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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.
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Organisations
- Аэрогеология
- Aero-geological Industrial Association
- Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya - 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: Конструкторское бюро химического машиностроения имени A. M. Исаева)
- 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 – 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 2. Otdel'nyy Aviaotryad – independent flight detachment
- 3. Otkrytoye Aktsionehrnoye Obshchestvo – 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 – central scientific research diesel institute
- Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut – 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 – Preogress Zaporozhskoye engine design bureau
- Zavod Opytno-konstruktorskoye - factory for special construction / experimental designs (interpretation unclear)
Military units
- A-VDV
- - airborne forces of VVS
- AD
- Aviatsionnyy Diviziya - fighter air division
- ADD
- Aviatsiya Dal'nevo Deystviya - long range aviation
- ADON
- AviaDiveeziya Osobvo Naznacheniya – special mission air division
- AE
- Aviaeskadril'ya - air squadron
- AIS
- Aviatsionnaya Ispytatel'naya Stantsiya, Morskaya Vedomsfva - naval air test station
- AMG
- A Maksim Gorkii - propaganda squadron
- APIB
- Aviatsionnyy Polk Istrebiteley Bombardirovshchikov – fighter-bomber regiment
- APSZ
- Aviatsionnyy Polk Samolyetov-Zaprahvshchikov – aerial refuelling regiment
- AT
- Aviaotryad - air detachment
- AV-MF
- Aviatsiya Voyenno-Morskogo Flota - naval aviation
- BBAP
- Blizhne-bombardirovochnyye Polki - short range bomber air regiment
- BAP
- Bombardirovchnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - bomber regiment
- DA
- Dahl'nyaya Aviahtsiya - long-range aviation became ADD
- FA
- (Russian:фронтовой авиации) Frontovaya Aviatsiya – frontal aviation tactical aviation of VVS
- GvIAP
- Gvardeyskiy istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Guards fighter regiment
- GvOSAP
- Gvardeyskiy Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards independent composite air regiment
- GvTBAP
- Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards heavy bomber regiment
- IAS
- Inzhenerno-Aviatcionaya Sluzhba - Soviet and Russian Air Force acquisition and maintenance service
- IAB
- Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Brigahda - fighter brigade
- IAD
- Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya - fighter air division
- IAP
- Istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - fighter regiment
- IA-VPO
- Istrebitel'naya Aviahtsiya - Protivovozdushnaya Oborona - manned fighter branch of PVO
- LK VVIA
- Leningradskaya Krasnoznamennaya Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya – Leningrad red banner military air academy
- MA
- Morskaya Aviahtsiya - naval aviation became AV-MF
- MPVO
- Mestnaya Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – local air defence forces
- MTAP
- Minno-torpednyi Aviatsionnyi Polk – minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment
- NIUTK
- Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii i Uchebno-Trenirovchnnyi Kompleks – R&D and training complex ground facility for carrier arresting landings trials and training
- OAO
- Otdel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Otryad – independent flight detachment
- ODRAE
- otdel'naya Dahl'nyaya Razvedyvatel'naya Aviaeskadril'ya Independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron
- OMAG
- - independent naval aviation group
- OMTAP
- Otdel'nyy Minno-Torpednyy AviaPolk – independent minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment
- OPLAP DD
- Otdel'nyy Protivolodochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk Dahl'nevo Deystviya – independent long-range ASW regiment
- OPLAE
- Otdel'naya Protivolodochnaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – independent ASW squadron Independent ASW Air Squadron
- OSAE
- Otdel'naya Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – composite air squadron
- OSAP
- Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy polk – composite air regiment
- PVO
- Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – air defence forces
- RKKA
- Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya – workers and peasants Red Army
- ShAD
- Shturmovaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – Ground attack air division
- ShAK
- Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Korpoos – Ground attack air corps
- ShAP
- Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Ground attack air regiment
- ShMAS
- Shkola Mladshikh Aviatsionnykh Spetsialistov – junior aviation specialists school
- SmAD
- Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – composite air division
