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Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, USSR. After 1991,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

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Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, it became the main (and only)

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in Ukraine, preparing

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. All educational programs had five-year duration and graduates were granted a qualification and a degree of

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(corresponding to the western level from Bachelor to Master of Engineering). The same educational programs were used at the

Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy () – is a higher military educational institution for training and retraining of engineers for the Russian Air Force. The academy trains specialists – engineers, research engineers in the following sp ...

History

It was founded on September 1, 1951 as the Kyiv Higher Engineering Radio-Technical College of the Soviet Air Force. The academy had a very high reputation; competition for admission was 15 applicants per place. It had academic councils which were awarding

Doktor nauk Doctor of Sciences ( rus, доктор наук, p=ˈdoktər nɐˈuk, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; uk, доктор наук; bg, доктор на науките; be, доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russi ...

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Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт «Київ» імені Ігоря Сікорського (Жуляни)) is one of the two passenger airports of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, th ...

. About a dozen planes and helicopters of various types were available there for engineering practice. The flights were not performed. Later, the training airfield was used to establish the

Ukraine State Aviation Museum The State Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Zhulyany Airport in Kyiv, Ukraine. The museum offers both aircraft exhibits and interactive displays. The museum is one of the larger aviation museums displaying Soviet technology. ...

. On July 3, 2000, the military institution has ceased to exist as such, has been reorganized, the staff and students were relocated to the Air Force University at

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University of Ukraine National Defense University of Ukraine "Ivan Chernyakhovsky" (NDUU) ( uk, Національний університет оборони України імені Івана Черняховського, Natsionalnyi Universytet Oborony Ukrainy ...

Faculties

*1 - Aircraft and Engines *2 - Aviation Weapons *3 - Aviation Equipment (electrical, hydraulic, etc.) *4 - Avionics *5 - Foreign military specialists (primarily from African countries) *6 - Studies by correspondence The faculties #1 and #2 admitted officers who previously completed training at the three-year technical military colleges and had experience of service in the Air Force. The faculties of Aviation Equipment and Avionics accepted high school graduates.

Commanders

*Ivanov, AF (IV.1951 - II.1954) Иванов А. Ф. *Bondarenko II (II.1954-VIII.1962) Бондаренко И. И. *Maksimov, NA (VI.1962-X.1975) Максимов Н. А. *Saints KF (X.1975-IV.1976) Угодников К. Ф. *Chelyshev KB (V.1976 - VII.1990) Челышев К. Б. *Gulyaev, VV (from VII.1990) Гуляев В. В.

Notable Faculty and Personnel

* Alexander Balenko * Pyotr Chinayev * Grigory Golikov * Anatoly Gritsenko * Vitaly Ivanov * Feodosy Iotka * Georgy Kats * Alexander Karpov * Alexander Kucherenko * Emelyan Kondrat * Alexander Kornev * Ivan Korovin * Mark Lanovenko * Igor Migulin *

Anatoly Nedbaylo Anatoly Konstantinovich Nedbaylo (russian: Анатолий Константинович Недбайло; 28 January 1923 13 May 2008) was an Il-2 pilot in the 75th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second Worl ...

* Vladimir Polupanov * Viktor Soshnikov * Vasily Yakovlev

Sample Monographs Published by Faculty

*Dudko, G., Reznikov, GB Doppler velocity meters, and drift angle plane. M. The Soviet radio., 1964. -344 pp. (Дудко Г.К., Резников Г.Б. Допплеровские измерители скорости и угла сноса самолета. М. Советское радио. -1964г. -344 с.) *Reznikov, GB Aircraft antenna. "Soviet Radio", Moscow, 1962. - 456 pp. (Резников Г. Б. Самолетные антенны. «Советское радио», Москва, 1962. - 456 с.) *Chinayev P. Self-tuning systems: calculation and design. - Moscow: Mashgiz. - 1963. - 303 pp. (Чинаев П.И. Самонастраивающиеся системы: расчет и проектирование. - Москва: Машгиз. - 1963. - 303 с.) *Yakovlev VN Microelectronic pulse generators. - Kyiv: Tehnika, 1982. - 208 pp. (Яковлев В. Н. Микроэлектронные генераторы импульсов . - Киев : Технiка, 1982. - 208 с.)

References and external links

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