ODVF was but the first in a series of official “voluntary” organizations created in the 1920s by Bolshevik leaders to channel citizens into working on behalf of Party-mandated causes. Typically, the success of these organizations was measured not by qualitative performance but, rather, by the size their membership.

Ironically, by July 1925 ODVF had ceased to exist. In May 1925 the organization was merged with the “Society of Friends of Chemistry” to create the “new” society Aviakhim (Friends of Aviation and the Chemical Industry).