Gagarin Air Force Academy

Gagarin Air Force Academy (Russian: Военно-воздушная академия имени Ю. А. Гагарина) is a Russian military aviation academy located in Monino, Moscow Oblast.

Gagarin Air Force Academy
TypeMilitary Academy for Aviation
Active1940–2011
Studentsfuture high-ranking military personnel for the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Location
Monino (Монино), Moscow Region.
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Russia

The academy prepares high-ranking military personnel for the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Among the academy alumni are around 700 Heroes of the Soviet Union (highest award in the USSR), more than 10 cosmonauts, and over 2000 military specialists from 21 foreign countries.[1]

The school provides regiment and division-level commanding officers to fill commanding, staff, navigation, logistics, communications and radar-support positions.[2]

Alternative academy names in the English-language literature include Yuri Gagarin Military Air Academy and Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy. In conversational speech often simply referred to as Gagarin Academy or Monino Academy. By late 2008, this academy and the N. Zhukovsky Aviation Engineering Academy both merged to become the Gagarin-Zhukovsky Military Combined Air Force Academy, but it retained its Monino campus. Later in 2011, the Monino campus was closed.

History

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The academy was founded in 1940. It was named Air Force Academy in 1946. In 1968 it was named after Yuri Gagarin (Гагарин, Юрий Алексеевич).[3] In Soviet times, only the officers with a primary military education (летное училище – flight school) and holding the position of major could study at the academy. The collection of the serial and experimental Soviet aircraft (air force museum) served as a base for the studying by cadets of the academy. According to tradition, after the end of active military service as teachers of the academy, the officers became the guides in the museum. In 2008, Gagarin Air Force Academy was amalgamated with the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (Russian: Военно-воздушная инженерная академия имени профессора Н.Е. Жуковского).[4] The new academy was titled "Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy" – a federal government military educational institution of higher education run by the Russian Ministry of Defence. Since 2010 the full name is Russian Air Force Military Educational and Scientific Center "Air Force Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin".

For the latest history of the academy see the article on Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy

Leadership (Superintendent – commander and senior officer)

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General Nikolai Skomorokhov at the 1974 October Revolution Parade.

Notable faculty

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Notable alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Военно-воздушная академия Archived 24 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine (Air Force Academy)
  2. ^ Top-level school for military flyers Vladimir Vasyutin, Military Parade Volume 18 Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Авиация: Энциклопедия. – М.: Great Russian Encyclopedia (Russian: Большая Российская Энциклопедия). Главный редактор Г.П. Свищев. 1994.
  4. ^ РАСПОРЯЖЕНИЕ Правительства РФ от 07.03.2008 N 283-р Archived 14 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Russian Government Directive).
  5. ^ Urribarres, Ruben. "Cuban Aviators, II Part • Rafael Del Pino Diaz". Cuban Aviation. Retrieved 26 July 2016.


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