Modeling the Aircraft of the Soviet VVS
Glossary of Russian Terms

ADD (Aviatsiya Dal'nevo Dyestviya) :

Long-Range Aviation, 18th Air Army

AON (Aviatsionnaya Armia Osobovo Naznachenia) :

Special Purpose Aviation Army

Aviapark (Aviatsionnyi Park) :

Aviation Depot (Airpark)

Aviakhim (Obshchestvo Druzei Aviakhimicheskoi Oborony i Promyshlennosti SSSR) :

Society of Friends of the Aerial and Chemical Defence and Industry of the USSR

Aviatrest (Gosudarstvennyi trest aviatsionnoi promyshlennosti) :

State Aviation Industry Trust

BAP (Bombardirovochniy Aviapolk) :

Bomber Air Regiment

Bombardirovschik :

Bomber

Byuro Konstruktsii :

Design Bureau

ChMF (Cherno-Morskiy Flot) :

Black Sea Fleet

DBA (Dalno-Bombardirovochnaya Aviatsiya) :

Long-Range Bomber Aviation (see ADD)

Delta Drevyesina :

A timber product consisting of cross-grained layers of birch strip ("shpon") impregnated with phenol-formaldehyde resin, heat-bonded on one or both sides to bakelite film.

Diviziya Vozdushnykh Korablei :

Division of Flying Ships

EON (Eskadril'ya Osobovo Naznachenya) :

Special Purpose Squadron

Eskadril'ya (Aviatsionnaya) :

Squadron (Aviation)

Diviziya :

Division (Aviation)

Glavaviaprom (Glavnoe Upravlenie Aviatsionnoy Promishlennosti) :

Chief Directorate of the Aviation Industry

Glavvozdukhflot (Glavnoe Upravlenie Vozdushnovo Flota) :

Chief Directorate of The Air Fleet

GROSS (Grazhdanskoye Opitnoye Samoletostroenye) :

Civil Experimental Aircraft Construction

GUAP (Glavnoe Upravlenye Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti) :

Chief Directorate of the Aviation Industry

GUGVF (Glavnoe Upravlenye Grazhdanskovo Vozdushnovo Flota) :

Chief Administration of the Civil Air Fleet

GVF (Grazhdanskii Vozdushniy Flot) :

Civil Air Fleet

IAP (Istrebitel'niy Aviapolk) :

Fighter Air Regiment

IA PVO (Istrebitel'niy Aviapolk Protivo-Vozdushnovo Oborona) :

Fighter Regiment of the Anti-Air Defence

Istrebitel' :

Fighter

Istrebitel'naya Aviaeskadril'ya :

Fighter Squadron

KOSOS (Konstruktorskii Ot'del Opytnovo Samoletostroenia) :

Experimental Aircraft Construction Development Team

Korpus :

Corps (or main body)

Krasnaya Armiya :

Red Army

KVF (Krasniy Vozdushniy Flot) :

Red Air Fleet

LBE (Legko-Bombardirovichnaya Aviaeskadril'ya) :

Light Bomber Squadron

LII (Lyetno-Islyedovatel'skii Institut) :

Flight Research Institute

Narkomavprom :

State Commissatiat for Aviation

Narkomat Oborony :

State Commissariat for Defense

NII VVS (Nauchno-Ispitatel'niy Institut Voyenno-Vozdushikh Sil) :

Scientific Test Institute of the Army Air Forces

ODVF (Obshchestvo Druzei Vozdushnovo Flota) :

Society of Friends of the Air Fleet

OKA (Otdel'naya Krasnoznamennaya Armia) :

Independant Red-Banner Army

OKB (Opitnoe Konstruktorskoe Byuro) :

Experimental Design Bureau

OKB MS (Opitnoe Konstruktorskoe Byuro Morskovo Samoletostroeniya) :

Experimental Naval Aircraft Design Bureau

ORAP (Otdel'naya Razvedivatel'naya Polk) :

Detached Reconnaissance Regiment

Otryad :

Group (large flight)

Polk :

Regiment

Razvyedchik :

Reconnaissance Aircraft

ShAP (Shturmoviy Aviapolk) :

Assault Air Regiment

SF (Syevernoe Flota) :

Northern Fleet

Shturmovik :

Assault Aircraft

TsAGI (Tsentral'niy Aero-Gidrodinamicheskii Institut) :

Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute

Tsentral'naya Aviatsionnaya Remontnaya Baza :

Central Aviation Repair Base

Tsentral'noe Konstruktorskoe Byuro :

Central Design Bureau

UVVS (Upravlenie Voyenno-Vozdushnikh Sily) :

Directorate of the Air Forces

VMF (Voenno-Morskoi Flot SSSR) :

Naval Forces of the USSR

VVA (Voenno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya) :

Air Forces Academy

VVS (Voyenno-Vozdushne Sily) :

Army Air Forces

Zavod (Gosudarstvenniy Aviatsionniy Zavod, or GAZ) :

State Aviation Factory

Zveno :

Flight