The study of foreign experience by the specialists of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TSAGI) in the second half of the 1920s (based on materials from the Russian state archive in Samara)

The article is based on archival documents and devoted to the process of studying of foreign technologies by the engineers of one of the largest research institutes (the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, or TsAGI) in the 1920s. The authors reveal the importance of the obtained information for the development of national science and technology. The duty journeys of Soviet engineers in the 1920s became a significant factor in the expansion of the relations between the USSR and Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium and other European countries after the First World War and contributed to the development of scientific and technical thought.