Militärakademie für Ingenieure der Luftstreitkräfte „Prof. N. J. Schukowski“
Vasily Molokov enlisted in the Imperial Russian Army in 1915. He then joined the Red Army in January 1918 and took part in the Russian Civil War. In 1921, he graduated from the Naval Aviation School in Samara and then took training extension courses at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (1929). Since 1925 Molokov was member of the Communist Party.