The previous name's translation was the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation Red Banner Navigation School named after the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol (CHVVAKUSH) (Russian: Челябинское высшее военное авиационное краснознамённое училище штурманов им 50-летия ВЛКСМ, ЧВВАКУШ).

The Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation School for Navigators was created on 1 October 1936, in accordance with the General Staff of the Red Army Directive № 4/3/34338 from 13 February 1936.

It received the name "The 15th Military School of Aircraft Observers" of the normal type with a training period of three years.

During World War II the school graduated 25 groups of navigators, gunners, 18 groups wireless operators, trained about 8000 aviation professionals, and created and sent to the front five air regiments and an air squadron.

[1][2][3] Order of the Russian Minister of Defence on July 12, 2011 N 1136 liquidated subsidiaries of the academy in the cities of Yeysk (Krasnodar Krai), Saint Petersburg and Chelyabinsk.