"Forge" engineering aviation personnel is no longer
Disassembled including full-size layouts aviation engines, on-board instruments and weapons. From September 1, the educational process on the territory of the former academy is terminated. Since 2007, the educational institution has not recruited cadets for training.
In 2008, the Zhukovsky Academy was merged with the Y.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy (Monino). At their base, the Air Force Military Training Center "Air Force Academy named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin" (Moscow, pgt. Monino) was created.
In recent years, students-listeners from the military were trained on the educational territory of the former Zhukovka, as well as senior students completed their education. The maximum number of military and civilian personnel of the joint university was determined in 4614 people. Then, as part of the formation of the new look of the Armed Forces, a decision was made to create in Voronezh a single military training scientific center of the Air Force with two branches to train core specialists. In this regard, the existing aviation universities, including the Air Force Academy named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin, are being eliminated.
History The Zhukovsky VVIA dates back to 1919, when, on the initiative of Professor Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, the first aviation technical school was established in Russia, the purpose of which was comprehensive theoretical and practical training for specialists in aircraft building, engine building and operation of aircraft and engine-aviation plants. Already in 1920, the Moscow Aviation Technical School was reorganized into the Institute of Red Air Engineers fleet named after N.E. Zhukovsky. In 1922, the university was given the name "Academy of the Air Fleet named after N. E. Zhukovsky." In 1923, it was decided to transfer it to the building of the former Petrovsky Palace, which was renamed the Red Aviation Palace. The Academy was assigned a large piece of land around the Peter Palace, where they built several educational buildings and dormitories for students and teachers.
Among the graduates of Zhukovka are well-known general designers Sergey Ilyushin, Artem Mikoyan, Alexander Yakovlev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, chief aviation marshals Konstantin Vershinin and Pavel Zhigarev, eight aviation marshals, 30 cosmonaut pilots, including the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and the first man in history, who went out into space, Alexey Leonov.
109 graduates of the Academy were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor (of which 17 people twice), 200 won the Lenin and State Prizes. Just a few years ago, more than 100 doctors and 400 candidates of science, more than 80 professors, 130 assistant professors and senior researchers, six State Prize winners, 18 Honored Scientists of the Russian Federation worked in the staff of Zhukovka.
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