Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Organisations

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

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Aerogeologiya

- Аэрогеология

Aero-geological Industrial Association[1]
AGOS
[otdel] Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya - [section for] aviation, hydro-aviation and experimental construction[2]
AKDON
Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya - Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division
Amtorg
- organisation for importing and licensing American products[3]
ANPK MiG
Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-proizvodstvennyy Kompleks MIG – aviation science and production complex MiG[4][5]
ANTK
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Aviation scientific-technical complex[3]
ANTK Tupolev
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Tupolev aviation scientific-technical complex[6]
ARZ
AviaRemontnyy Zavod – aircraft repair factory[4]
AVF
Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota – air fleet academy
Aviaarktika
– independent Arctic directorate of Aeroflot[3]
Aviaeskadril'ya
– squadron part of an LO[1]
Aviaeksport
- all-union aviation export agency[1]
Aviakhim
Aviatsiya i Khimiya - Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Soviet Aircraft and Chemical Industry[4][7]
AVIAVnito
– Vnito aviation department of the all-union scientific and technical research organisation[3]
Aviatrest
Gosudarstvenniy Trest Aviatsionniy Promishlennosti - State Aviation Industry Trust[7]
Aviatrust
- central aviation management organisation Sept 1923[3]
BNK
Byuro Novykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of new designs[3]
BNT
Byuro Novoy Tekhniki - bureau of new technology[3] NKAP
BOK
Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of special design[8]
CAHI
– see TsAGI
CCB
– see TsKB
CIAM
– see TsIAM
CNII
– see TsNII
CUMVS
– see TsUMVS
Cheka
– secret police 1918-22 became OGPU[3]
DEKA
- (Dyuflon & Konstaninovich factory)[3]
Deruluft
- Deutsche Russki Air[3] German/Russian airline 1922
DMZ
Dolgoprudnenskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory[9]
Dobrolyet
[3] Russian airline 1922
DOSAAF
Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu - voluntary society for assistance to the army, air force and navy[2]
EMZ
Eksperimentahl'nyy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod - experimental machinery factory[10]
FAPSI
Federal'noye Agentstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svyazi i Informatsii – federal agency of government communications and information[4]
FLA RF
Federatsiya Lyubiteley Aviatsii Rossiyskoy Federatsii – aviation enthusiasts federation of Russia[4]
GAZ
Gosudarstvenny Aviatsionnyy Zavod – state aviation plant/factory[3]
GDL
Gazodinamicheskaya Laboratoriya - Gas Dynamics Laboratory[3][11]
GEEI
Gosudarstvenny Elektro-Energeticheskiy Institut - State Institute of Electricity and Energy[7]
GIRD
Gosudarstvenny Institoot po Raketnoy Dvigatel'naya - group for studying reaction engines[3][11]
GIRT
Gosudarstvenny Institut po Raketnoy Tekhnike – state institute for rocket technology[11]
GK NII VVS
Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state red banner air forces research institute[5]
GKAP
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - state committee on aviation industry[3]
GKAT
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike - state committee on aircraft technology[2][7][12]
GKO
Gosudarstvenniy Komitet Oborony - state defence committee[5][7]
GKRE
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Rahdioelektronike – state committee for electronic equipment
Glavkoavia
Glavnoe Pravlenie Obédinennikh Aviapromishlennikh – Chief Directorate of united aviation industry factories[3][7]
Glavsyevmorput
– Main Directorate of northern sea routes[3]
GLITs
Gosudarstvenny Lyotno-Ispytahtel'nyy Tsentr – state flight test centre[5] formerly GNIKI VVS
GNIKI VVS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'ny Krasnoznamenny Institut VVS – State research test institute for the air forces[2]
GosNII AS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Sistem - state scientific research institute for aircraft systems[5]
GosNII GA
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state scientific research institute for civil aviation[8] replaced Gos NII GVF
GosNII GVF
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific research institute for civil air fleet[3]
GosNII VVS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state air forces research institute[10]
GosNIPAS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'nyy Poligon Aviatsionnykh System - state research and test range for aircraft systems[5]
GOST
Gosudarstvenny Standart - state standard[7]
GOZ
Gosudarstvenny Optnyy Zavod – State Experimental Plant[13]
GROS
- civil experimental aeroplane construction[3]
GSOKB
Gosudarstvennoye Soyooznoye Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – State Union experimental design/construction bureau[9][14]
GSPI-7
GSPI-7 institute
GSZ
Gosudarstvennyy Soyuznyy Zavod – State Union factory[15]
GUAP

