Autonomous system
AS6801 Federal State Institution Russian Scientific Center Kurchatovsky institute
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Kurchatov Institute
government research legacy
The network of the National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" in Moscow, Russia's principal nuclear physics research institute and now a broad national science centre.
What it's used for
- The institute's research and campus network. It announces
144.206.0.0/17and144.206.160.0/19— long-held academic address space serving scientific computing, laboratories and staff.
Notable
- A national research institution, not a commercial provider: the address space is institutional, with no subscriber or hosting character.
- Kurchatov has historically been a hub for Russian scientific networking, and its address space is part of the older Russian academic allocation rather than anything acquired on the transfer market.
Interesting
- The Kurchatov Institute is where RELCOM, the Soviet Union's first computer network and first commercial internet service provider, was launched in August 1990 in collaboration with the DEMOS cooperative — the beginning of what became the Runet.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 32.77K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6801- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS6801-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kiae.ru
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6801
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS6801
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere