Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Organisations
Introduction This is a glossary of acronyms and initials used for organisations in the Russian Federation and formerly the USSR. The Latin-alphabet names are phonetic representations of the Cyrillic originals, and variations are inevitable.
Organisations  - : Aero-geological Industrial Association: ''otdel Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya'' - section for aviation, hydro-aviation and experimental construction: ''Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya'' - Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division: - organisation for importing and licensing American products: ''Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-proizvodstvennyy Kompleks MIG'' – aviation science and production complex MiG: ''Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks'' – Aviation scientific-technical complex: ''Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks'' – Tupolev aviation scientific-technical complex: ''AviaRemontnyy Zavod'' – aircraft repair factory: ''Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota'' – air fleet academy: – independent Arctic directorate of Aeroflot: – squadron part of an LO: - all-union aviation export agency: ''Aviatsiya i Khimiya'' - Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Soviet Aircraft and Chemical Industry: – Vnito aviation department of the all-union scientific and technical research organisation:''Gosudarstvenniy Trest Aviatsionniy Promishlennosti'' - State Aviation Industry Trust: - central aviation management organisation Sept 1923: ''Byuro Novykh Konstruktsiy'' - bureau of new designs: ''Byuro Novoy Tekhniki'' - bureau of new technology NKAP: ''Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy'' - bureau of special design: – see TsAGI: – see TsKB: – see TsIAM: – see TsNII: – see TsUMVS: – secret police 1918-22 became OGPU'''': - (Dyuflon & Konstaninovich factory): - Deutsche Russki Air German/Russian airline 1922: ''Dolgoprudnenskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod'' – Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory: Russian airline 1922: ''Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu'' - voluntary society for assistance to the army, air force and navy: ''Eksperimentahl'nyy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod'' - experimental machinery factory: ''Federal'noye Agentstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svyazi i Informatsii'' – federal agency of government communications and information: ''Federatsiya Lyubiteley Aviatsii Rossiyskoy Federatsii'' – aviation enthusiasts federation of Russia: ''Gosudarstvenny Aviatsionnyy Zavod'' – state aviation plant/factory: ''Gazodinamicheskaya Laboratoriya'' - Gas Dynamics Laboratory: ''Gosudarstvenny Elektro-Energeticheskiy Institut'' - State Institute of Electricity and Energy: ''Gosudarstvenny Institoot po Raketnoy Dvigatel'naya'' - group for studying reaction engines: ''Gosudarstvenny Institut po Raketnoy Tekhnike'' – state institute for rocket technology: ''Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii'' -  state red banner air forces research institute: ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti''  - state committee on aviation industry:'' Gosudarstvenny  Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike'' -  state committee on aircraft technology: ''Gosudarstvenniy Komitet Oborony'' - state defence committee:'' Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Rahdioelektronike'' – state committee for electronic equipment: ''Glavnoe Pravlenie Obédinennikh Aviapromishlennikh'' – Chief Directorate of united aviation industry factories: – Main Directorate of northern sea routes: ''Gosudarstvenny Lyotno-Ispytahtel'nyy Tsentr'' – state flight test centre formerly GNIKI VVS:'' Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'ny Krasnoznamenny Institut  VVS'' – State research test institute for the air forces: ''Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Sistem'' -  state scientific research institute for aircraft systems: ''Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii'' -  state scientific research institute for civil aviation  replaced Gos NII GVF:''Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota''  - state scientific research institute for civil air fleet: ''Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii'' -  state air forces research institute: ''Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'nyy Poligon Aviatsionnykh System'' -  state research and test range for aircraft systems: ''Gosudarstvenny Standart'' -  state standard: ''Gosudarstvenny Optnyy Zavod'' – State Experimental Plant: - civil experimental aeroplane construction: ''Gosudarstvennoye Soyooznoye Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro'' – State Union experimental design/construction bureau: GSPI-7 institute: ''Gosudarstvennyy Soyuznyy Zavod'' – State Union factory - ''ГУАП'': ''Главное управление авиационной промышленности'' - ''Glavnoye upravleniye uviatsionnoy promyshlennosti'' - Chief directorate of the aviation industry - ''ГУ ГВФ'': ''Главное управление гражданского воздушного флота'' - ''Glavnoye upravleniye grazhdanskovo vozdushnogo flota'' – Chief directorate of the civil air fleet: ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti''- main directorate of the northern sea route: ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno Promishlennosti''- main directorate of military industry: ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil''- main directorate of air force: ''Grazdanskiy Vozdushniy Flot''- civil air fleet: – see TsIAM: - metallurgical institute: ''Institut Promishlennoy Energetiki'' - institute of industrial power engineering: - Kazan aviation institute: - A. M. Isayev Chemical Engineering Design Bureau (Russian: ): ''Konstruktorskoye Byuro Radiostroyeniya'' – experimental design/construction bureau: ''Konstruktorskoye Byuro 'Vnutrenn'aya Tyur'ma'' - Internal Prison Design Bureau: ''Komitet  Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti'' – state security committee: ''Kharkovskii Aviatsionny Institut'' - Kharkov aviation institute: ''Kharkovskii Traktorniy Zavod'' - Kharkov tractor factory: ''Kievskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye'' – Kiev Aircraft Production Association: ''Kievskiy Aviazavod'' – Kiev Aircraft Factory: - Kiev Institute of civil aviation engineering: ''Kazanskoe Motorostroitelnoe Proizvodsvennoe Obédinenie'' - Kazan Engine-building production Enterprise: 'Trood' ''Kiyevskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod 'Trud''' - 'Labour' Kiev Manufacturing plant: ''Komitet Oboroni'' - defence committee: ''Komissiya po Tyazhyeloi Aviatsii'' - commission for heavy aviation: ''Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi'' - young communists union: ''Krasnogorskiy Optiko-Mekhanicheskiy Zavod'' – Krasnogorsk optics and machinery plant: ''Konstruktorskiy Otdel Sektora Opytnogo Stroitel'stva'' - section of experimental aeroplane construction: ''Leningrahdskiy Institut Grazhdahnskovo vozdooshnovo flota'' – Leningrad Civil Air Fleet Institute: ''Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut'' (''Letno-issledovatelʹskiy institut, Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti'') - flight research institute (of the state commissariat for aviation industry): ''Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza'' – design bureau flight test and mod facility: - Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers: ''Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye'' – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association : ''Letnyy Otryad'' – flight detachment of an OAO: ''Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut imeny Sergo Ordjoniidze'' -  Moscow aviation institute (named after Sergo Ordjoniidze) : ''Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti'' - ministry of aviation industry: ''Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye'' – Moscow aircraft production association MiG: ''Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod'' – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant: ''Moskovskii Aviatsionii Technologicheskii Institut'' - Moscow aviation technological institute: - EMERCOM Russia: ''Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii'' – ministry of civil aviation: ''Ministerstvo Grazdanskogo Vozdooshnogo Flota'' - ministry of civil aviation: - Moscow institute of electronics: ''Moskovskoye Mashinostroitel'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' – Moscow mechanical engineering design bureau: ''Moskovskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod'' – Moscow machine-building plant: ''Moskovskiy Naoochno-Issledovatel'sky Institoot Priborostroyeniya'' – Moscow research institute of instrument engineering: ''Moskovskaya Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya'' - Moscow group for studying reactive movement: ''Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Mashinostroyeniya'' – ministry of general machinery: ''Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Promyshlennosti'' – ministry of defence industry: - all-union association for experimental marine aircraft: ''Ministerstvo Rahdioelektronnoy Promyshlennosti'' – ministry of electronics industry: - ministry for internal affairs 1946-53: ''Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya po soglasovaniyu Norm Lyotnoy Godnosti Samolyotov'' – inter-department airworthiness regulations co-ordinating commission: ''Moskva Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye'' - Moscow higher technical school: ''Nauchno-Avtomobilnaya Laboratoriya'' - scientific auto-mobile laboratory: ''Nauchnyy avtomotornyy Institut'' - scientific auto-motor institute: ''Novosibirskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvenniye Obyedineniye'' – Novosibirsk aircraft production association: - supreme directorate of aviation industry became GUAP: ''Nizhegorodskiy AviaZavod'' – Nizhniy Novgorod aircraft factory: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institut'' - scientific research aero-institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy'' – scientific research institute of aviation