- ГУАП[16]

Главное управление авиационной промышленности - Glavnoye upravleniye uviatsionnoy promyshlennosti - Chief directorate of the aviation industry[3]
GU GVF

- ГУ ГВФ[17]

Главное управление гражданского воздушного флота - Glavnoye upravleniye grazhdanskovo vozdushnogo flota – Chief directorate of the civil air fleet[3]
GU SMP
Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti- main directorate of the northern sea route[3]
GU VP
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno Promishlennosti- main directorate of military industry[7]
GU VVS
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil- main directorate of air force[3]
GVF
Grazdanskiy Vozdushniy Flot- civil air fleet[3]
IAM
– see TsIAM
IMET
- metallurgical institute[6]
IPE
Institut Promishlennoy Energetiki - institute of industrial power engineering[7]
KAI
- Kazan aviation institute[2]
KB KhIMMASH
- A. M. Isayev Chemical Engineering Design Bureau (Russian: Конструкторское бюро химического машиностроения имени A. M. Исаева)
KBR
Konstruktorskoye Byuro Radiostroyeniya – experimental design/construction bureau
KB VT
Konstruktorskoye Byuro 'Vnutrenn'aya Tyur'ma - Internal Prison Design Bureau[15]
KGB
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti – state security committee[5]
KhAI
Kharkovskii Aviatsionny Institut - Kharkov aviation institute[2]
KhTZ
Kharkovskii Traktorniy Zavod - Kharkov tractor factory[7]
KiAPO
Kievskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Kiev Aircraft Production Association[1]
KiAZ
Kievskiy Aviazavod – Kiev Aircraft Factory[1]
KIIGA
- Kiev Institute of civil aviation engineering[3]
KMPO
Kazanskoe Motorostroitelnoe Proizvodsvennoe Obédinenie - Kazan Engine-building production Enterprise[7]
KMZ
'Trood' Kiyevskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod 'Trud' - 'Labour' Kiev Manufacturing plant[1]
KO
Komitet Oboroni - defence committee[7]
KOMTA
Komissiya po Tyazhyeloi Aviatsii - commission for heavy aviation[3]
Komsomol
Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi - young communists union[3]
KOMZ
Krasnogorskiy Optiko-Mekhanicheskiy Zavod – Krasnogorsk optics and machinery plant[5]
KOSOS
Konstruktorskiy Otdel Sektora Opytnogo Stroitel'stva - section of experimental aeroplane construction[2]
LIG
Leningrahdskiy Institut Grazhdahnskovo [vozdooshnovo flota] – Leningrad Civil Air Fleet Institute[9]
LII (or LII NKAP)
Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut (Letno-issledovatelʹskiy institut, Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti) - flight research institute (of the state commissariat for aviation industry)[2][11]
LIiDB
Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza – design bureau flight test and mod facility[2]
LIIPS
- Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers[3]
LNPO Leninets
Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association [6]
LO
Letnyy Otryad – flight detachment [of an OAO][3]
MAI
Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut imeny Sergo Ordjoniidze - Moscow aviation institute (named after Sergo Ordjoniidze) [2]
MAP
Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry[2][18][19]
MAPO MiG
Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Moscow aircraft production association MiG[5]
MARZ
Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant[9]
MATI
Moskovskii Aviatsionii Technologicheskii Institut - Moscow aviation technological institute[3]
MchS Rossii
- EMERCOM Russia[8]
MGA
Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii – ministry of civil aviation[8]
MGVF
Ministerstvo Grazdanskogo Vozdooshnogo Flota - ministry of civil aviation[3]
MIREA
- Moscow institute of electronics[6]
MMKB
Moskovskoye Mashinostroitel'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Moscow mechanical engineering design bureau[5]
MMZ
Moskovskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Moscow machine-building plant[13]
MNIIP
Moskovskiy Naoochno-Issledovatel'sky Institoot Priborostroyeniya – Moscow research institute of instrument engineering[4][19]
MosGIRD
Moskovskaya Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya - Moscow group for studying reactive movement
MOM
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Mashinostroyeniya – ministry of general machinery[1]
MOP
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of defence industry[8]
MOS VAO
- all-union association for experimental marine aircraft[3]
MRP
Ministerstvo Rahdioelektronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of electronics industry[5]
MVD
- ministry for internal affairs[3] 1946-53
MVK NLGS
Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya [po soglasovaniyu] Norm Lyotnoy Godnosti Samolyotov – inter-department airworthiness regulations co-ordinating commission[6]
MVTU
Moskva Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye - Moscow higher technical school[20]
NAL
Nauchno-Avtomobilnaya Laboratoriya - scientific auto-mobile laboratory[7]
