Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy

Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (Военно воздушная инженерная академия имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского) – is a higher military educational institution for training and retraining of engineers for the Russian Aerospace Forces. The academy trains specialists – engineers, research engineers in the following specialties:

Technical maintenance of aircraft and engines
Robotic aircraft armament system
Electronics and automation of physical systems
Technical maintenance of aircraft electrical systems and flight control and navigation systems
Software of computers and automated systems
Metrology and metrological support
Technical operation of the transport of radio equipment
Electronic warfare
The study of natural resources by means of aerospace

The academy has the main campus in Moscow, and training centers in Monino, Noginsk and Kashira.

No. 1 – aircraft
No. 2 – aircraft armament
No. 3 – aircraft equipment
No. 4 – aviation electronic equipment
No. 5 – training of foreign specialists
No. 6 – basic training

Through its 90 year history the academy has undergone many reorganizations and name changes. The list below is not complete.

The academy traces its history back to the Moscow Aviation College which was created on the initiative of Professor Zhukovsky in 1919.

On 26 September 1920 the Revolutionary Military Council has issued an order number 1946, which reorganized The Moscow Aviation College into the Zhukovsky Red Air Fleet Institute of Engineers.

On September 9, 1922, the academy was renamed into Air Force Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky. In the summer of 1923, the academy moved to the Petrovsky Palace. In March 1940 the command, navigator, operational departments were separated into a new Gagarin Air Force Academy. Since 1940, the academy has prepared only the engineering staff for the Air Force.

In 2008, the academy was amalgamated with the Gagarin Air Force Academy to form a joint Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy. The full name of the new academy is Russian Air Force Military Educational and Scientific Center “Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky and Y. A. Gagarin”. For further history of the academy see the article on the Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy.

Among the academy graduates 865 were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, 61 twice, and Air Marshal Ivan Kozhedub this title was given three times, 89 people became laureates of the Lenin and State prizes. Among the graduates of academy – the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first man to walk in space Alexei Leonov, marshal of aviation Sergei Khudyakov, the famous aircraft designers Sergei Ilyushin, Artem Mikoyan and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev.