Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre was established in 1955 and became a leading research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Its areas of research include:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Mathematical Physics
• Mathematical modeling of Climatic Ecological Processes and other Nonlinear Phenomena
• Solid mechanics and Elastic-Plastic Problems
• Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
• Computer Aided Design
• Optimization Methods, Linear and Nonlinear programming
• Analytical mechanics and Lyapunov's Stability of Motion
• Rigid body dynamics and Space Dynamics
• Interactive Optimization and Decision support systems
• Parallel Computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mathematical modeling of Economic Processes
• Software development