NAMI
Nauchnyy avtomotornyy Institut - scientific auto-motor institute[4][7]
NAPO
Novosibirskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvenniye Obyedineniye – Novosibirsk aircraft production association[19]
Narkomavprom
- supreme directorate of aviation industry [became GUAP]
NAZ
Nizhegorodskiy AviaZavod – Nizhniy Novgorod aircraft factory[5]
NIAI
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institut - scientific research aero-institute
NIAT
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy – scientific research institute of aviation technologies[5]
NIEI PDS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy i Eksperimenahl'nyy Institut Parashootnodesahntnykh Sistem – Parachute Delivery systems Research and Experimental Institute[1]
NI PAV
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Poligon Aviatsionnogo Vooruzheniya - research test range of aircraft armament
NII
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - scientific research institute[3] more than 30 such as NII VVS,
NII AO
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnogo Oborudovaniya – avionics scientific research institute
NII AS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnykh Sistem – aircraft systems scientific research institute[4]
NII AD GVF
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute for aero-engines[7]
NII DVS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya - scientific research institute for internal combustion engines[7]
NII GKRE
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike – state scientific research institute for electronics[8]
NII GVF
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute[7]
NIIKhIMMash
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash - scientific research institute for KhIMMash
NII P
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostroyeniya - scientific research institute for fine instruments[5]
NII R
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya - scientific research institute for radio equipment[5]
NII TP
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov - scientific research institute for fine instruments[4]
NII VVS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel – air force scientific research institute[2]
NII VVS KA
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii – Red Army air force scientific research institute[21]
NIO
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skoye Otdeleniye (Otdel) – research division (section)[5]
NITsEVT
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Tsentr Elektronno-Vychislitel'skiy Tekhniki – electronic/computing equipment research centre[5]
NK VVS
Narodnyy Komissariat Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's commissariat for the Soviet air force[15]
NK/NTK UVVS
Narodnyy Komissariat/Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Komitet Upravleniya Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's Scientific committee/Scientific technical committee of the Soviet air force directorate[7]
NKAP
Narodnyy Komissariat Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for aviation industry[3][22]
NKB
Narodnyy Komissariat Boyepripasov – people's commissariat of ordnance[11]
NKEP
Narodnyy Komissariat Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for electrical engineering[11]
NKO
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony - people's commissariat for defence[8]
NKOP
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for defence industry[3][7]
NKTP
Narodnyy Komissariat Tyazheloy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for heavy industry[2]
NKVD
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - people's commissariat for internal affairs[3] 1934-46 became MVD
NKVM
Narodnyy Komissariat po Voenim i Morskim Delam - people's commissariat for military and naval affairs[7]
NKVT
Narodnyy Komissariat Vneshney Torgovli - people's commissariat for foreign trade[7]
NOA
Nauchno Opitniy Aerodrom - scientific experimental airfield[7]
NPO
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie – Scientific and production corporation[2]
NPO Roodgheofizika
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie Roodgeofizika – Scientific and production corporation Rudgeofizika[2]
NPP Aerosila
- Aeropower Research & Production Enterprise[1]
OALID
Otdel Aerodinamicheskiy Letnykh Ispytaniy i Dovodok – department of aerodynamics, flight test and development[2]
OAK
Obyedinennaya Aviastroitel'naya Korporatsiya – united aircraft manufacturing corporation[5]
OAO
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[6]
4. OAO Ipromashprom
OAPO
Omskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye 'POLET' - flight production association in Omsk[9]
OAVUK
- society for aviation and gliding of Ukraine and Crimea[3]
ODVF
Obshchestvo Druzey Vozdushnogo Flota- society of friends of the air fleet[7]
