Gagarin Air Force Academy
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| Type | Military Academy for Aviation |
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| Active | 1940–2011 |
| Students | future high-ranking military personnel for the Russian Air Force. |
| Location | Monino (Монино), Moscow Region., Russia |
Gagarin Air Force Academy (Russian: Военно-воздушная академия имени Ю. А. Гагарина) is the name of a Russian military aviation academy located in Monino (Монино), Moscow Region.
Gagarin Air Force Academy is one of the leading military educational institutions preparing high-ranking military personnel for the Russian Air Force.
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.
The Academy provides regiment and division-level commanding officers to fill commanding, staff, navigation, logistics, communications and radar-support positions.
Alternative academy name in the English-language literature is Yuri Gagarin Military Air Academy. In conversational speech often 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 still retains its Monino campus. Later in 2011 the Monino campus was closed.
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).
In 2008, Gagarin Air Force Academy was amalgamated with the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (Russian: ).
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".
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