- SmAP
- Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Polk – composite air regiment
- Stavka
- Stavka – Supreme High Command
- SGV
- Severnaya Gruppa Voysk – Northern Group of Forces
- TBAP
- Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviapolk – heavy bomber regiment
- TDA
- Transportno-Desantnaya Aviatsiya – transport and assault aviation
- TsBP i PLS
- Tsentr Boyevoy Podogotovki i Pereuchivaniya Letnogo Sostava – combat & conversion training centre
- TsGV
- Tsentrahl'naya Grooppa Voysk – Central forces Group
- TVVAUL
- Tambovskoye Vyssheye Voyennoye Aviatsionnoye Oochilishche Lyotchikov – Tambov higher military pilot school
- UAP
- Oochebnyy AviaPolk – instructional regiment
- UB
- Unifitsirovanny Blok – unified unit
- UIAP
- Uchebnyy Istrebitel'nyy AviaPolk – instructional fighter regiment
- UOSAT
- Upravleniye Opytnovo Stroitel'stva Aviatsionnoy Tekhniki – Soviet Ari force experimental aircraft construction department
- UVVF
- Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Flota - administration of the military air fleet
- UVVS
- Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Seely - administration of the VVS/ air force directorate
- VA
- Vozdushnaya Armiya – Air Army
- VDV
- Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska – airborne troops
- V-MF
- Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР,
- V-TA
- Voyenno-Transportnaya Aviahtsiya – military transport aviation
- VVA
- Voynno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya - VVS academy Zhukovskii
- VVAUL
- Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Lyotchikov – military flying college
- VVAUSh
- Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Shturmanov – Military Navigator College
- VVF
- Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota - Air Forces
- VVIA
- - VVA engineering academy
- VVS
- Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily - Soviet air force
- VVS RKKA
- Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya - Soviet air force of the Workers'and peasants'red army
- YuGV
- Yuzhnaya Gruppa Voysk – Southern forces Group
- ZAP
- Zapasnoy Aviatsionnyy/Aviapolk – reserve air/fighter regiment
- ZGV
- Zapadnaya Gruppa Voysk – Western Group of Forces
- ZOK
- Zavod Opitnikh Konstruktsiy – factory of experimental designs
- Admiral P.S. Nakhimov Naval School (Leningrad-1944, Tbilisi-1944, and Riga-1945)
- Budyonny Military Academy of Communications (Военная академия связи им. С. М. Буденного)
- Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Russian
- Общевойсковая академия Вооруженных сил Российской Федерации), (ru:Общевойсковая академия Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации)
- Dzerzhinsky Military Academy (Russian
- Военная академия им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского)
- Felix E. Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy (Артиллерийская академия имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского)
- 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 (Военная академия тыла и транспорта)
- Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky Military Academy of the Army Air Defense Corps (Военная академия войсковой противовоздушной обороны им. А. М. Василевского)
- Marshal Rodion Malinovsky Military Armoured Forces Academy (Военная академия бронетанковых войск им. Р. Я. Малиновского)
- Marshal of the Soviet Union L.A. Govorov Air Defense Radio Engineering Academy (Russian
- Военная инженерная радиотехническая академия им. Маршала Советского Союза Говорова Л.А.)
- Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control (Военная академия химической защиты им. С. К. Тимошенко)
- Kalinin Artillery Military Academy (Военная артиллерийская академия им. М. И. Калинина)
- 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 Institute of Foreign Languages now part of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation
- Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation (Военный университет Министерства обороны Российской Федерации)
- Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (Военно-воздушная инженерная академия имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского)
- Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force * Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force (official Web Site) (in Russian)
- St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Fleet Admiral Of the Soviet Union N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy
- Yuri Gagarin Military Air Academy Main article: Gagarin Air Force 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
Soviet military academies
Russian: ЦБПиПЛС - Центры боевого применения и переучивания личного состава // Tsentry boyevogo primenyeniya i pereuchivaniya lichnogo sostava
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