OGPU
Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie - united governmental political administration[3][7] 1922-34 head Menzhinskii, became NKVD
OKB
Опытное конструкторское бюро - Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – experimental design/construction bureau[2]
OKBM
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Motorostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for motor construction (modern acronym)[7]
OKBM
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for machine construction (early version of OKB)[7]
OKO
Opytno-konstruktorskoye - experimental design section[3] Kiev Tairov
OLAGA
Ordena Lenina Akademiya Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Leningrad Civil Aviation Academy decorated with the Order of Lenin[9]
OMO
Opitno-Motorniy Otdel- experimental motor department[3][7]
OMOS
- department of marine experimental aircraft construction[3]
OND
Otdel Neftyanikh Dvigateley- department of crude oil engines[7]
OOK
- department of special construction[3]
OOS
Otdel Opytnogo Samolyetostroeniya - section for experimental aircraft construction[3]
OPO
Opytnyy Otdel - experimental department[15]
Osoaviakhim
Obshchestvo Sodeystviya Aviatsii i Khimii- society for assistance to aviation and chemical industry[3][7]
OSGA
OSK
- department for special construction[3]
OSO
Obshchestvo sodeystviya Oborone – Defence Enhancement Society[4]
OSS
Otdel Sookhoputnykh Samolyotov - department for experimental land-plane construction[15]
Ostekhburo
Osoboe tekhnicheskoe byuro po voennym izobreteniyam spetsialnogo naznacheniya (Особое техническое бюро по военным изобретениям специального назначения) special technical bureau for military inventions[3]
OSVOD
Obshchestvo Spasaniya na Vodakh – Nautical Rescue Agency[9]
OTB
Osoboe Technicheskoye Byuro – special technical bureau[7]
OTL
Otdel Tekhnologicheskikh Laboratoriy – technical laboratories section[6]
OVI
- department of war intervention[3] of RKKA
PA
Polyarnaya Aviatsiya – polar aviation[8]
PINRO
Polyarnyy Institut Morskovo Rybnovo Khozyaystva I Okeanografii – polar institute of oceanic fishery and oceanography[8]
PPOM
Permskoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye Motorostroyeniya – Perm engine production association[5]
Promvoensovet
Soviet Voennoy Promishlennostii – council of the defence industry[7]
RAM
Russkii Aviatsonniy Motor – Russian aviation motor[7]
RBVZ
Rusko-Baltiyskiy Vagonniy Zavod – Russo-Baltic Wagon Factory[20]
Revvoensovet
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet – revolutionary military council[7]
RIB
Raschetno-Ispyatelnoye Byuro – Calculation and Testing Office[20]
RIIGA
Rizhskiy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy – Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute[9]
RKBM
Rybinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Motorostroyeniya – Rybinsk motor constructors burea[5]
RKIIGA
Rizhskiy Krasnoznamennyy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Red Banner institute of civil aviation engineers[8]
RKKVF
Raboche-Krestyanskoy Krasnoy Armii - Vozdushniy FlotWorkers' and peasants' red army air fleet[7]
RNII
Raketnyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - reaction engine scientific research institute[2]
ROSTO
Rossiyskoye Oboronnoye Sportivno-tekhnicheskoye Obschchestvo – russian Defence Sports and Technical Society[9] Post USSR split
RPKB
Ramenskoye Priborno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Ramenskoye instrument design bureau[5]
RSFSR
- Russian Federation[9]
RSK MiG
Rossiyskaya Samolyotostroitel'naya Korporatsiya – Russia aircraft construction corporation MiG[5]
RVS
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet (or Revvoensovet) – revolutionary military council[7]
SibNIA
Sibirskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsii – Siberian aeronautical research institute[4]
SKB
1. Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – special design/construction bureau[13]
2. Studencheskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - student construction bureau[9]
3. Syerinoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – series design/construction bureau[7]
SKB RPD VAZ
Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Rotorno-Porshnevikh Dvigateley Volzhskogo Avtomobilnogo Zavoda – special design/construction bureau for Wankel rotary engines of the Volga automoile factory[7]
SKBM
Stupinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya – Stupino Machinery Design Bureau[9]
SKO
Seriyno-Konstruktorskiy Otdel – Production Design Department[5]
SNII
Samolyet Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - aeroplane scientific research institute[3] GVF
SNK
Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov – council of peoples commissars[11] – soviet government
SOS
Sektor Opytnogo Stroitel'stva – prototype construction section[8]
Sovnarkhom
Sovet Narodnikh Komissarov – council of people's commissars[7]