technologies: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy i  Eksperimenahl'nyy Institut  Parashootnodesahntnykh Sistem'' – Parachute Delivery systems Research and Experimental Institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Poligon Aviatsionnogo Vooruzheniya'' - research test range of aircraft armament: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut'' - scientific research institute more than 30 such as NII VVS,: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnogo Oborudovaniya'' – avionics scientific research institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnykh Sistem'' – aircraft systems scientific research institute:''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota'' - civil air fleet scientific research institute for aero-engines:''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya'' - scientific research institute for internal combustion engines: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike'' – state scientific research institute for electronics:''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota'' - civil air fleet scientific research institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash'' - scientific research institute for KhIMMash: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostroyeniya'' - scientific research institute for fine instruments: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya'' - scientific research institute for radio equipment: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov'' - scientific research institute for fine instruments: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel'' – air force scientific research institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii'' – Red Army air force scientific research institute: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skoye Otdeleniye (Otdel) '' – research division (section): ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Tsentr Elektronno-Vychislitel'skiy Tekhniki'' – electronic/computing equipment research centre: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil'' - people's commissariat for the Soviet air force: ''Narodnyy Komissariat/Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Komitet Upravleniya Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil'' - people's Scientific committee/Scientific technical committee of the Soviet air force directorate: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti'' - people's commissariat for aviation industry: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Boyepripasov'' – people's commissariat of ordnance: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti'' -  people's commissariat for electrical engineering: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony'' - people's commissariat for defence: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony Promyshlennosti'' - people's commissariat for defence industry: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Tyazheloy Promyshlennosti'' - people's commissariat for heavy industry: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del'' - people's commissariat for internal affairs 1934-46 became MVD: ''Narodnyy Komissariat po Voenim i Morskim Delam'' - people's commissariat for military and naval affairs: ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vneshney Torgovli'' - people's commissariat for foreign trade: ''Nauchno Opitniy Aerodrom'' - scientific experimental airfield: ''Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie'' – Scientific and production corporation: ''Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie Roodgeofizika'' – Scientific and production corporation Rudgeofizika: - Aeropower Research & Production Enterprise: ''Otdel Aerodinamicheskiy Letnykh Ispytaniy i Dovodok'' – department of aerodynamics, flight test and development: ''Obyedinennaya Aviastroitel'naya Korporatsiya'' – united aircraft manufacturing corporation:1. ''Obyedinyonnyy Aviaotryad'' – united flight detachment of a UGA:2. ''Otdel'nyy Aviaotryad'' – independent flight detachment government airline:3. ''Otkrytoye Aktsionehrnoye Obshchestvo Tupolev'' – Tupolev Public limited Company:4. ''OAO Ipromashprom'': ''Omskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye 'POLET''' - flight production association in Omsk: - society for aviation and gliding of Ukraine and Crimea: ''Obshchestvo Druzey Vozdushnogo Flota''- society of friends of the air fleet: ''Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie'' - united governmental political administration 1922-34 head Menzhinskii, became NKVD: Опытное конструкторское бюро - ''Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro'' – experimental design/construction bureau: ''Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Motorostroeniya'' – experimental design/construction bureau for motor construction (modern acronym): ''Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroeniya'' – experimental design/construction bureau for machine construction (early version of OKB): ''Opytno-konstruktorskoye'' - experimental design section Kiev  Tairov: ''Ordena Lenina