Developed the "Tokamak" controlled thermonuclear fusion installation, and has participated in the building of all large accelerator, laser and thermonuclear fusion installations in the former Soviet Union; formerly part of NPO Elektrofizika and subordinate to the Ministry of Atomic Power; state-controlled firm established in 1945; manufacture of nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, lasers, electric motors, and generators for steam and gas turbines; development of electrophysical equipment, including machines used for research in nuclear physics, high energy physics, and controlled thermonuclear fusion; research and development of cyclic accelerators, high voltage accelerators, linear accelerators, high current pulsed accelerators, laser techniques and technology, and technical superconductivity; development of several kinds of laser machines; its Science and Technology Center of Microtechnology reportedly agreed to sell a laser isotope enrichment technology to Iran, but the deal was scrapped in early 2001.