Sovnarkhoz
Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva –council of national economy[7]
SP
Severnyy Polyus – north pole[4]
STO
Sovet Truda i Oboroni – council of labour and defence[7]
TAPO
Tashkentskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Tashkent aircraft production association[8]
TKB
Tul'skoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Tula design bureau[8]
TMZD
Taganrogskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod Imeni Georgiya Dimitrova – Taganrog Machinery plant no.86 named after Gheorgiya Dimitriova[8]
TO EKU (of) OGPU
Tekhnicheskiy Otdel Ekonomicheskogo Upravleniya Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie - technical department of the economic directorate of the special governmental political administration[7]
TsAGI
Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т (ЦАГИ) Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Tsentral'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Gidrodinamicheskiy Institut- central aerodynamics and hydrodynamics institute[2] – may be written CAHI as an acronym of English words
TsAO
Tsentral'naya Aerologicheskaya Observatoriya – central aerologic observatory
TsIAM
Tsentral'nyy Institut Aviatsionnovo Motorostroyeniya - central institute of aviation motors[2] – may be written CIAM as an acronym of English words.
TsKB
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - central construction bureau[3]
TsKB 29 NKVD
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro 29 Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - NKVD central construction bureau 29[3]
TsKB GUAP
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Glahvnoye Oopravleniye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - central construction bureau main directorate of aviation industry[15]
TsKB MS
TsKB Morskogo Samoletostroyeniya – central seaplane design bureau
TsLST
Tsentral'naya Laboratoriya Spasatel'noy Tekhniki – central laboratory for new types of rescue equipment[9]
TsNIDI
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research diesel institute[7]
TsNII
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research institute[5]
TsNIICherMet
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut CherMet – central scientific research institute of Ferrous Metals[6]
TsUMVS
Tsentral'noye Upravleniye Mezhdunarodnykh Vozdushnykh Soobshcheniy – central directorate for international services[8]
TMZ
Tushinsky mashinostroitelny Zavod – Tushino engineering works[2]
UGA
Upravleniye Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii – Civil Aviation Directorate[1]
UNIDVS
Ukrainskiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya – Ukrainian institute of internal combustion engines[7]
UNIADI
Ukrainskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aviadizelniy Institut – Ukrainian scientific research aviation diesel institute[7]
UK
- training centre[3]
UK GVF
U K Grazdanskovo Vozdushnogo Flota - training centre for civil air fleet
Ukrvosdukhput
see UVP[3]
UMKPA
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UMS
- control board of navy[3]
USR
- special work control[3]
UUZ
Upravleniye Uchebnykh Zavedeniy – Training Establishments Directorate[1]
UVVF
Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota – Training Establishment of the Soviet Air force fleet
UVP
Ukrvosdukhput – Ukrainian airline[3]
VAO
Vsesoyuznoye Aviatsionnnoye Ob'yedineniye - all-union aircraft production association[15]
VIAM
Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov - all-union institute for aviation materials[3]
VILS
Vsesoyuznyy Institut Legkikh Splavov – All-Union Institute of Light-Alloys[6]
VMO
Vintomotorniy Otdel – propeller and motor department[7]
VNIDI
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – All-Union Scientific research diesel Institute[7]
VNIImotoprom
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Motornoy Promishlennosti –All-Union Scientific research institute of the engine industry[7]
VNIIRA
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Radioelektroniki I Avtomatiki – all-union electronics and automatic equipment research institute[5]
VOKBM
- Voronezh engine design bureau[4]
VPK
1. Voyenno-Promyshlennaya Komissya – commission on military-industrial matters[4]
2. Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks – defence industry complex[5]
VPK MAPO
Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – defence industry complex - Moscow aircraft production association[5] defence industry complex[5]
VSNKh
Visshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva -supreme council of the people's economy[7]
VT
- internal prison[3]
ZMKB Progress
Zaporozhskoye Motorno-Konstrooktorskoye Byuro ['Progress'] – Preogress Zaporozhskoye engine design bureau[8]
ZOK
Zavod Opytno-konstruktorskoye - factory for special construction / experimental designs (interpretation unclear)[2]

