Aerogeologiya
- Аэрогеология
Aero-geological Industrial Association
AGOS
[otdel] Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya - [section for] aviation, hydro-aviation and experimental construction
AKDON
Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya - Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division
Amtorg
- organisation for importing and licensing American products
ANPK MiG
Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-proizvodstvennyy Kompleks MIG – aviation science and production complex MiG
ANTK
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Aviation scientific-technical complex
ANTK Tupolev
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Tupolev aviation scientific-technical complex
ARZ
AviaRemontnyy Zavod – aircraft repair factory
AVF
Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota – air fleet academy
Aviaarktika
– independent Arctic directorate of Aeroflot
Aviaeskadril'ya
– squadron part of an LO
Aviaeksport
- all-union aviation export agency
Aviakhim
Aviatsiya i Khimiya - Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Soviet Aircraft and Chemical Industry
AVIAVnito
– Vnito aviation department of the all-union scientific and technical research organisation
Aviatrest
Gosudarstvenniy Trest Aviatsionniy Promishlennosti - State Aviation Industry Trust
Aviatrust
- central aviation management organisation Sept 1923
BNK
Byuro Novykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of new construction
BNT
Byuro Novoy Tekhniki - bureau of new technology NKAP
BOK
Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of special design
CAHI
– see TsAGI
CCB
– see TsKB
CIAM
– see TsIAM
CNII
– see TsNII
CUMVS
– see TsUMVS
Cheka
– secret police 1918-22 became OGPU
DEKA
- (Dyuflon & Konstaninovich factory)
Deruluft
- Deutsche Russki Air German/Russian airline 1922
DMZ
Dolgoprudnenskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory
Dobrolyet
Russian airline 1922
DOSAAF
Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu - voluntary society for assistance to the army air force and navy
DOSAV
Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya AV - voluntary society for assisting the air force
EMZ
Eksperimentahl'nyy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod - experimental machinery factory
FAPSI
Federal'noye Agentstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svyazi i Informatsii – federal agency of government communications and information
FLA RF
Federatsiya Lyubiteley Aviatsii Ros-seeyskoy Federahtsii – aviation enthusiasts federation of Russia
GAZ
Gosudarstvenny Aviatsionnyy Zavod – state aviation plant/factory
GDL
Gazodinamicheskaya Laboratoriya - gas dynamics laboratory
GEEI
Gosudarstvenny Elektro-Energeticheskiy Institut - State Institute of Electricity and Energy
GIRD
Gosudarstvenny Institoot po Raketnoy Dvigatel'naya - group for studying reaction engines
GIRT
Gosudarstvenny Institut po Raketnoy Tekhnike – state institute for rocket technology
GK NII VVS
Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state red banner air forces research institute
GKAP
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - state committee on aviation industry
GKAT
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike - state committee on aircraft technology
GKO
Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Oborony - state defence committee
GKRE
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Rahdioelektronike – state committee for electronic equipment
Glavkoavia
Glavnoe Pravlenie Obédinennikh Aviapromishlennikh – Chief Directorate of united aviation industry factories
Glavsyevmorput
– Main Directorate of northern sea routes
GLITs
Gosudarstvenny Lyotno-Ispytahtel'nyy Tsentr – state flight test centre formerly GNIKI VVS
GNIKI VVS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'ny Krasnoznamenny Institut VVS – State research test institute for the air forces
GosNII AS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Sistem - state scientific test institute for aircraft systems
GosNII GA
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - civil air fleet research institute replaced Gos NII GVF
GosNII GVF
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific test institute for civil air fleet
GosNII VVS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state air forces research institute
GosNIPAS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'nyy Poligon Aviatsionnykh System - state research and test range for aircraft systems
GoST
Gosudarstvenny Standart - state Standard
GOZ
Gosudarstvenny Optnyy Zavod – State Experimental Plant
GROS
- civil experimental aeroplane construction
GSOKB
Gosudarstvennoye Soyooznoye Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – State Union experimental design/construction bureau
GSPI-7
GSPI-7 institute
GSZ
Gosudarstvennyy Soyuznyy Zavod – State Union factory
GUAP
- ГУАП
Главное управление авиационной промышленности -
Glavnoye upravleniye uviatsionnoy promyshlennosti - Chief directorate of the aviation industry
GUGVF
- ГУГВФ
Главное управление гражданского воздушного флота -
Glavnoye upravleniye grazhdanskovo vozdushnogo flota – Chief directorate of the civil air fleet
GU SMP
Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti- main directorate of the northern sea route
GU VP
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno Promishlennosti- main directorate of military industry
GU VVS
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil- main directorate of air force
GVF
Grazdanskovo Vozdushnogo Flota- civil air fleet
IAM
Institut Aviatsionnogo Motorostroeniya
- aviation motor construction institute
IMET
- metallurgical institute
IPE
Institut Promishlennoy Energetiki
- institute of industrial power engineering
KAI
- Kazan aviation institute
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
KGB
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti – state security committee
KhAI
Kharkovskii Aviatsionny Institut - Kharkov aviation institute
KhTZ
Kharkovskii Traktorniy Zavod - Kharkov tractor factory
KiAPO
Kievskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Kiev Aircraft Production Association
KiAZ
Kievskiy Aviazavod – Kiev Aircraft Factory
KIIGA
- Kiev Institute of civil aviation engineering
KMPO
Kazanskoe Motorostroitelnoe Proizvodsvennoe Obédinenie - Kazan Engine-building production Enterprise
KMZ
'Trood'
Kiyevskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod 'Trud' - 'Labour' Kiev Manufacturing plant
KO
Komitet Oboroni - defence committee
KOMTA
Komissiya po Tyazhyeloi Aviatsii - commission for heavy aviation
Komsomol
- young communists
KOMZ
Krasnogorskiy Optiko-Mekhanicheskiy Zavod – Krasnogorsk optics and machinery plant
