Fedotov Test Pilot School

[1][2][3] The school was established in 1947 when Russia was part of the USSR and is named after Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov, a test pilot who was killed in an aircraft crash in the 1980s.

They underwent theoretical and practical training to allow safe and effective flight testing of the aircraft and on-board equipment.

Initially there were three departments: for training test pilots for fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft; and air navigators to be employed by the Soviet design bureaus (OKB), research institutes (like GFRI, etc.)

Generally any company-employer choose a person having an apartment to live, with local residence permit, who already has everything, but not by the fact that he is the best pilot.

[2] Fixed and rotary wing aircraft are available for training from the fleet of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.