Military units

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A-VDV
- airborne forces of VVS[3]
Aviatsionnyy Diviziya - fighter air division[15]
ADD
Aviatsiya Dal'nevo Deystviya - long range aviation[3]
ADON
AviaDiveeziya Osobvo Naznacheniya – special mission air division
AE
Aviaeskadril'ya - air squadron[15]
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[5]
APSZ
Aviatsionnyy Polk Samolyetov-Zaprahvshchikov – aerial refuelling regiment[8]
AT
Aviaotryad - air detachment[15]
AV-MF
Aviatsiya Voyenno-Morskogo Flota - naval aviation[3]
BBAP
Blizhne-bombardirovochnyye Polki - short range bomber air regiment[23]
BAP
Bombardirovchnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - bomber regiment[3]
DA
Dahl'nyaya Aviahtsiya - long-range aviation[4] became ADD
FA
(Russian:фронтовой авиации) Frontovaya Aviatsiya – frontal aviation[3] tactical aviation of VVS
GvIAP
Gvardeyskiy istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Guards fighter regiment[4]
GvOSAP
Gvardeyskiy Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards independent composite air regiment[8]
GvTBAP
Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards heavy bomber regiment[8]
IAS
Inzhenerno-Aviatcionaya Sluzhba - Soviet and Russian Air Force acquisition and maintenance service[23]
IAB
Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Brigahda - fighter brigade[15]
IAD
Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya - fighter air division[4]
IAP
Istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - fighter regiment[4]
IA-VPO
Istrebitel'naya Aviahtsiya - Protivovozdushnaya Oborona - manned fighter branch of PVO[3]
LK VVIA
Leningradskaya Krasnoznamennaya Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya – Leningrad red banner military air academy
MA
Morskaya Aviahtsiya - naval aviation[3] became AV-MF
MPVO
Mestnaya Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – local air defence forces[4]
MTAP
Minno-torpednyi Aviatsionnyi Polk – minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment[8]
NIUTK
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii i Uchebno-Trenirovchnnyi Kompleks – R&D and training complex[5] ground facility for carrier arresting landings trials and training
OAO
Otdel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Otryad – independent flight detachment[8]
ODRAE
otdel'naya Dahl'nyaya Razvedyvatel'naya Aviaeskadril'ya[1] Independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron
OMAG
- independent naval aviation group
OMTAP
Otdel'nyy Minno-Torpednyy AviaPolk – independent minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment[8]
OPLAP DD
Otdel'nyy Protivolodochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk Dahl'nevo Deystviya – independent long-range ASW regiment[8]
OPLAE
Otdel'naya Protivolodochnaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – independent ASW squadron[8] Independent ASW Air Squadron
OSAE
Otdel'naya Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – composite air squadron[1]
OSAP
Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy polk – composite air regiment[5]
PVO
Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – air defence forces[2]
RKKA
Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya – workers and peasants Red Army[2]
ShAD
Shturmovaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – Ground attack air division[8]
ShAK
Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Korpoos – Ground attack air corps[8]
ShAP
Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Ground attack air regiment[8]
ShMAS
Shkola Mladshikh Aviatsionnykh Spetsialistov – junior aviation specialists school[5]
SmAD
Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – composite air division[5]
SmAP
Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Polk – composite air regiment[15]
Stavka
Stavka – Supreme High Command
SGV
Severnaya Gruppa Voysk – Northern Group of Forces [1]
TBAP
Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviapolk – heavy bomber regiment[10]
TDA
Transportno-Desantnaya Aviatsiya – transport and assault aviation[8]
TsBP i PLS
Tsentr Boyevoy Podogotovki i Pereuchivaniya Letnogo Sostava – combat & conversion training centre[4]
TsGV
Tsentrahl'naya Grooppa Voysk – Central forces Group[1]
TVVAUL
Tambovskoye Vyssheye Voyennoye Aviatsionnoye Oochilishche Lyotchikov – Tambov higher military pilot school[8]
UAP
Oochebnyy AviaPolk – instructional regiment[1]
UB
Unifitsirovanny Blok – unified unit
UIAP
Uchebnyy Istrebitel'nyy AviaPolk – instructional fighter regiment[5]
UOSAT
Upravleniye Opytnovo Stroitel'stva Aviatsionnoy Tekhniki – Soviet Ari force experimental aircraft construction department[12]
UVVF
Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Flota - administration of the military air fleet[7]
UVVS
Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Seely - administration of the VVS/ air force directorate[2]
VA
Vozdushnaya Armiya – Air Army[4]
VDV
Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska – airborne troops[4]
V-MF
Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР,
V-TA
Voyenno-Transportnaya Aviahtsiya – military transport aviation[3]
VVA
Voynno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya - VVS academy[4] Zhukovskii
VVAUL
Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Lyotchikov – military flying college[1]
VVAUSh
Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Shturmanov – Military Navigator College[1]
VVF
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota - Air Forces [3]
VVIA
- VVA engineering academy[3]
VVS
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily - Soviet air force[2]
VVS RKKA
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya - Soviet air force of the Workers'and peasants'red army[7]
YuGV
Yuzhnaya Gruppa Voysk – Southern forces Group[1]
ZAP
Zapasnoy Aviatsionnyy/Aviapolk – reserve air/fighter regiment[4]
ZGV
Zapadnaya Gruppa Voysk – Western Group of Forces[1]
ZOK
Zavod Opitnikh Konstruktsiy – factory of experimental designs[7]

