The Russian Space Research Institute is in performing, within the Russian Academy of Sciences, investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe.
It is primary in charge of long-range planning and elaboration of space research programs of which a considerable part is performed within the framework of international space research cooperation.
(Russian: Институт космических исследований Российской Академии Наук, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian abbreviation: ИКИ РАН, IKI RAN)