. Kapitsa. The institute started its activities with the development of technologies and equipment for oxygen cutting using substitutes of acetylene, underwater gaseous oxy-fuel cutting. The technology of gas-electric cutting was created in 1950s. In 1960s, the Institute received the status of research and design organization an...