Emergency responders put out the fire at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute on Saturday, May 21.
A fire broke out at a renowned aviation institute in the Moscow region in the latest Russian blaze that has been shared on social media.
The Moscow regional branch of the Russian emergencies ministry said that the fire broke out at a transformer station on the site at around 9 a.m. local time Saturday according to RIA Novosti and was put out within an hour. Other VKontakte users posted images of the blaze."Serious fire at the substation in TsAGI. The transformer is burning," wrote one user next to an image taken from the neighboring Ramensky District several miles away.has contacted for comment, was founded in 1918 by Nikolay Zhukovsky who the city is named after and who is considered to be the father of Russian aviation.