ORGANIZATION OF SOVIET CIVILIAN AVIATION (GUGVF)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 177
• Publication Date: May 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Organization of Soviet Civilian Aviation (GUGVF)
2. "The administrators, the pilots and the pupils at the schools and colleges of
civilian aviation are regarded as persons doing active military service.
Military law applies to them.
ordinated to the Soviet Ministry of Defense.
the USSR (Glavnoe Upravlenie Grazhdanskogo Vozdushnogo Flota - Chief Admin-
istration of Civilian Aviationn). In turn, this chief administration is oub-
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Head of USSR Civilian. Administration - Marshal S. F. Zhavoronkov
He id of GUGVF - Flight Lt. Gen. U. F. Baidukov
Head of GUGVF Political Department - Flight Maj. Gen. A. I. Letov
Deputy head of Political Department - Flight guard Col. A. S. Agheev
Head of GUGVF Engineering Administration - Lt. Gen. of Aviation
E>igineering Service V. S. Pyshkov
His deputy - Lt. Gen. of f viatiof. Engine.e.ing Service G. P. Leshukov
Head of Training Department - Flight Lt. Gen. I. S. Semenov
Head of GIJGVF Commissariat Department - Maj. Gen. of Commissariet
Service I. I. Voronets
It. "The following administrators are known
3. "GUGVF supervises all civilian aviation school::, colleges, institutes, acad-
emies as well as all civilian aviation research and testing institutes.
supervises:
(a) The Aeroflot (Air Fleet) of the USSR - transport aviation for
transport of passengers, mail and eargoe?I
(b) Medical aviation - transporting sick people and medical personnel
(c) Auxiliary aviation - assisting farming, forestry, fishing, etc.
(d) Aerial photographic aviation
e) The Special Arctic Aviegroup (Arkticheslcaia? Aviogruppa Osobo(po
Aaznac"'-ia), which executes long Arctic flights.
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"Under GUGVF are subordinated 17 'territorial administrations
Aviation' (CA):
Leningrad
Minsk
(3)
Kiev
(4)
VolGa
Kuibyshev
(5)
Ural
Sverdlovsk
(6)
Don
Rostov on Don
(7)
Georgian
Tbilisi
`3)
Azerbaijan
Baku
(9)
Turkmen
Ashkhat ad
(10)
Uzbek
Tashkent
(11)
Kirgiz
Furze
(12)
Kazakh
Alma-Ata
(13)
Novosibirsk
^Ndv6bibirsk
(14)
Irkutsk
Irkutsk
(15)
Y?asnnyarsk
Krasnoyarsk
(16)
Yakutsk
Yakutsk
(17)
Far East
I-abarovsk
7. 'Every territorial CA admini.:tration comet.r.ds several 'aviation units of
Civilian Aviation'. The number of un:.'.s commanded by each administration
depends on the length and number of the air lines in a given area.
~. Daring 1951-1953 the airports of Tashkent and Ashkhabad were, enlarged
considerably. -t in rt for Middle
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