Soviet military academies

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"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 (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)
Combined Arms Academy
Combined Arms Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-Military Engineering Forces Institute
Dzerzhinsky Military Academy (Russian
Военная академия им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского)
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 (Военная академия тыла и транспорта)
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[24]
Khabarovsk Military Commanders Training Academy
Kharkiv Military University
Kharkiv National University of the Ukrainian Air Force[25]
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 (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 A.A. Grechko Naval Academy[26]
Marshal Georgy Zhukov Command Academy of the Air Defense Forces
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 Budyonny Military Signals and Communications Academy
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control (Военная академия химической защиты им. С. К. Тимошенко)
Mikhail Kalinin Military Artillery Academy
Kalinin Artillery Military Academy (Военная артиллерийская академия им. М. И. Калинина)
Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (Михайловская артиллерийская академия)
Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy (Russian
Михайловская военная артиллерийская академия)
Military Artillery Academy "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich"
Military Air Combat Training Centers

Russian: ЦБПиПЛС - Центры боевого применения и переучивания личного состава // Tsentry boyevogo primenyeniya i pereuchivaniya lichnogo sostava

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 (Russian
Военный инженерно-технический университет)
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)[27]
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 School

MVD Central School

Naval Engineering Institute
Nikolaevsky Military Engineering-Technical Institute of the Armed Forces
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)
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 Russian
Военно-политическая академия имени В. И. Ленина
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 (Russian
Военно-медицинская академия им. С. М. Кирова)

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