The Gromov Flight Research Institute or GFRI for short is an important Russian State Research Centre which operates an aircraft test base located in Zhukovsky, 40 km south-east of Moscow. The airfield is also known as Ramenskoye air base.
The airfield was used as the backup landing site for the Shuttle Buran test program and also as a test base for a Buran's aerodynamic prototype BTS-002.
GFRI periodically hosts the MAKS International Air Show.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromov_Flight_Research_Institute
Official Website http://www.lii.ru/
Coordinates 55°33'39.531" N 38°7'9.963" E
