# 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

- Аэрогеология
    Aero-geological Industrial Association
    [otdel] Aviatsii, Ghidroaviahtsii i Opytnovo Samolyotostroyeniya - [section for] aviation, hydro-aviation and experimental construction
    Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya - Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division
    - organisation for importing and licensing American products
    Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-proizvodstvennyy Kompleks MIG – aviation science and production complex MiG
    Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Aviation scientific-technical complex
    Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Teknichyeskii Kompleks – Tupolev aviation scientific-technical complex
    AviaRemontnyy Zavod – aircraft repair factory
    Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota – air fleet academy
    – independent Arctic directorate of Aeroflot
    – squadron part of an LO
    - all-union aviation export agency
    Aviatsiya i Khimiya - Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Soviet Aircraft and Chemical Industry
    – Vnito aviation department of the all-union scientific and technical research organisation
    Gosudarstvenniy Trest Aviatsionniy Promishlennosti - State Aviation Industry Trust
    - central aviation management organisation Sept 1923
    Byuro Novykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of new designs
    Byuro Novoy Tekhniki - bureau of new technology NKAP
    Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy - bureau of special design
    – see TsAGI
    – see TsKB
    – see TsIAM
    – see TsNII
    – see TsUMVS
    – secret police 1918-22 became OGPU
    - (Dyuflon & Konstaninovich factory)
    - Deutsche Russki Air German/Russian airline 1922
    Dolgoprudnenskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Dolgoproodnyy Machinery Factory
    Russian airline 1922
    Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu - voluntary society for assistance to the army, air force and navy
    Eksperimentahl'nyy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod - experimental machinery factory
    Federal'noye Agentstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svyazi i Informatsii – federal agency of government communications and information
    Federatsiya Lyubiteley Aviatsii Rossiyskoy Federatsii – aviation enthusiasts federation of Russia
    Gosudarstvenny Aviatsionnyy Zavod – state aviation plant/factory
    Gazodinamicheskaya Laboratoriya - Gas Dynamics Laboratory
    Gosudarstvenny Elektro-Energeticheskiy Institut - State Institute of Electricity and Energy
    Gosudarstvenny Institoot po Raketnoy Dvigatel'naya - group for studying reaction engines
    Gosudarstvenny Institut po Raketnoy Tekhnike – state institute for rocket technology
    Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamyonnyy Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state red banner air forces research institute
    Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - state committee on aviation industry
    Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike - state committee on aircraft technology
    Gosudarstvenniy Komitet Oborony - state defence committee
    Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Rahdioelektronike – state committee for electronic equipment
    Glavnoe Pravlenie Obédinennikh Aviapromishlennikh – Chief Directorate of united aviation industry factories
    – Main Directorate of northern sea routes
    Gosudarstvenny Lyotno-Ispytahtel'nyy Tsentr – state flight test centre formerly GNIKI VVS
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'ny Krasnoznamenny Institut VVS – State research test institute for the air forces
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Sistem - state scientific research institute for aircraft systems
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state scientific research institute for civil aviation replaced Gos NII GVF
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - state scientific research institute for civil air fleet
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - state air forces research institute
    Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Ispytatel'nyy Poligon Aviatsionnykh System - state research and test range for aircraft systems
    Gosudarstvenny Standart - state standard
    Gosudarstvenny Optnyy Zavod – State Experimental Plant
    - civil experimental aeroplane construction
    Gosudarstvennoye Soyooznoye Opytno Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – State Union experimental design/construction bureau
    GSPI-7 institute
    Gosudarstvennyy Soyuznyy Zavod – State Union factory
- ГУАП
    Главное управление авиационной промышленности - Glavnoye upravleniye uviatsionnoy promyshlennosti - Chief directorate of the aviation industry
- ГУ ГВФ
    Главное управление гражданского воздушного флота - Glavnoye upravleniye grazhdanskovo vozdushnogo flota – Chief directorate of the civil air fleet
    Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti- main directorate of the northern sea route
    Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno Promishlennosti- main directorate of military industry
    Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil- main directorate of air force
    Grazdanskiy Vozdushniy Flot- civil air fleet
    – see TsIAM
    - metallurgical institute
    Institut Promishlennoy Energetiki - institute of industrial power engineering
    - Kazan aviation institute
    - A. M. Isayev Chemical Engineering Design Bureau (Russian: Конструкторское бюро химического машиностроения имени A. M. Исаева)
    Konstruktorskoye Byuro Radiostroyeniya – experimental design/construction bureau
    Konstruktorskoye Byuro 'Vnutrenn'aya Tyur'ma - Internal Prison Design Bureau
    Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti – state security committee
    Kharkovskii Aviatsionny Institut - Kharkov aviation institute
    Kharkovskii Traktorniy Zavod - Kharkov tractor factory
    Kievskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Ob"yedineniye – Kiev Aircraft Production Association
    Kievskiy Aviazavod – Kiev Aircraft Factory
    - Kiev Institute of civil aviation engineering
    Kazanskoe Motorostroitelnoe Proizvodsvennoe Obédinenie - Kazan Engine-building production Enterprise
    'Trood' Kiyevskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod 'Trud' - 'Labour' Kiev Manufacturing plant
    Komitet Oboroni - defence committee
    Komissiya po Tyazhyeloi Aviatsii - commission for heavy aviation
    Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodezhi - young communists union
    Krasnogorskiy Optiko-Mekhanicheskiy Zavod – Krasnogorsk optics and machinery plant
    Konstruktorskiy Otdel Sektora Opytnogo Stroitel'stva - section of experimental aeroplane construction
    Leningrahdskiy Institut Grazhdahnskovo [vozdooshnovo flota] – Leningrad Civil Air Fleet Institute
    Letno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut (Letno-issledovatelʹskiy institut, Narodnyy Komissariaht Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti) - flight research institute (of the state commissariat for aviation industry)
    Letnoispytatel'naya i Dovodochnaya Baza – design bureau flight test and mod facility
    - Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers
    Leningradskoye Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Leningrad Scientific & Production Association
    Letnyy Otryad – flight detachment [of an OAO]
    Moskovskii Aviatsionii Institut imeny Sergo Ordjoniidze - Moscow aviation institute (named after Sergo Ordjoniidze)
    Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry
    Moskovskoe Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye – Moscow aircraft production association MiG
    Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant
    Moskovskii Aviatsionii Technologicheskii Institut - Moscow aviation technological institute
    - EMERCOM Russia
    Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviahtsii – ministry of civil aviation
    Ministerstvo Grazdanskogo Vozdooshnogo Flota - ministry of civil aviation
    - Moscow institute of electronics
    Moskovskoye Mashinostroitel'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro – Moscow mechanical engineering design bureau
    Moskovskiy Mashinostroitel'nyy Zavod – Moscow machine-building plant
    Moskovskiy Naoochno-Issledovatel'sky Institoot Priborostroyeniya – Moscow research institute of instrument engineering
    Moskovskaya Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya - Moscow group for studying reactive movement
    Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Mashinostroyeniya – ministry of general machinery
    Ministerstvo Oboronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of defence industry
    - all-union association for experimental marine aircraft
    Ministerstvo Rahdioelektronnoy Promyshlennosti – ministry of electronics industry
    - ministry for internal affairs 1946-53
    Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya [po soglasovaniyu] Norm Lyotnoy Godnosti Samolyotov – inter-department airworthiness regulations co-ordinating commission
    Moskva Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye - Moscow higher technical school
    Nauchno-Avtomobilnaya Laboratoriya - scientific auto-mobile laboratory
    Nauchnyy avtomotornyy Institut - scientific auto-motor institute
    Novosibirskoye Aviatsionnoye Proizvodstvenniye Obyedineniye – Novosibirsk aircraft production association
    - supreme directorate of aviation industry [became GUAP]
    Nizhegorodskiy AviaZavod – Nizhniy Novgorod aircraft factory
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institut - scientific research aero-institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsionnykh Teknologiy – scientific research institute of aviation technologies
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy i Eksperimenahl'nyy Institut Parashootnodesahntnykh Sistem – Parachute Delivery systems Research and Experimental Institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Poligon Aviatsionnogo Vooruzheniya - research test range of aircraft armament
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut - scientific research institute more than 30 such as NII VVS,
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnogo Oborudovaniya – avionics scientific research institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviatsonnykh Sistem – aircraft systems scientific research institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Aviadvigateley Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute for aero-engines
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Dvigateley Vnutrennego Sgoraniya - scientific research institute for internal combustion engines
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Gosoodarstvennovo Komteta po Rahdioelektronike – state scientific research institute for electronics
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - civil air fleet scientific research institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut KhIMMash - scientific research institute for KhIMMash
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Priborostroyeniya - scientific research institute for fine instruments
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Rahdiostroyeniya - scientific research institute for radio equipment
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Tochnykh Priborov - scientific research institute for fine instruments
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdooshnykh Seel – air force scientific research institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil Krasnoy Armii – Red Army air force scientific research institute
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skoye Otdeleniye (Otdel) – research division (section)
    Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Tsentr Elektronno-Vychislitel'skiy Tekhniki – electronic/computing equipment research centre
    Narodnyy Komissariat Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's commissariat for the Soviet air force
    Narodnyy Komissariat/Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Komitet Upravleniya Voyenno-Vozdushnykh Sil - people's Scientific committee/Scientific technical committee of the Soviet air force directorate
    Narodnyy Komissariat Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for aviation industry
    Narodnyy Komissariat Boyepripasov – people's commissariat of ordnance
    Narodnyy Komissariat Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for electrical engineering
    Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony - people's commissariat for defence
    Narodnyy Komissariat Oborony Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for defence industry
    Narodnyy Komissariat Tyazheloy Promyshlennosti - people's commissariat for heavy industry
    Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - people's commissariat for internal affairs 1934-46 became MVD
    Narodnyy Komissariat po Voenim i Morskim Delam - people's commissariat for military and naval affairs
    Narodnyy Komissariat Vneshney Torgovli - people's commissariat for foreign trade
    Nauchno Opitniy Aerodrom - scientific experimental airfield
    Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie – Scientific and production corporation
    Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie Roodgeofizika – Scientific and production corporation Rudgeofizika
    - Aeropower Research & Production Enterprise
    Otdel Aerodinamicheskiy Letnykh Ispytaniy i Dovodok – department of aerodynamics, flight test and development
    Obyedinennaya Aviastroitel'naya Korporatsiya – united aircraft manufacturing corporation
    1. Obyedinyonnyy Aviaotryad – united flight detachment [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
    Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т (ЦАГИ) Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
    Tsentral'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Gidrodinamicheskiy Institut- central aerodynamics and hydrodynamics institute – may be written CAHI as an acronym of English words
    Tsentral'naya Aerologicheskaya Observatoriya – central aerologic observatory
    Tsentral'nyy Institut Aviatsionnovo Motorostroyeniya - central institute of aviation motors – may be written CIAM as an acronym of English words.
    Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - central construction bureau
    Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro 29 Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del - NKVD central construction bureau 29
    Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Glahvnoye Oopravleniye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - central construction bureau main directorate of aviation industry
    TsKB Morskogo Samoletostroyeniya – central seaplane design bureau
    Tsentral'naya Laboratoriya Spasatel'noy Tekhniki – central laboratory for new types of rescue equipment
    Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Dizelniy Institut – [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
    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)