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The Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators of the Air Defense Forces was an aviation school located in the city of Stavropol (at
Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport
Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport (sometimes appearing as Mikhaylovskoye) is an airport in Stavropol Krai, Russia located 13 km northeast of Stavropol.
It services medium-sized airliners with 14 parking spaces. It is also a small military ...
), which trained flight personnel (pilots and navigators) for the
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 ...
and Air Forces.
The school was formed on 1 November 1969, Created on and controlled four training aviation regiments (at
Salsk
Salsk (russian: Сальск) is a town and the administrative center of Salsky District in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sredny Yegorlyk River (Don's basin), southeast of Rostov-on-Don, the administrative center of the oblast. Populati ...
, Khankala, Tikhoretsk, and Kholodnogorsk). A directive was issued on September 15, 1969 on the basis of orders of the Minister of Defense of the USSR No. 0022 and No. 080 of 1969 and directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR No. org / 8/87704 of July 18, 1969 on the basis of the branch of the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Air Defense located in Stavropol.
In 1993 the school was renamed the Stavropol Higher Aviation Engineering Institute, with schools at Stavropol, Daugavpils and Lomonosov.