| ABTU |
Avto-Brone-Tankovoe Upravlenie - the Truck-Armor-Tank Directorate, also see the GABTU |
| AMTORG |
Amerikanskaya Torgovlya - Trade Company with USA |
| Artkom |
Artillerijskiy Komitet - the Artillery Committee |
| BOT |
Bronirovannaya Ognevaya Tochka - Armored Firing Point |
| ChKZ |
Chelyabinskiy Kirovskiy Zavod - the Kirov Factory in Chelyabinsk |
| ChTZ |
Chelyabinskiy Traktorniy Zavod - the Tractor Factory in Chelyabinsk |
| CMVS |
Centralniy Muzei Voorushennikh Sil - Central Museum of the Armed Forces |
| DT |
Degtyarev Tankoviy - the machine-gun developed by V.A.Degtyarev |
| GAZ |
Gorkovskiy Avromobilnij Zavod - the Gorkij Automobile Factory |
| GAU |
Glavnoe Artilleristkoye Upravlenie - the Chief Artillery Department |
| GABTU |
Glavnoe Avto-Brone-Tankovoe Upravlenie - the Chief Truck-Armor-Tank Directorate |
| GBTU |
Glavnoe BroneTankovoe Upravlenie - the Chief Tank Department |
| GKB |
Glavnoe Konstruktorskoe Buro - the Chief Design Bureau |
| GPU |
Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye - State Political Administration (secret police), also see OGPU |
| GKO |
Gosudarstvennij Komitet Oboroniy - the State Defense Committee |
| GOKO |
see the GKO |
| GULAG |
Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei - Main Council of Prisoner Camps |
| GUVP |
Glavnoe Upravlenie Voennoi Promyshlennosti - Main Council of Military Industry |
| KA |
usually Krasnaya Armiya - Red Army |
| KB |
Konstruktorskoe Buro - Design Bureau |
| KhPZ |
Kharkovskij Parovozostroitelnij Zavod - Kharkov Locomotive Factory |
| KVZhD |
Kitaisko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga - the Eastern-Chinese Rail Road |
| KTZ |
Kirovskij Tankovij Zavod - the Kirov Tank Factory |
| Narkom |
Narodniy Komissar - Peoples' Commissar (equal to Minister) |
| Narkomat |
Narodniy Komissariat - Peoples' Commissariat (equal to Ministry) |
| Narkomvoenmor |
Narodniy Komissar po Voennim i Morskim Delam - Peoples' Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs |
| NKB |
Naucho-konstruktorskoye Byuro - the Research Design Bureau |
| NKO |
Narodnyi Kommisariat Oborony - the People's Commissariat of Defense |
| NKSM |
Narodnyi Kommisariat Srednego Mashinostroeniya - the People's Commissariat of the Medium Machine-Building |
| NKV |
Narodnyi Kommisariat Vooruzhenij - the People's Commissariat of Armaments |
| NKVM |
Narodnyi Kommisariat Voennogo Mashinostroeniya - the People's Commissariat of the War Machine-Building |
| NKVD |
Narodnyi Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del - the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs |
| NKTP |
Narodij Komissariat Tankovoj Promyslennosti - the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry |
| NTK |
Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Komitet - the Scientific-Technical Committee |
| OAT |
Orudiino-Arsenal'nyi Trest - Artillery Arsenal Trust |
| ODVA |
Otdel'naya Dalnevostochnaya Armiya - Independent Far East Army |
| OGPU |
Ob'edinennoye Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye - Unified State Political Administration (secret police), also see GPU |
| OKB |
Opytno-Konstruktorskoe Buro - the Pilot Design Bureau |
| OSOAVIAKhIM |
Obshestvo Sodeistviya Oborone, Aviatzionnomy i Khimicheskomy Stroitel'stvu - The Association for Assistance of Defense, Aircraft and Chemical Development. |
| OTTPP |
Otdelniy Tyazhelij Tankovij Polk Proriva - Independent Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment (also see TTPP) |
| RGAKFD |
Rossijskii Gosudarstvennii Arkhiv Kino-Foto-Dokumentov - Russian State Archive of Films and Photo Documents |
| RGAE |
Rossijskii Gosudarstvennii Arkhiv Ekonomiki - Russian State Archive of Economy |
| RGK |
Rezerv Glavnogo Komandovaniya - a Reserve of the High Command. |
| RKKA |
Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya - the Army of Workers and Peasants, or simply the Red Army. |
| RSFSR |
Rossijskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federativnaya Sovetskaya Respublika - Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, one of 15 Soviet republics. Today, it is Russian Federation. |
| RVS |
(or Revvoensovet) Revolutionniy Voennij Sovet - the Revolutionary Military Council. |
| RVGK |
Rezerv Verkhovnogo Glavnokomandovaniya - see RGK. |
| SAP |
Samokhodno-Artillerijskij Polk - the Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment |
| SKB |
Samostoyatelnoe Konstruktorskoe Buro - the Independent Design Bureau |
| SNK |
Sovet Narodnikh Komissarov - the Council of Peoples' Commissars (Council of Ministers) |
| Sovnarkom |
see the SNK |
| STZ |
Stalingradskij Traktornij Zavod - the Stalingrad Tractor Factory |
| TSAP |
Tyazhelij Samokhodno-Artillerijskij Polk - the Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment |
| TsK VKP(b) |
Tsentral'niy Komitet Vsesojuznoi Kommunisticheskoi Partii (bolshevikov) - the Central Comittee of the All-Union Communist Party (of bolsheviks), later VKP(b) was renamed to CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) |
| TTPP |
Tyazhelij Tankovij Polk Proriva - the Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment |
| TsAKB |
Tsentral'noye Artillerijckoe Konstruktorskoe Buro - the Central Artillery Design Bureau |
| UZTM |
Uralskiy Zavod Tyazhelogo Mashinostroyeniya - the Ural Heavy Machine-Building Factory |
| UMMA or UMM RKKA |
Upravlenie Motorizatzii i Mekhanizatzii Armii - the Directorate of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army |
| VIM BTVT |
Voenno-Istoricheskij Musej Bronetankovogo Vooruzheniya i Tekhniki - the Military-Historical Museum of Armored Transporters and Tanks |
| VOAO |
Vsesoiuznoe Orudiino-Arsenal'noe Ob'edineniye - All-Union Artillery Arsenal Association |
| VSNKh |
Vysshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaistva - the Supreme Soviet of the People's Economy |
| YaAZ |
Yaroslavskij Avtomobilniy Zavod - the Yaroslavskiy Automoblile Factory |
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