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.
- Russian: Аэрогеология
Aero-geological Industrial Association[1]
[otdel] Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya - [section for] aviation, hydro-aviation and experimental construction[2]
Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya - Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division
See main article: Amtorg Trading Corporation.
- organisation for importing and licensing American products[3]
See main article: Mikoyan.
Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-proizvodstvennyy Kompleks MIG – aviation science and production complex MiG[4] [5]
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Aviation scientific-technical complex
See main article: Tupolev.
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Tupolev aviation scientific-technical complex[6]
AviaRemontnyy Zavod – aircraft repair factory
Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota – air fleet academy
See main article: Aviaarktika.
– independent Arctic directorate of Aeroflot
– squadron part of an LO
- all-union aviation export agency
Aviatsiya i Khimiya - Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Soviet Aircraft and Chemical Industry[7]
– Vnito aviation department of the all-union scientific and technical research organisation
Gosudarstvenniy Trest Aviatsionniy Promishlennosti - State Aviation Industry Trust
- central aviation management organisation Sept 1923
Byuro Novykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of new designs
Byuro Novoy Tekhniki - bureau of new technology NKAP
Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of special design[8]
– see TsAGI
– see TsKB
– see TsIAM
– see TsNII
– see TsUMVS
See main article: Joint State Political Directorate.
– secret police 1918-22 became OGPU
- (Dyuflon & Konstaninovich factory)
- Deutsche Russki Air German/Russian airline 1922
Dolgoprudnenskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory[9]
Russian airline 1922
Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu - voluntary society for assistance to the army, air force and navy
Eksperimentahl'nyy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod - experimental machinery factory[10]
Federal'noye Agentstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svyazi i Informatsii – federal agency of government communications and information
Federatsiya Lyubiteley Aviatsii Rossiyskoy Federatsii – aviation enthusiasts federation of Russia
Gosudarstvenny Aviatsionnyy Zavod – state aviation plant/factory
Gazodinamicheskaya Laboratoriya - Gas Dynamics Laboratory[11]
Gosudarstvenny Elektro-Energeticheskiy Institut - State Institute of Electricity and Energy
Gosudarstvenny Institoot po Raketnoy Dvigatel'naya - group for studying reaction engines
Gosudarstvenny Institut po Raketnoy Tekhnike – state institute for rocket technology
Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state red banner air forces research institute
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - state committee on aviation industry
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike - state committee on aircraft technology[12]
Gosudarstvenniy Komitet Oborony - state defence committee
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Rahdioelektronike – state committee for electronic equipment
Glavnoe Pravlenie Obédinennikh Aviapromishlennikh – Chief Directorate of united aviation industry factories
– Main Directorate of northern sea routes
Gosudarstvenny Lyotno-Ispytahtel'nyy Tsentr – state flight test centre formerly GNIKI VVS
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'ny Krasnoznamenny Institut VVS – State research test institute for the air forces
See main article: State Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Systems.
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Sistem - state scientific research institute for aircraft systems
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state scientific research institute for civil aviation replaced Gos NII GVF
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific research institute for civil air fleet
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state air forces research institute
Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'nyy Poligon Aviatsionnykh System - state research and test range for aircraft systems
Gosudarstvenny Standart - state standard
Gosudarstvenny Optnyy Zavod – State Experimental Plant[13]
- civil experimental aeroplane construction
Gosudarstvennoye Soyooznoye Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – State Union experimental design/construction bureau[14]
GSPI-7 institute
Gosudarstvennyy Soyuznyy Zavod – State Union factory[15] - ГУАП[16]
Главное управление авиационной промышленности - Glavnoye upravleniye uviatsionnoy promyshlennosti - Chief directorate of the aviation industry - ГУ ГВФ[17]
Главное управление гражданского воздушного флота - Glavnoye upravleniye grazhdanskovo vozdushnogo flota – Chief directorate of the civil air fleet
Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti- main directorate of the northern sea route
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno Promishlennosti- main directorate of military industry
Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil- main directorate of air force
Grazdanskiy Vozdushniy Flot- civil air fleet
– see TsIAM
- metallurgical institute
Institut Promishlennoy Energetiki - institute of industrial power engineering
- Kazan aviation institute
- A. M. Isayev Chemical Engineering Design Bureau (Russian: Russian: Конструкторское бюро химического машиностроения имени A. M. Исаева)
Konstruktorskoye Byuro Radiostroyeniya – experimental design/construction bureau
Konstruktorskoye Byuro 'Vnutrenn'aya Tyur'ma - Internal Prison Design Bureau
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti – state security committee
Kharkovskii Aviatsionny Institut - Kharkov aviation institute
Kharkovskii Traktorniy Zavod - Kharkov tractor factory
Kievskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Kiev Aircraft Production Association
Kievskiy Aviazavod – Kiev Aircraft Factory
- Kiev Institute of civil aviation engineering
Kazanskoe Motorostroitelnoe Proizvodsvennoe Obédinenie - Kazan Engine-building production Enterprise
'Trood' Kiyevskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod 'Trud - 'Labour' Kiev Manufacturing plant
Komitet Oboroni - defence committee
Komissiya po Tyazhyeloi Aviatsii - commission for heavy aviation
Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi - young communists union
Krasnogorskiy Optiko-Mekhanicheskiy Zavod – Krasnogorsk optics and machinery plant
Konstruktorskiy Otdel Sektora Opytnogo Stroitel'stva - section of experimental aeroplane construction
Leningrahdskiy Institut Grazhdahnskovo [vozdooshnovo flota] – Leningrad Civil Air Fleet Institute
See main article: Gromov Flight Research Institute.
Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut (Letno-issledovatelʹskiy institut, Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti) - flight research institute (of the state commissariat for aviation industry)
Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza – design bureau flight test and mod facility
- Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers
Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association
Letnyy Otryad – flight detachment [of an OAO]
Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut imeny Sergo Ordjoniidze - Moscow aviation institute (named after Sergo Ordjoniidze)
Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry[18] [19]
Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Moscow aircraft production association MiG
Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant
Moskovskii Aviatsionii Technologicheskii Institut - Moscow aviation technological institute
- EMERCOM Russia
Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii – ministry of civil aviation
Ministerstvo Grazdanskogo Vozdooshnogo Flota - ministry of civil aviation
- Moscow institute of electronics
Moskovskoye Mashinostroitel'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Moscow mechanical engineering design bureau
Moskovskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Moscow machine-building plant
Moskovskiy Naoochno-Issledovatel'sky Institoot Priborostroyeniya – Moscow research institute of instrument engineering
Moskovskaya Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya - Moscow group for studying reactive movement
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Mashinostroyeniya – ministry of general machinery
Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of defence industry
- all-union association for experimental marine aircraft
Ministerstvo Rahdioelektronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of electronics industry
- ministry for internal affairs 1946-53
Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya [po soglasovaniyu] Norm Lyotnoy Godnosti Samolyotov – inter-department airworthiness regulations co-ordinating commission
Moskva Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye - Moscow higher technical school[20]
Nauchno-Avtomobilnaya Laboratoriya - scientific auto-mobile laboratory
Nauchnyy avtomotornyy Institut - scientific auto-motor institute
Novosibirskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvenniye Obyedineniye – Novosibirsk aircraft production association
- supreme directorate of aviation industry [became GUAP]
Nizhegorodskiy AviaZavod – Nizhniy Novgorod aircraft factory
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institut - scientific research aero-institute
See main article: National Institute of Aviation Technologies (Moscow).
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy – scientific research institute of aviation technologies
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy i Eksperimenahl'nyy Institut Parashootnodesahntnykh Sistem – Parachute Delivery systems Research and Experimental Institute
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Poligon Aviatsionnogo Vooruzheniya - research test range of aircraft armament
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - scientific research institute more than 30 such as NII VVS,
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnogo Oborudovaniya – avionics scientific research institute
See main article: State Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Systems.
