The first issue of the bulletin entitled Instrumentation was published in February 1944 and pioneered the publication of special instrumentation literature in the USSR.

The journal title was changed several times: Instrumentation (1944 – 1968), Navigation and Gyroscopy series of the journals Marine Engineering (1969 – 1973), Shipbuilding Problems (1974–1985), Shipbuilding Industry (1986 – 1992).

The journal got its current title Giroskopiya i Navigatsiya (Gyroscopy and Navigation) in 1993.

The co-founders of the journal "Gyroscopy and Navigation" are the public organization "Academy of Navigation and Motion Control", which unites about 300 leading scientists in this field of science from different countries, and the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation JSC "Concern "Central Research Institute "Elektropribor".