Glossary of Soviet Terms and Abbreviations

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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

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