Akademiya Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii'' – Leningrad Civil Aviation Academy decorated with the Order of Lenin: ''Opitno-Motorniy Otdel''- experimental motor department: - department of marine experimental aircraft construction: ''Otdel Neftyanikh Dvigateley''- department of crude oil engines: - department of special construction: ''Otdel Opytnogo Samolyetostroeniya'' - section for experimental aircraft construction: ''Opytnyy Otdel'' - experimental department: ''Obshchestvo Sodeystviya Aviatsii i Khimii''- society for assistance to aviation and chemical industry:: - department for special construction: ''Obshchestvo sodeystviya Oborone'' – Defence Enhancement Society: ''Otdel Sookhoputnykh Samolyotov'' - department for experimental land-plane construction: Osoboe tekhnicheskoe byuro po voennym izobreteniyam spetsialnogo naznacheniya (Особое техническое бюро по военным изобретениям специального назначения) special technical bureau for military inventions: ''Obshchestvo Spasaniya na Vodakh'' – Nautical Rescue Agency: ''Osoboe Technicheskoye Byuro'' – special technical bureau: ''Otdel Tekhnologicheskikh Laboratoriy'' – technical laboratories section: - department of war intervention of RKKA: ''Polyarnaya Aviatsiya'' – polar aviation: ''Polyarnyy Institut Morskovo Rybnovo Khozyaystva I Okeanografii'' – polar institute of oceanic fishery and oceanography: ''Permskoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye Motorostroyeniya'' – Perm engine production association: ''Soviet Voennoy Promishlennostii'' – council of the defence industry: ''Russkii Aviatsonniy Motor'' – Russian aviation motor: ''Rusko-Baltiyskiy Vagonniy Zavod'' – Russo-Baltic Wagon Factory: ''Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet'' – revolutionary military council: ''Raschetno-Ispyatelnoye Byuro'' – Calculation and Testing Office: ''Rizhskiy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy'' – Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute: ''Rybinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Motorostroyeniya'' – Rybinsk motor constructors burea: ''Rizhskiy Krasnoznamennyy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii'' – Red Banner institute of civil aviation engineers: ''Raboche-Krestyanskoy Krasnoy Armii - Vozdushniy Flot'' – ''Workers' and peasants' red army air fleet'': ''Raketnyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut'' - reaction engine scientific research institute: ''Rossiyskoye Oboronnoye Sportivno-tekhnicheskoye Obschchestvo'' – russian Defence Sports and Technical Society Post USSR split: ''Ramenskoye Priborno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' – Ramenskoye instrument design bureau: - Russian Federation: ''Rossiyskaya Samolyotostroitel'naya Korporatsiya'' – Russia aircraft construction corporation MiG: ''Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet'' (or ''Revvoensovet'') – revolutionary military council: ''Sibirskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsii'' – Siberian aeronautical research institute:1. ''Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' – special design/construction bureau:2. ''Studencheskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' - student construction bureau:3. ''Syerinoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' – series design/construction bureau: ''Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Rotorno-Porshnevikh Dvigateley Volzhskogo Avtomobilnogo Zavoda'' – special design/construction bureau for Wankel rotary engines of the Volga automoile factory: ''Stupinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya'' – Stupino Machinery Design Bureau: ''Seriyno-Konstruktorskiy Otdel'' – Production Design Department: ''Samolyet Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut'' - aeroplane scientific research institute GVF: ''Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov'' – council of peoples commissars – soviet government: ''Sektor Opytnogo Stroitel'stva'' – prototype construction section: ''Sovet Narodnikh Komissarov'' – council of people's commissars: ''Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva'' –council of national economy: ''Severnyy Polyus'' – north pole: ''Sovet Truda i Oboroni'' – council of labour and defence: ''Tashkentskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye'' – Tashkent aircraft production association: ''Tul'skoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' – Tula design bureau: ''Taganrogskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod Imeni Georgiya Dimitrova'' – Taganrog Machinery plant no.86 named after  Gheorgiya Dimitriova: ''Tekhnicheskiy Otdel Ekonomicheskogo Upravleniya Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie'' - technical department of the economic directorate of the special governmental political administration:''Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т (ЦАГИ) Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut'', the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: ''Tsentral'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Gidrodinamicheskiy Institut''- central aerodynamics and hydrodynamics