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Aircraft Order of Battle

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On this pages you can find the aircraft order of battle of the Russian Air Force. Also we present links to Microsoft's Expediamaps service: with each airbase you can find a link to a map of the airbases' neighbourhood.

Of course, updates are always welcome. If you have corrections or additions please send them to us !

The abbreviations used and their translations can be found here

Order of Battle

As this country and its armed forces is obviously too large for puting on one page, we decided to split it over several pages, which basicly follow the lines of the Military Districts as explained on the main page.
You can navigate between them using the map above, or one of the drop-down menus you will find on top of every page.

These overviews of the armed forces have already been published in a more extensive manner (including the Chain of Command) in our magazine (Issue 286, March 2003). If you want to obtain this back-issue, please look at The Scramble Shop, or even better; Subscribe !!

For completness we included the main commands in abbriavated form in this online variant, which you will find in the first column, preceding the actual unit designation. For more information about their exact meaning we invite you to read the Scramble itself.
Please note that Army aviation was integrated into the VVSiPVO early 2003. But as we do not know yet to which command they report today. So for the time being we include here the former Army command. When you have any updates on this, please let us know!!
An explanation for this column is;

4A	4 A VVSiPVO (SKVO)
5A	5 A VVSiPVO (PUrVO)
6A	6 A VVSiPVO (LenVO)
11A	11 A VVSiPVO (DalVO)
14A	14 A VVSiPVO (SibVO)
16AK	16 AK / Moscow Okrug VVSiPVO
37VA	37 VA VGK (formerly DA / Long Range Aviation)
61VA	61 VA VGK (formerly VTA / Military Transport Aviation)
AVAI	Armavir Military Aviation Institute (VVS)
BVAI	Balashov Military Aviation Institute (VVS)
DalVO	Far Eastern Military District (Army)
FPS	Federal Border Guards
GKSV	Direct reporting to the Headquarters Army Aviation
GK VMF	Direct reporting to the Headquarters Naval Aviation
GRVZ	Russian Group of Forces in Transcaucasus
KVAI	Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute (VVS)
LenVO	Leningrad Military District (Army)
MChS	Ministry for Emergency Situations (Emercom)
MoD	Direct reporting to the Ministry of Defence.
MoVO	Moscow Military District (Army)
MVD	Ministry of Internal Affairs
OGRVP	Operations Group of Russian Forces in Transdnestriy Region
PUrVO	Volga and Ural Military District (Army)
SibVO	Siberian Military District (Army)
SKVO	North Caucasus Military District (Army)
VDV	Airborne Forces
VGK	Supreme High Command (VVS)
VVS BF	Baltic Fleet Naval Aviation (AVMF)
VVS ChF	Black Sea Fleet Naval Aviation (AVMF)
VVS SF	Northern Fleet Naval Aviation (AVMF)
VVS TOF	Pacific Fleet Naval Aviation (AVMF)

All other abbreviations and their translations can be found at the translation page.
For those interested in the translitteration we used, or want to learn something about the Cyrillic script, a special page was created, which you can find here.