中央航空发动机研究院始建于1930年12月3日，是在中央空气流体动力学研究院螺旋桨发动机部、汽车和汽车发动机研究院的航空发动机部、伏龙芝航空工厂附属设计局基础上联合组建的，是俄罗斯航空发动机领域最权威的综合性、系统性研究机构。该研究院是俄罗斯联邦国家科学中心、联邦国家企业，是俄罗斯唯一拥有从航空发动机的研制到对产品的科技维护的全方面能力的企业。
CIAM作为俄罗斯领先的发动机研究机构，为无人机、小型飞机、亚音速客机和伙计、高超声速飞机、直升机以及其它各类型飞机设计发动机。CIAM拥有航空发动机开发的全生命周期技术，参与了俄罗斯所有的国产发动机的设计。CIAM的竞争实力在于拥有先进的数字化设计技术和航空发动机及其部件的设计及测试技术。
1953年创建起，CIAM多年来一直拥有欧洲最大的航空发动机试验体系。CIAM在航空发动机设计方面的主要任务包括：对未来各大类飞行器引擎发展进行全面预测、新型现代化发动机设计、发动机工作流程数学建模、发动机CAD数学建模、小型发动机设计、航空活塞发动机设计、高速发动机设计、发展和更新民用航空发动机的规范等。
Founded on December 3, 1930, the Central Aero Engine Research Institute is the most authoritative comprehensive and systematic research institution in the field of Russian aero-engines on the basis of the Propeller Engine Department of the Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics, the Aero Engine Department of the Automobile and Automotive Engine Research Institute, and the Affiliated Design Bureau of the Frunze Aviation Plant. The Institute is the State Science Center of the Russian Federation, a federal state enterprise, and the only enterprise in Russia with all-round capabilities from the development of aero engines to the scientific and technological maintenance of products.
CIAM is Russia's leading engine research institute, designing engines for drones, small aircraft, subsonic airliners and guys, hypersonic aircraft, helicopters and other types of aircraft. CIAM has the whole life cycle technology of aero engine development and participates in the design of all domestic engines in Russia. CIAM's competitive strength lies in its advanced digital design technology and design and testing technology for aero engines and their components.
Founded in 1953, CIAM has had the largest test system for aircraft engines in Europe for many years. CIAM's main tasks in aero-engine design include: comprehensive prediction of future development of various types of aircraft engines, new modern engine design, mathematical modeling of engine workflows, mathematical modeling of engine CAD, design of small engines, design of aero piston engines, design of high-speed engines, development and updating of specifications for civil aero engines, etc.