Glossary of Soviet Military and Related Abbreviations

1 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY TECHNICAL MANUALGLOSSARY OFSOVIET MILITARYAND RELATEDABBREVIATIONSDEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY F FEBRUARY 1957TM 30-546 TECHNICAL manual DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMYNo. 30-546 WASHINGTON 25, D. C., 31 December 1956 Glossary OF Soviet Military AND RELATEDABBREVIATIONSPageTransliteration table for the Russian language .. iiAbbreviations for use with this manual .. iiiGrammatical Abbreviations .. ----ivForeword --------------------- -- ------------------------- ------------------------------ 1 Glossary of Soviet Military and Related 3 TRANSLITERATION TABLEFOR THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGEThe Russian alphabet has 33 letters, which are here listed together[th their transliteration as adopted by the Board on GeographicaP pdC c CT T cAl/dye,etyX xZA a AGB B 3 er rJCTA DB cSe"s)K3J G "0314 C 'H H KGOo (901L /'b *i,10 10j51 31pye initially, after vowel.]

2 Andl after 'b, b; e e1~ewhere. When written as a in Rusoian, transliteratea5~ yii or e. Use of diacritical marks is. preferred, but such marks may be omitted when expediency(apostrophe), palatalize. a preceding consonant, giving a sound resembling the consonant plusy!, somewhat as in English meet you, did symbol " (double apostrophel, not a repetition of the line above. No sound; used only aftercertain before the vowvel letter: c. e. 91. bhi biwABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS MANUALAAAAAAcftAdminAEAFAmmoAmphAnatAnlA rmdArtyAshATAutmvAutoAvnBallBinBrgBiowar CACamCarrCavCivCloCmdrCmlCml CCommConsCryptoElecEngrEqpFinFtnGGeolGli HInfInstIntelantiaircraftantiaircraft artilleryaircraftadministrative, administrationatomic energy, atomic physicsair forcesairfieldammunitionamphibian, amphibiousanatomyanimalarmoredartillerya irshipantitankautomotiveautomaticaviatio nballistic, ballisticsballoonbridgebiological warfarecoast artillerycamouflagecarriercavalrycivil, civilianclothingcommanderchemicalChemica l Corpscommunicationconstructioncryptograp hyelectric, electricityengineers, engineeringequipmentfinance, financialfortificationsgungeologic, , mathematicsmechanicalmedicalmeteorologic al, meteorologymachine gunmilitarymortarmotor transportmotornaval.)

3 Navyobstacleobservationobsoleteoperation ordnancephotographypoliticalprisoner of warparachutepsychological warfarerifleradioroadrailroadsmall armssearchlightsubmachinegunsound rangingsupply, suppliessurvey, surveyingtactical, tacticstechnicaltraffictelegram, telegraphtanktopographical, topographytelephonetransportationteletyp ewriterUnited NationsUnited States Army,United States of Marine CorpsveterinaryweaponGRAMMATICAL Abbreviations adjectiveadverbFeminine nounindeclinableintransitiveMasculine nounNeuter nounn nounpf perfectivepl plurals singulartr transitivev verbadjadvFindeclintrMNFOREWORDThis Glossary of Soviet Military and Related Abbreviations is acompanion volume to TM 30-544, Glossary of Soviet MilitaryTerminology. It contains, in addition to the most frequentlyencountered Soviet Military Abbreviations , selected abbrevia-tions of political, administrative, industrial, and scientific termslikely to be encountered in Military appear to be no Soviet rules governing the formationof Abbreviations .

4 Generally, Soviet Abbreviations are letters,syllables, combinations of syllables and letters or of syllablesand words, or the first and last syllables of a word. Use ofcapital letters and periods is often optional, and the form shownin this Glossary is the one believed to be encountered same abbreviation may stand for a confusing number oftotally different words; conversely, the same word may berepresented by variant Abbreviations . The meaning of an ab-breviation, therefore, often can be determined only from thecontext. A number of Abbreviations which have become acceptedas independent words are included in the Glossary , : cheka,narkom, kolkhoz, marked "Obsol" refer to organizations, activities, orconcepts which are no longer in existence or which now havedifferent names. They are included because they may still befound in old books and a table of symbols used in ballistics, refer to Appendix II.

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