The I. S. Polbin Orenburg Red Banner Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots (Russian: Оренбургское высшее военное авиационное Краснознаменное училище лётчиков имени И. С. Полбина, OVVAKUL) was a flight training school of the Soviet Air Force, located in the city of Orenburg.
The Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots began as the Moscow School for Air Combat and Bombing, which began forming in accordance with a decree dated 10 August 1921.
By 1930, the school had trained 459 pilots, 2,078 observers, twenty aeronauts, 53 instructors, 956 air gunners, and more than 100 instructor pilots, and a large group of junior aviation specialists.
[1] More than 32,000 pilots, navigators and ground aviation specialists graduated from the school during its existence.
The Orenburg Cadet Corps, which conducts basic training in flying, aerospace engineering, anti-aircraft missile, and firefighting, took over its building.