A - Administration
ABTU - Avto-Brone-Tankovoe Upravlenie - the Truck-Armor-Tank Directorate, also see the GABTU.
AKFD - Archive of film and photographic documents.
AMTORG - Amerikanskaya Torgovlya - Trade Company with USA.
Artkom - Artillerijskiy Komitet - the Artillery Committee.
ASSR - Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
BCPX - All-Russia Trade Union of Chemical Industry Workers.
BCXB & BDHX - Exhibition of Successes of the Soviet Agriculture, BCXB CCCP, later BDHX CCCP.
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.
DOBROKhIM - Society of Friends of Chemical Defense and Chemical Industry
DOSAAF - Dobrovolhnoe Obxestvo Sodeistviâ Armii Aviacii i Flotu - voluntary society of assistance to army, aviation and navy.
DT - Degtyarev Tankoviy - the machine-gun developed by V.A.Degtyarev.
ENSV - Eesti Nuokogoude Sosialistemaaks Vabariig (Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic).
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.
GIRD - Gruppa po Izucheniyu Reaktivnogo Dvizhenia - Group for the Study of Jet Propulsion.
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.
HTO - Научное и Общество Текникал - Scientific and Tecnical Society.
KA - usually Krasnaya Armiya - Red Army.
KB - Konstruktorskoe Buro - Design Bureau.
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti - Committe of State Security
KhPZ - Kharkovskij Parovozostroitelnij Zavod - Kharkov Locomotive Factory.
Komsomol (TsK VLKSM) - A youth political organization.
KVVMU - Kaliningrad Higher Naval School
KVVMY - Red Banner Vladivostok Higher Naval School.
KVZhD - Kitaisko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga - the Eastern-Chinese Rail Road.
KTZ - Kirovskij Tankovij Zavod - the Kirov Tank Factory.
LIAP - Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instruments.
MAI - Moscow aviation institute.
MIFI - Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering.
MMU - Murmansk Maritime School (fishing fleet)
MVIMU - Murmansk Higher School of Navy Engineers.
MODVF - Moscow Society of Friends of the Air-Fleet.
Narkom - Narodniy Komissar - Peoples' Commissar (equal to Minister)
Narkomat - Narodniy Komissariat - Peoples' Commissariat (equal to Ministry).
Narkomfin - People's Commissariat of finance.
Narkomiust - People's Commissariat of justice.
Narkomnats - People's Commissariat for nationalities.
Narkompros - People's Commissariat of education.
Narkomtrud - People's Commissariat of labour.
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.
ODVF - Society of Friends of the Air-Fleet.
OGPU - Ob'edinennoye Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye - Unified State Political Administration (secret police), also see GPU
OKB - Opytno-Konstruktorskoe Buro - the Pilot Design Bureau.
OKDVA - Osobaya Krasnoznamennaya Dal'nevostochnaya Armiya - ("Special Red Banner Far East Army")
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).
PVKhO - Ready for Anti-Aircraft and Chemical Defense.
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.
RKKVF - Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnayy Vozdushnyy Flot - Workers' and Peasants' Red Air Force. (Air Force name from 1918-1924,renamed to VVS in 1924).
RKP(b) - Russian Communist Party (of the bolsheviks).
RKSM - Russian Communist Union of Youth RLKSM from 1924, and VLKSM from 1926

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) Sovnarkomsee 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.
VChK - All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for combatting counter-revolution and sabotage.
VIKZhEL - All-Union executive committee of railway trade unions.
VIM BTVT - Voenno-Istoricheskij Musej Bronetankovogo Vooruzheniya i Tekhniki - the Military-Historical Museum of Armored Transporters and Tanks.
VKP(b) - All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
VOAO - Vsesoiuznoe Orudiino-Arsenal'noe Ob'edineniye - All-Union Artillery Arsenal Association.
VOKhR - Voiska Vnutrennei Okhrany Respubliki -Troops of Internal Security of the Republic
VOKS - All-Union society for cultural links with foreign countries.
VSNKh - Vysshiy Sovet Narodnogo Khozyaistva - the Supreme Soviet of the People's Economy.
VTsIK - All-Russian central executive committee.
VTsSPS - All-Russian central council of trade unions.
YaAZ - Yaroslavskij Avtomobilniy Zavod - the Yaroslavskiy Automoblile Factory.