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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 Eddie.
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