KOSOS
Konstruktorskiy Otdel Sektora Opytnogo Stroitel'stva - section of experimental aeroplane construction
LIG
Leningrahdskiy Institut Grazhdahnskovo [vozdooshnovo flota] – Leningrad Civil Air Fleet Institute
LII
Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - flight research institute
LIIDB
Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza – design bureau flight test facility
LII NKAP
Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti – flight research institute of the state commissariat for aviation industry
LIIPS
- Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers
LNPO Leninets
Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association
LO
Letnyy Otryad – flight [of an OAO]
MAI
Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut Sergo Ordjoniidze - Moscow aviation institute (named after Sergo Ordjoniidze)
MAP
Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry
MAPO MiG
Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Moscow aircraft production association MiG
MARZ
Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant
MAT
Moskovskii Aviatsionii T - Moscow aviation technical high school
MchS Rossii
- EMERCOM Russia
MGA
Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii – ministry of civil aviation
MGVF
Ministerstvo Grazdanskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - ministry of civil aviation
MIREA
- Moscow institute of electronics
MMKB
Moskovskoye Mashinostroitel'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Moscow mechanical engineering design bureau
MMZ
Moskovskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Moscow machine-building plant
MNIIP
Moskovskiy Naoochno-Issledovatel'sky Institoot Priborostroyeniya – Moscow research institute of instrument engineering
MosGIRD
- Moscow group for studying reaction engines
MOM
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Mashinostroyeniya – ministry of general machinery
MOP
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of defence industry
MOS VAO
- all-union association for experimental marine aircraft
MRP
Ministerstvo Rahdioelektronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of electronics industry
MVD
- ministry for internal affairs 1946-53
MVK NLGS
Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya [po soglasovaniyu] Norm Lyotnoy Godnosti Samolyotov – inter-department airworthiness regulations co-ordinating commission
MVTU
Moskva Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye - Moscow higher technical school
NAL
Nauchno-Avtomobilnaya Laboratoriya - scientific auto-mobile laboratory
NAMI
Nauchnyy avtomotornyy Institut - scientific auto-motor institute
NAPO
Novosibirskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvenniye Obyedineniye – Novosibirsk aircraft production association
Narkomavprom
- supreme directorate of aviation industry [became GUAP]
NAZ
Nizhegorodskiy AviaZavod – Nizhniy Novgorod aircraft factory
NIAI
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institut - scientific test aero-institute
NIAT
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy – research institute of aviation technologies
NIEI PDS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy i Eksperimenahl'nyy Institut Parashootnodesahntnykh Sistem – Parachute Delivery systems Research and Experimental Institute
NI PAV
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Poligon Aviatsionnogo Vooruzheniya - research test range of aircraft armament
NII
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - scientific test institute more than 30 such as NII VVS,
NII AS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnykh Sistem – aircraft systems scientific test institute
NII AD GVF
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific test institute for aero-engines
NII DVS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya - scientific test institute for internal combustion engines
NII GKRE
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike – state scientific test institute for electronics
NII GVF
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific test institute
NIIKhIMMash
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash - scientific test institute for KhIMMash
NII P
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostro-yeniya - scientific test institute for fine instruments
NII R
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya - scientific test institute for radio equipment
NII TP
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov - scientific test institute for fine instruments
NII VVS
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel – air force scientific test institute
NII VVS KA
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii – Red Army air force scientific test institute
NIO
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Otdel – research section
NITsEVT
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Tsentr Elektronno-Vychislitel'skiy Tekhniki – electronic/computing equipment research centre
NK VVS
Narodnyy Komissariat Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's commissariat for the Soviet air force
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
NKAP
Narodnyy Komissariat Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for aviation industry
NKB
Narodnyy Komissariat Boyepripasov – people's commissariat of ordnance
NKEP
Narodnyy Komissariat Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for electrical engineering
NKO
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony - people's commissariat for defence
NKOP
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for defence industry
NKTP
Narodnyy Komissariat Tyazheloy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for heavy industry
NKVD
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - people's commissariat for internal affairs 1934-46 became MVD
NKVM
Narodnyy Komissariat po Voenim i Morskim Delam - people's commissariat for military and naval affairs
NKVT
Narodnyy Komissariat Vneshney Torgovli - people's commissariat for foreign trade
NOA
Nauchno Opitniy Aerodrom - scientific experimental airfield
NPO
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie – Scientific and production corporation
NPO Roodgheofizika
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie Roodgeofizika – Scientific and production corporation Rudgeofizika
NPP Aerosila
- Aeropower Research & Production Enterprise
OALID
Otdel Aerodinamicheskiy Letnykh Ispytaniy i Dovodok – department of aerodynamics, flight test and after test modification and development
OAK
Obyedinennaya Aviastroitel'naya Korporatsiya – united aircraft manufacturing corporation
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
4.
OAO Ipromashprom
OAPO
Omskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye 'POLET' - flight production association in Omsk
OAVUK
- society for aviation and gliding of Ukraine and Crimea
ODVF
Obshchestvo Druzey Vozdushnogo Flota- society of friends of the air fleet
OGPU
Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie - united governmental political administration 1922-34 head Menzhinskii, became NKVD
OKB
Опытное конструкторское бюро -
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – experimental design/construction bureau
OKBM
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Motorostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for motor construction (modern acronym)
OKBM
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for machine construction (early version of OKB)
OKO
Opytno-konstruktorskoye - experimental design section Kiev Tairov
OLAGA
Ordena Lenina Akademiya Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Leningrad Civil Aviation Academy decorated with the Order of Lenin
OMO
Opitno-Motorniy Otdel- experimental motor department
OMOS
- department of marine experimental aircraft construction
OND
Otdel Neftyanikh Dvigateley- department of crude oil engines
OOK
- department of special construction
OOS
Otdel Opytnogo Samolyetostroeniya - section for experimental aircraft construction
OPO
Opytnyy Otdel - experimental department
Osoaviakhim
Obshchestvo Sodeystviya Aviatsii i Khimii- society for assistance to aviation and chemical industry
OSGA
OSK
- department for special construction
OSO
Obshchestvo sodeystviya Oborone – Defence Enhancement Society
OSS
Otdel Sookhoputnykh Samolyotov - department for experimental land-plane construction
Ostekhburo
special technical bureau for military inventions
OSVOD
Obshchestvo Spasaniya na Vodakh – Nautical Rescue Agency
OTB
Osoboe Technicheskoye Byuro – special technical bureau
OTL
Otdel Tekhnologicheskikh Laboratoriy – technical laboratories section
OVI
- department of war intervention of RKKA
PA
Polyarnaya Aviatsiya – polar aviation
PINRO
Polyarnyy Institut Morskovo Rybnovo Khozyaystva I Okeanografii – polar institute of oceanic fishery and oceanography
PPOM
Permskoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye Motorostroyeniya – Perm engine production association
Promvoensovet
Soviet Voennoy Promishlennostii – council of the defence industry
RAM
Russkii Aviatsonniy Motor – Russian aviation motor
RBVZ
Rusko-Baltiyskiy Vagonniy Zavod – Russo-Baltic Wagon Factory
Revvoensovet
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet – revolutionary military council
RIB
Raschetno-Ispyatelnoye Byuro – Calculation and Testing Office
RIIGA
Rizhskiy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy – Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute
RKBM
Rybinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Motorostroyeniya – Rybinsk motor constructors burea
RKIIGA
Rizhskiy Krasnoznamennyy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Red Banner institute of civil aviation engineers
RKKVF
Raboche-Krestyanskoy Krasnoy Armii - Vozdushniy Flot –
Workers' and peasants' red army air fleet
RNII
Raketnyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - reaction engine scientific research institute
ROSTO
Rossiyskoye Oboronnoye Sportivno-tekhnicheskoye Obschchestvo – russian Defence Sports and Technical Society Post USSR split
RPKB
Ramenskoye Priborno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Ramenskoye instrument design bureau
RSFSR
- Russian Federation
RSK MiG
Rossiyskaya Samolyotostroitel'naya Korporatsiya – Russia aircraft construction corporation MiG
RVS
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet (or
Revvoensovet) – revolutionary military council
SibNIA
Sibirskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsii – Siberian aeronautical research institute
SKB
1.
Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – special design/construction bureau
2.
Studencheskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - student construction bureau
3.
Syerinoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – series design/construction bureau
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
SKBM
Stupinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya – Stupino Machinery Design Bureau
SKO
Seriyno-Konstruktorskiy Otdel – Production Design Department
SNII
Samolyet Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - aeroplane scientific test institute GVF
SNK
Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov – council of peoples commissars – soviet government
SOS
Sektor Opytnogo Stroitel'stva – prototype construction section
Sovnarkhom
Sovet Narodnikh Komissarov – council of people's commissars
Sovnarkhoz
Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva –council of national economy
SP
Severnyy Polyus – north pole
STO
Sovet Truda i Oboroni – council of labour and defence
TAPO
Tashkentskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Tashkent aircraft production association
TKB
Tul'skoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Tula design bureau
TMZD
Taganrogskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod Imeni Georgiya Dimitrova – Taganrog Machinery plant no.86 named after Gheorgiya Dimitriova
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
TsAGI
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
TsAO
Tsentral'naya Aerologicheskaya Observatoriya – central aerologic observatory
TsIAM
Tsentral'nyy Institut Aviatsionnovo Motorostroyeniya - central institute of aviation motors – may be written CIAM as an acronym of English words.
TsKB
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - central construction bureau
TsKB 29 NKVD
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro 29 Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - NKVD central construction bureau 29
TsKB GUAP
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Glahvnoye Oopravleniye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - central construction bureau main directorate of aviation industry
TsKB MS
TsKB Morskogo Samoletostroyeniya – central seaplane design bureau
TsLST
Tsentral'naya Laboratoriya Spasatel'noy Tekhniki – central laboratory for new types of rescue equipment
TsNIDI
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research diesel institute
TsNII
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research institute
TsNIICherMet
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut CherMet – central scientific research institute of Ferrous Metals
TsUMVS
Tsentral'noye Upravleniye Mezhdunarodnykh Vozdushnykh Soobshcheniy – central directorate for international services
TMZ
Tushinsky mashinostroitelny Zavod – Tushino engineering works
UGA
Upravleniye Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii – Civil Aviation Directorate
UNIDVS
Ukrainskiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya – Ukrainian institute of internal combustion engines
UNIADI
Ukrainskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aviadizelniy Institut – Ukrainian scientific research aviation diesel institute
UK
- training centre
UK GVF
U K Grazdanskovo Vozdushnogo Flota - training centre for civil air fleet
Ukrvosdukhput
see UVP
UMKPA
-
UMS
- control board of navy
USR
- special work control
UUZ
Upravleniye Uchebnykh Zavedeniy – Training Establishments Directorate
UVVF
Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota – Training Establishment of the Soviet Air force fleet
UVP
Ukrvosdukhput – Ukrainian airline
VAO
Vsesoyuznoye Aviatsionnnoye Ob'yedineniye - all-union aircraft production association
VIAM
Vsesoyuznyy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov - all-union institute for aviation materials
VILS
Vsesoyuznyy Institut Legkikh Splavov – All-Union Institute of Light-Alloys
VMO
Vintomotorniy Otdel – propeller motor department
VNIDI
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – All-Union Scientific research diesel Institute
VNIImotoprom
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Motornoy Promishlennosti –All-Union Scientific research institute of the engine industry
VNIIRA
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Radioelektroniki I Avtomatiki – all-union electronics and automatic equipment research institute
VOKBM
- Voronezh engine design bureau
VPK
1.
Voyenno-Promyshlennaya Komissya – commission on military-industrial matters
2.
Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks – defence industry complex
VPK MAPO
Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – defence industry complex - Moscow aircraft production association defence industry complex
VSNKh
Visshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva -supreme council of the people's economy
VT
- internal prison
ZMKB Progress
Zaporozhskoye Motorno-Konstrooktorskoye Byuro ['Progress'] – Preogress Zaporozhskoye engine design bureau
ZOK
Zavod Opytno-konstruktorskoye - factory for special construction / experimental designs (interpretation unclear)
A-VDV
AD
ADD
ADON
AE
AIS
AMG
APIB
APSZ
AT
AV-MF
BBAP
BAP
DA
FA
GvIAP
GvOSAP
GvTBAP
IAS
IAB
IAD
IAP
IA-VPO
LK VVIA
MA
MPVO
MTAP
NIUTK
OAO
ODRAE
OMAG
OMTAP
OPLAP DD
OPLAE
OSAE
OSAP
PVO
RKKA
ShAD
ShAK
ShAP
ShMAS
SmAD
SmAP
Stavka
SGV
TBAP
TDA
TsBP i PLS
TsGV
TVVAUL
UAP
UB
UIAP
UOSAT
UVVF
UVVS
VA
VDV
V-MF
V-TA
VVA
VVAUL
VVAUSh
VVF
VVIA
VVS
VVS RKKA
YuGV
ZAP
ZGV
ZOK
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 (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
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 (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
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)
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) (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)
"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
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 (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
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)
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) (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)
