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
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 designs

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

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 Rossiyskoy Federatsii – 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:
 * Gosudarstvenniy Komitet 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 research institute for aircraft systems

GosNII GA:
 * Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state scientific research institute for civil aviation  replaced Gos NII GVF

GosNII GVF:
 * Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific research 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

GU GVF: - ГУ ГВФ
 * 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:
 * Grazdanskiy Vozdushniy Flot- civil air fleet

IAM:
 * – see TsIAM

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:
 * Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi - young communists union

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 (or LII NKAP):


 * Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut (Letno-issledovatelʹskiy institut, Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti) - flight research institute (of the state commissariat for aviation industry)

LIiDB:
 * Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza – design bureau flight test and mod facility

LIIPS:
 * - Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers

LNPO Leninets:
 * Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association

LO:
 * Letnyy Otryad – flight detachment [of an OAO]

MAI:
 * Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut imeny 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

MATI:
 * Moskovskii Aviatsionii Technologicheskii Institut - Moscow aviation technological institute

MchS Rossii:
 * - EMERCOM Russia

MGA:
 * Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii – ministry of civil aviation

MGVF:
 * Ministerstvo Grazdanskogo Vozdooshnogo 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:
 * Moskovskaya Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya - Moscow group for studying reactive movement

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 research aero-institute

NIAT:


 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy – scientific 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 research institute 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

NII AD GVF:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute for aero-engines

NII DVS:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya - scientific research institute for internal combustion engines

NII GKRE:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike – state scientific research institute for electronics

NII GVF:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute

NIIKhIMMash:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash - scientific research institute for KhIMMash

NII P:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostroyeniya - scientific research institute for fine instruments

NII R:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya - scientific research institute for radio equipment

NII TP:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov - scientific research institute for fine instruments

NII VVS:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel – air force scientific research institute

NII VVS KA:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii – Red Army air force scientific research institute

NIO:
 * Nauchno-Issledovatel'skoye Otdeleniye (Otdel)  – research division (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 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:
 * Osoboe tekhnicheskoe byuro po voennym izobreteniyam spetsialnogo naznacheniya (Особое техническое бюро по военным изобретениям специального назначения) 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 research 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:


 * Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov - all-union institute for aviation materials

VILS:
 * Vsesoyuznyy Institut Legkikh Splavov – All-Union Institute of Light-Alloys

VMO:
 * Vintomotorniy Otdel – propeller and 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)

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

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 (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 (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 (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 (Михайловская военная артиллерийская академия)


 * Military Artillery Academy "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich"

ЦБПиПЛС - Центры боевого применения и переучивания личного состава // Tsentry boyevogo primenyeniya i pereuchivaniya lichnogo sostava
 * Military Air Combat Training Centers
 * Center of Frontline Aviation, Lipetsk Air Base
 * Center of Air Defense Aviation, Savasleika Саваслейка)
 * Center of Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy, Ostrov (air base), near Pskov
 * Center of Long Range Aviation, Dyagilevo


 * Military Educational and Scientific Center (Russ. ВУНЦ) Note: Military Educational and Scientific Center (MESC) is a type of the institution, not a single military entity. E.g. " Russian Air Force MESC Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy". About 10 MESCs were established 2000s.


 * Military Engineering University of St. Petersburg


 * Military Engineering-Technical University (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)


 * 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 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 (Военно-медицинская академия им. С. М. Кирова)