institute – may be written CAHI as an acronym of English words: ''Tsentral'naya Aerologicheskaya Observatoriya'' – central aerologic observatory: ''Tsentral'nyy Institut Aviatsionnovo Motorostroyeniya'' - central institute of aviation motors – may be written CIAM as an acronym of English words. : ''Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro'' - central construction bureau: ''Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro 29 Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del '' - NKVD central construction bureau 29: ''Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro  Glahvnoye Oopravleniye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti'' - central construction bureau  main directorate of aviation industry: ''TsKB Morskogo Samoletostroyeniya'' – central seaplane design bureau: ''Tsentral'naya Laboratoriya Spasatel'noy Tekhniki'' – central laboratory for new types of rescue equipment: ''Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut'' – ministry of defence central scientific research diesel institute: ''Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut'' – ministry of defence central scientific research institute: ''Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut CherMet'' – central scientific research institute of Ferrous Metals: ''Tsentral'noye Upravleniye Mezhdunarodnykh Vozdushnykh Soobshcheniy'' – central directorate for international services: ''Tushinsky mashinostroitelny Zavod'' – Tushino engineering works: ''Upravleniye Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii'' – Civil Aviation Directorate: ''Ukrainskiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya'' – Ukrainian institute of internal combustion engines: ''Ukrainskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aviadizelniy Institut'' – Ukrainian scientific research aviation diesel institute: - training centre: ''U K Grazdanskovo Vozdushnogo Flota'' - training centre for civil air fleet: see UVP: -: - control board of navy: - special work control: ''Upravleniye Uchebnykh Zavedeniy'' – Training Establishments Directorate: ''Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota'' – Training Establishment of the Soviet Air force fleet: ''Ukrvosdukhput'' – Ukrainian airline: ''Vsesoyuznoye Aviatsionnnoye Ob'yedineniye'' - all-union aircraft production association: ''Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov'' - all-union institute for aviation materials: ''Vsesoyuznyy Institut Legkikh Splavov'' – All-Union Institute of Light-Alloys: ''Vintomotorniy Otdel'' – propeller and motor department: ''Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut'' – All-Union Scientific research diesel Institute: ''Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Motornoy Promishlennosti'' –All-Union Scientific research institute of the engine industry: ''Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Radioelektroniki I Avtomatiki'' – all-union electronics and automatic equipment research institute: - Voronezh engine design bureau:1. ''Voyenno-Promyshlennaya Komissya'' – commission on military-industrial matters:2. ''Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks'' – defence industry complex: ''Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye'' – defence industry complex - Moscow aircraft production association defence industry complex: ''Visshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva'' -supreme council of the people's economy: - internal prison: ''Zaporozhskoye Motorno-Konstrooktorskoye Byuro 'Progress''' – Preogress Zaporozhskoye engine design bureau: ''Zavod Opytno-konstruktorskoye'' - factory for special construction / experimental designs (interpretation unclear)
Military units : - airborne forces of VVS: ''Aviatsionnyy Diviziya'' - fighter air division: ''Aviatsiya Dal'nevo Deystviya'' - long range aviation: ''AviaDiveeziya Osobvo Naznacheniya'' – special mission air division: ''Aviaeskadril'ya'' - air squadron: ''Aviatsionnaya Ispytatel'naya Stantsiya, Morskaya Vedomsfva'' - naval air test station: ''A Maksim Gorkii'' - propaganda squadron: ''Aviatsionnyy Polk Istrebiteley Bombardirovshchikov'' – fighter-bomber regiment: ''Aviatsionnyy Polk Samolyetov-Zaprahvshchikov'' – aerial refuelling regiment: ''Aviaotryad'' - air detachment: ''Aviatsiya Voyenno-Morskogo Flota'' - naval aviation:''Blizhne-bombardirovochnyye Polki'' - short range bomber air regiment: ''Bombardirovchnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' - bomber regiment: ''Dahl'nyaya Aviahtsiya'' - long-range aviation became ADD: (Russian:фронтовой авиации) ''Frontovaya Aviatsiya'' – frontal aviation tactical aviation of VVS: ''Gvardeyskiy istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' – Guards fighter regiment: ''Gvardeyskiy Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' – guards independent composite air regiment: ''Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' – guards heavy bomber regiment:''Inzhenerno-Aviatcionaya Sluzhba'' - Soviet and Russian Air Force acquisition and maintenance service: ''Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Brigahda'' - fighter brigade: ''Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya'' - fighter air division: ''Istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' - fighter regiment: ''Istrebitel'naya Aviahtsiya - Protivovozdushnaya Oborona''  - manned fighter branch of PVO: ''Leningradskaya Krasnoznamennaya Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya'' – Leningrad red banner military air academy: ''Morskaya Aviahtsiya'' - naval aviation became AV-MF: ''Mestnaya Protivovozdushnaya Oborona'' – local air defence forces: ''Minno-torpednyi Aviatsionnyi Polk'' – minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment: ''Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii i Uchebno-Trenirovchnnyi Kompleks'' – R&D and training complex ground facility for carrier arresting landings trials and training : ''Otdel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Otryad'' – independent flight detachment: ''otdel'naya Dahl'nyaya Razvedyvatel'naya Aviaeskadril'ya'' Independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron: - independent naval aviation group: ''Otdel'nyy Minno-Torpednyy AviaPolk'' – independent minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment: ''Otdel'nyy Protivolodochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk Dahl'nevo Deystviya'' – independent long-range ASW regiment: ''Otdel'naya  Protivolodochnaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya'' – independent ASW squadron Independent ASW Air Squadron: ''Otdel'naya Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya'' – composite air squadron: ''Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy polk'' – composite air regiment: ''Protivovozdushnaya Oborona'' – air defence forces: ''Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya'' – workers and peasants Red Army: ''Shturmovaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya'' – Ground attack air division: ''Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Korpoos'' – Ground attack air corps: ''Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Polk'' – Ground attack air regiment: ''Shkola Mladshikh Aviatsionnykh Spetsialistov'' – junior aviation specialists school: ''Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya'' – composite air division: ''Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Polk'' – composite air regiment: ''Stavka'' – Supreme High Command: ''Severnaya Gruppa Voysk'' – Northern Group of Forces : ''Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviapolk'' – heavy bomber regiment: ''Transportno-Desantnaya Aviatsiya'' – transport and assault aviation: ''Tsentr Boyevoy Podogotovki i  Pereuchivaniya Letnogo Sostava'' – combat & conversion training centre: ''Tsentrahl'naya Grooppa Voysk'' – Central forces Group: ''Tambovskoye Vyssheye Voyennoye Aviatsionnoye Oochilishche Lyotchikov'' – Tambov higher military pilot school: ''Oochebnyy AviaPolk'' – instructional regiment: ''Unifitsirovanny Blok'' – unified unit: ''Uchebnyy Istrebitel'nyy AviaPolk'' – instructional fighter regiment: ''Upravleniye Opytnovo Stroitel'stva Aviatsionnoy Tekhniki'' – Soviet Ari force experimental aircraft construction department: ''Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Flota'' - administration of the military air fleet: ''Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Seely'' - administration of the VVS/ air force directorate: ''Vozdushnaya Armiya'' – Air Army: ''Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska'' – airborne troops: ''Voenno-morskoj flot'' - Naval Fleet'' Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР,'': ''Voyenno-Transportnaya Aviahtsiya'' – military transport aviation: ''Voynno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya'' - VVS academy Zhukovskii: ''Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Lyotchikov'' – military flying college: ''Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Shturmanov'' – Military Navigator College: ''Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota'' - Air Forces : - VVA engineering academy: ''Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily'' - Soviet air force: ''Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya'' - Soviet air force of the Workers'and peasants'red army: ''Yuzhnaya Gruppa Voysk'' – Southern forces Group: ''Zapasnoy  Aviatsionnyy/Aviapolk'' – reserve air/fighter regiment: ''Zapadnaya Gruppa Voysk'' – Western Group of Forces: ''Zavod Opitnikh Konstruktsiy'' – factory of experimental designs
