Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Anti-Aircraft Warfare (Russian: Ярославское высшее военное училище противовоздушной обороны, romanized: Yaroslavskoye vyssheye voyennoye uchilishche protivovozdushnoy oborony) is a Russian higher military school conducting commissioned officer programmes (specialitet) and adjunctura programmes.
The school was raised to a higher military educational institution and renamed the Yaroslavl Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School (abbreviated YaVZRKU) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces in 1971, extending its study period to four years.
Cadets of the disbanded Ordzhonikidze (1990), Engels (1994), and Nizhny Novgorod (1999) VZRKUs of the PVO were merged into the school during the 1990s.
Since the disbandment of the latter, the school has been the only commissioning military educational institution in Russia preparing officers for the anti-aircraft missile forces of the PVO.
[1] During military reforms in 2009, the school was made a branch of the Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy.