The Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute () is a state educational institution of higher professional education in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The right for educational activity in the School is authorised by license №24Г-0299 issued by the Russian Federation Ministry of general and professional education on 1 April 1999 and certificate №25-0790 of state approval granted by the Russian Federation Ministry of Education on 7 December 1999. The School owns Certificate 005 of Federal Aviation Authority of Russia dated by 20 February 2002. History The Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute is the oldest flight school for civil pilots training in Russia. The flight school started its activities in 1935 in Bataysk. In 1939 due to the unsafe international situation, the school moved to Mineralnye Vody, meanwhile Bataysk United school was given to RKKA. In October 1941 due to World War II, the school was relocated to Tashkent, and its main task became to provide the Red Army with Il-2 pilots. In May 1944 the school came back to Mineralnye Vody, where they continued to train specialists on Il-2 aircraft, and in 1947 they started to train civilian pilots on a new aeroplane, the Il-12. Also in 1947 the school was renamed from "Higher flight courses"(КВЛП/KVLP) to "Higher flight school"(ШВЛП/ShVLP), which was relocated to Buguruslan in Orenburg Oblast, and later to Ulyanovsk in 1950. In 1955 Il-14 pilot training started, and in 1958 pilot training on An-10 and Il-18, aeroplanes with turboshaft engines began. In the beginning of the 60s, the school started to train Tu-104 pilots. In November 1955 the training of foreign pilots started, when specialists from East Germany arrived. But a really mass training of air crew started in 1957. Pilots, flight-engineers, flight-radio operators from GDR, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary were trained on the Il-14. When aeroplanes with turboprop engines Il-18 and An-10 arrived, training of pilots from Guinea, Mali and Ghana started as well. From 1962 to 1972 in Ulyanovsk Higher Flight School were mastered a lot of aeroplanes such as the Tu-124, Tu-134, Tu-154 and An-24. In December 1974 it was decided to create "Comecon Civil Aviation Centre"(Центр ГА СЭВ). Firstly it was decided to build Training Laboratories, an Aviation Training Centre and a Hotel. On the next turn it was planned to build a Medical Centre, Gym, Swimming Pool, etc. In the beginning of 1983 the building of the Centre's main objectives was completed. In this period Il-62, Il-76,