Soviet military academies ;"ACEC" Moscow Military School;A. Mozhaysky Military Space Academy;A.S. Popov Naval Radioelectronics Institute;Academy of the General Staff;Admiral F.F. Ushakov Baltic Naval Institute;Admiral P.S. Nakhimov Naval School  (Leningrad-1944, Tbilisi-1944, and Riga-1945);Armed Forces Academy of Humanities;Budyonny Military Academy of Communications ();Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (), (:ru:Общевойсковая академия Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации);Combined Arms Academy;Combined Arms Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-Military Engineering Forces Institute;Dzerzhinsky Military Academy ();F. Derzhinskiy Higher Naval Engineering School;Felix Dzerzhinsky Military Rocket Forces Academy;Felix E. Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy (Артиллерийская академия имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского);Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov Moscow Military Music School;Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy;Gagarin Air Force Academy In 2008, it has been amalgamated with the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. Joint academy was named Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy;General of the Army A. V. Khruleva Military Academy of Rear Services and Transportation  ();General Staff Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;Higher Naval Engineering School;Kronshtadt Naval Cadet Corps;J.V. Stalin Academy;Kalinin Artillery Military Academy;Khabarovsk Military Commanders Training Academy;Kharkiv Military University;Kharkiv National University of the Ukrainian Air Force;Kuybyshev Military Medical Academy;Leningrad Military Academy of Physical Fitness "General Staff of the Armed Forces";Leningrad Nikolaevsky Military Engineering Technical Institute of the Armed Forces of the USSR;Leninskiy Komsomol Submarine Navigation High Naval School;M. V. Frunze High Naval School   ;M. V. Frunze Military Academy;Malinovsky Academy;Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky Military Academy of the Army Air Defense Corps ();Marshal Rodion Malinovsky Military Armoured Forces Academy ();Marshal A.A. Grechko Naval Academy;Marshal Georgy Zhukov Command Academy of the Air Defense Forces;Marshal of the Soviet Union L.A. Govorov Air Defense Radio Engineering Academy ();Marshal Semyon Budyonny Military Signals and Communications Academy;Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control ();Mikhail Kalinin Military Artillery Academy;Kalinin Artillery Military Academy ();Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (Михайловская артиллерийская академия);Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy ();Military Artillery Academy "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich";Military Air Combat Training Centers:Center of Frontline Aviation, Lipetsk Air Base:Center of Air Defense Aviation, Savasleika  Саваслейка):Center of Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy, Ostrov (air base), near Pskov:Center of Long Range Aviation, Dyagilevo;Military Educational and Scientific Center (Russ. ВУНЦ) Note: Military Educational and Scientific Center (MESC) is a type of the institution, not a single military entity. E.g. " Russian Air Force MESC Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy". About 10 MESCs were established 2000s. ;Military Engineering University of St. Petersburg;Military Engineering-Technical University ();Military Institute of Foreign Languages now part of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation;Military Technical Academy;Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation (Военный университет Министерства обороны Российской Федерации);Ministry of Defence Institute;Ministry of Emergency Situations Civil Defence Academy;Ministry of the Interior of Russia High Command Academy;Moscow Felix Dzerzhinsky Federal Security Service Academy;Moscow High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic";Moscow Military Commanders Training School;Moscow Military Institute of the Russian FSS;Moscow Military School of Infantry Training;Moscow Military SchoolMVD Central School;Naval Engineering Institute;Nikolaevsky Military Engineering-Technical Institute of the Armed Forces;Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy ();Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force *  Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force (official Web Site) ;Peter the Great Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute;Red Army Military Technical Academy;RKKA Military Academy;S.O. Makarov Pacific Naval Institute;School of Mathematics and Navigational Sciences;Sergei Kirov Military Medical Academy;St. Peterburg Military Engineering-Technical University;St. Petersburg Military Academy of Physical Fitness Culture and Sports;St. Petersburg Military Institute of Civil Defence of the Ministry of Emergency Situations;St. Petersburg MVD Internal Troops Military Institute;St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Fleet Admiral Of the Soviet Union N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy;V.I. Lenin Political-Military Academy ;Valerian Kuybyshev Military Engineering Academy;Volsk Military Rear Services Training School;WPRA 1st Soviet High Military School "All-Russian Central Executive Committee'';WPRA Academy of Mechanized and Motorized Service;Yekaterinburg Force Command School of Artillery;Yuri Gagarin Military Air Academy ;Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy In 2008, it has been amalgamated with the Gagarin Air Force Academy. Joint academy was named Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy;Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy;Kirov Military Medical Academy ()
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