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnykh Sistem – aircraft systems scientific research institute
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute for aero-engines
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya - scientific research institute for internal combustion engines
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike – state scientific research institute for electronics
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash - scientific research institute for KhIMMash
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostroyeniya - scientific research institute for fine instruments
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya - scientific research institute for radio equipment
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov - scientific research institute for fine instruments
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel – air force scientific research institute
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii – Red Army air force scientific research institute[21]
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skoye Otdeleniye (Otdel) – research division (section)
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Tsentr Elektronno-Vychislitel'skiy Tekhniki – electronic/computing equipment research centre
Narodnyy Komissariat Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's commissariat for the Soviet air force
Narodnyy Komissariat/Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Komitet Upravleniya Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's Scientific committee/Scientific technical committee of the Soviet air force directorate
Narodnyy Komissariat Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for aviation industry[22]
Narodnyy Komissariat Boyepripasov – people's commissariat of ordnance
Narodnyy Komissariat Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for electrical engineering
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony - people's commissariat for defence
Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for defence industry
Narodnyy Komissariat Tyazheloy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for heavy industry
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - people's commissariat for internal affairs 1934-46 became MVD
Narodnyy Komissariat po Voenim i Morskim Delam - people's commissariat for military and naval affairs
Narodnyy Komissariat Vneshney Torgovli - people's commissariat for foreign trade
Nauchno Opitniy Aerodrom - scientific experimental airfield
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie – Scientific and production corporation
Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie Roodgeofizika – Scientific and production corporation Rudgeofizika
- Aeropower Research & Production Enterprise
Otdel Aerodinamicheskiy Letnykh Ispytaniy i Dovodok – department of aerodynamics, flight test and development
Obyedinennaya Aviastroitel'naya Korporatsiya – united aircraft manufacturing corporation
1. Obyedinyonnyy Aviaotryad – united flight detachment [of a UGA]
2. Otdel'nyy Aviaotryad – independent flight detachment [government airline]
3. Otkrytoye Aktsionehrnoye Obshchestvo [Tupolev] – Tupolev Public limited Company
4. OAO Ipromashprom
Omskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye 'POLET - flight production association in Omsk
- society for aviation and gliding of Ukraine and Crimea
Obshchestvo Druzey Vozdushnogo Flota- society of friends of the air fleet
Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie - united governmental political administration 1922-34 head Menzhinskii, became NKVD
Опытное конструкторское бюро - Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – experimental design/construction bureau
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Motorostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for motor construction (modern acronym)
Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroeniya – experimental design/construction bureau for machine construction (early version of OKB)
Opytno-konstruktorskoye - experimental design section Kiev Tairov
Ordena Lenina Akademiya Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Leningrad Civil Aviation Academy decorated with the Order of Lenin
Opitno-Motorniy Otdel- experimental motor department
- department of marine experimental aircraft construction
Otdel Neftyanikh Dvigateley- department of crude oil engines
- department of special construction
Otdel Opytnogo Samolyetostroeniya - section for experimental aircraft construction
Opytnyy Otdel - experimental department
Obshchestvo Sodeystviya Aviatsii i Khimii- society for assistance to aviation and chemical industry
- department for special construction
Obshchestvo sodeystviya Oborone – Defence Enhancement Society
Otdel Sookhoputnykh Samolyotov - department for experimental land-plane construction
Osoboe tekhnicheskoe byuro po voennym izobreteniyam spetsialnogo naznacheniya (Особое техническое бюро по военным изобретениям специального назначения) special technical bureau for military inventions
Obshchestvo Spasaniya na Vodakh – Nautical Rescue Agency
Osoboe Technicheskoye Byuro – special technical bureau
Otdel Tekhnologicheskikh Laboratoriy – technical laboratories section
- department of war intervention of RKKA
Polyarnaya Aviatsiya – polar aviation
Polyarnyy Institut Morskovo Rybnovo Khozyaystva I Okeanografii – polar institute of oceanic fishery and oceanography
Permskoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye Motorostroyeniya – Perm engine production association
Soviet Voennoy Promishlennostii – council of the defence industry
Russkii Aviatsonniy Motor – Russian aviation motor
Rusko-Baltiyskiy Vagonniy Zavod – Russo-Baltic Wagon Factory
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet – revolutionary military council
Raschetno-Ispyatelnoye Byuro – Calculation and Testing Office
Rizhskiy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy – Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute
Rybinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Motorostroyeniya – Rybinsk motor constructors burea
Rizhskiy Krasnoznamennyy Institut Inzhenerov Grazhdahnskoy Aviatsii – Red Banner institute of civil aviation engineers
Raboche-Krestyanskoy Krasnoy Armii - Vozdushniy Flot – Workers' and peasants' red army air fleet
Raketnyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - reaction engine scientific research institute
Rossiyskoye Oboronnoye Sportivno-tekhnicheskoye Obschchestvo – russian Defence Sports and Technical Society Post USSR split
Ramenskoye Priborno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Ramenskoye instrument design bureau
- Russian Federation
Rossiyskaya Samolyotostroitel'naya Korporatsiya – Russia aircraft construction corporation MiG
Revolutsionniy Voenniy Sovet (or Revvoensovet) – revolutionary military council
Sibirskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsii – Siberian aeronautical research institute
1. Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – special design/construction bureau
2. Studencheskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - student construction bureau
3. Syerinoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – series design/construction bureau
Spetsiahl'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Rotorno-Porshnevikh Dvigateley Volzhskogo Avtomobilnogo Zavoda – special design/construction bureau for Wankel rotary engines of the Volga automoile factory
Stupinskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya – Stupino Machinery Design Bureau
Seriyno-Konstruktorskiy Otdel – Production Design Department
Samolyet Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - aeroplane scientific research institute GVF
Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov – council of peoples commissars – soviet government
Sektor Opytnogo Stroitel'stva – prototype construction section
Sovet Narodnikh Komissarov – council of people's commissars
Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva –council of national economy
Severnyy Polyus – north pole
Sovet Truda i Oboroni – council of labour and defence
Tashkentskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Tashkent aircraft production association
Tul'skoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Tula design bureau
Taganrogskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod Imeni Georgiya Dimitrova – Taganrog Machinery plant no.86 named after Gheorgiya Dimitriova
Tekhnicheskiy Otdel Ekonomicheskogo Upravleniya Ob'edinyonnoye Glavnoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie - technical department of the economic directorate of the special governmental political administration
See main article: Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute.
Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т (ЦАГИ) Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Tsentral'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Gidrodinamicheskiy Institut- central aerodynamics and hydrodynamics institute – may be written CAHI as an acronym of English words
Tsentral'naya Aerologicheskaya Observatoriya – central aerologic observatory
See main article: Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motor Development.
Tsentral'nyy Institut Aviatsionnovo Motorostroyeniya - central institute of aviation motors – may be written CIAM as an acronym of English words.
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - central construction bureau
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro 29 Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - NKVD central construction bureau 29
Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Glahvnoye Oopravleniye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - central construction bureau main directorate of aviation industry
TsKB Morskogo Samoletostroyeniya – central seaplane design bureau
Tsentral'naya Laboratoriya Spasatel'noy Tekhniki – central laboratory for new types of rescue equipment
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research diesel institute
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut – [ministry of defence] central scientific research institute
Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut CherMet – central scientific research institute of Ferrous Metals
Tsentral'noye Upravleniye Mezhdunarodnykh Vozdushnykh Soobshcheniy – central directorate for international services
Tushinsky mashinostroitelny Zavod – Tushino engineering works
Upravleniye Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii – Civil Aviation Directorate
Ukrainskiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya – Ukrainian institute of internal combustion engines
Ukrainskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aviadizelniy Institut – Ukrainian scientific research aviation diesel institute
- training centre
U K Grazdanskovo Vozdushnogo Flota - training centre for civil air fleet
see UVP
-
- control board of navy
- special work control
Upravleniye Uchebnykh Zavedeniy – Training Establishments Directorate
Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota – Training Establishment of the Soviet Air force fleet
Ukrvosdukhput – Ukrainian airline
Vsesoyuznoye Aviatsionnnoye Ob'yedineniye - all-union aircraft production association
See main article: All-Russian Institute Of Aviation Materials.
Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov - all-union institute for aviation materials
Vsesoyuznyy Institut Legkikh Splavov – All-Union Institute of Light-Alloys
Vintomotorniy Otdel – propeller and motor department
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – All-Union Scientific research diesel Institute
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Motornoy Promishlennosti –All-Union Scientific research institute of the engine industry
Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Radioelektroniki I Avtomatiki – all-union electronics and automatic equipment research institute
- Voronezh engine design bureau
1. Voyenno-Promyshlennaya Komissya – commission on military-industrial matters
2. Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks – defence industry complex
Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kompleks Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – defence industry complex - Moscow aircraft production association defence industry complex
Visshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaystva -supreme council of the people's economy
- internal prison
Zaporozhskoye Motorno-Konstrooktorskoye Byuro ['Progress'] – Preogress Zaporozhskoye engine design bureau
Zavod Opytno-konstruktorskoye - factory for special construction / experimental designs (interpretation unclear)
- airborne forces of VVS
Aviatsionnyy Diviziya - fighter air division
Aviatsiya Dal'nevo Deystviya - long range aviation
AviaDiveeziya Osobvo Naznacheniya – special mission air division
Aviaeskadril'ya - air squadron
Aviatsionnaya Ispytatel'naya Stantsiya, Morskaya Vedomsfva - naval air test station
A Maksim Gorkii - propaganda squadron
Aviatsionnyy Polk Istrebiteley Bombardirovshchikov – fighter-bomber regiment
Aviatsionnyy Polk Samolyetov-Zaprahvshchikov – aerial refuelling regiment
Aviaotryad - air detachment
Aviatsiya Voyenno-Morskogo Flota - naval aviation
Blizhne-bombardirovochnyye Polki - short range bomber air regiment[23]
Bombardirovchnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - bomber regiment
Dahl'nyaya Aviahtsiya - long-range aviation became ADD
(Russian:фронтовой авиации) Frontovaya Aviatsiya – frontal aviation tactical aviation of VVS
Gvardeyskiy istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Guards fighter regiment
Gvardeyskiy Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards independent composite air regiment
Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk – guards heavy bomber regiment
Inzhenerno-Aviatcionaya Sluzhba - Soviet and Russian Air Force acquisition and maintenance service[23]
Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Brigahda - fighter brigade
Istrebitel'naya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya - fighter air division
Istrebitel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk - fighter regiment
Istrebitel'naya Aviahtsiya - Protivovozdushnaya Oborona - manned fighter branch of PVO
Leningradskaya Krasnoznamennaya Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya – Leningrad red banner military air academy
Morskaya Aviahtsiya - naval aviation became AV-MF
Mestnaya Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – local air defence forces
Minno-torpednyi Aviatsionnyi Polk – minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii i Uchebno-Trenirovchnnyi Kompleks – R&D and training complex ground facility for carrier arresting landings trials and training
Otdel'nyy Aviatsionnyy Otryad – independent flight detachment
otdel'naya Dahl'nyaya Razvedyvatel'naya Aviaeskadril'ya Independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron
- independent naval aviation group
Otdel'nyy Minno-Torpednyy AviaPolk – independent minelaying and torpedo-bomber regiment
Otdel'nyy Protivolodochnyy Aviatsionnyy Polk Dahl'nevo Deystviya – independent long-range ASW regiment
Otdel'naya Protivolodochnaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – independent ASW squadron Independent ASW Air Squadron
Otdel'naya Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Eskadril'ya – composite air squadron
Otdel'nyy Smeshannyy Aviatsionnyy polk – composite air regiment
Protivovozdushnaya Oborona – air defence forces
Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya – workers and peasants Red Army
Shturmovaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – Ground attack air division
Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Korpoos – Ground attack air corps
Shturmovoy Aviatsionnyy Polk – Ground attack air regiment
Shkola Mladshikh Aviatsionnykh Spetsialistov – junior aviation specialists school
Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Diveeziya – composite air division
Smeshannaya Aviatsionnyy Polk – composite air regiment
Stavka – Supreme High Command
Severnaya Gruppa Voysk – Northern Group of Forces
Tyazhelobombardirovochnyy Aviapolk – heavy bomber regiment
Transportno-Desantnaya Aviatsiya – transport and assault aviation
Tsentr Boyevoy Podogotovki i Pereuchivaniya Letnogo Sostava – combat & conversion training centre
Tsentrahl'naya Grooppa Voysk – Central forces Group
Tambovskoye Vyssheye Voyennoye Aviatsionnoye Oochilishche Lyotchikov – Tambov higher military pilot school
Oochebnyy AviaPolk – instructional regiment
Unifitsirovanny Blok – unified unit
Uchebnyy Istrebitel'nyy AviaPolk – instructional fighter regiment
Upravleniye Opytnovo Stroitel'stva Aviatsionnoy Tekhniki – Soviet Ari force experimental aircraft construction department
Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Flota - administration of the military air fleet
Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdooshnyye Seely - administration of the VVS/ air force directorate
Vozdushnaya Armiya – Air Army
Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska – airborne troops
Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР,
Voyenno-Transportnaya Aviahtsiya – military transport aviation
Voynno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya - VVS academy Zhukovskii
Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Lyotchikov – military flying college
Vyesheye Voyennoye Aviatsiionnoye Uchilishche Shturmanov – Military Navigator College
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Flota - Air Forces
- VVA engineering academy
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily - Soviet air force
Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya - Soviet air force of the Workers'and peasants'red army
Yuzhnaya Gruppa Voysk – Southern forces Group
Zapasnoy Aviatsionnyy/Aviapolk – reserve air/fighter regiment
Zapadnaya Gruppa Voysk – Western Group of Forces
Zavod Opitnikh Konstruktsiy – factory of experimental designs
MVD Central School
See main article: Gagarin Air Force Academy.