16th Air Army
16th Red Banner Air Army | |
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Part of | Group of Soviet Forces in Germany |
Engagements | World War II |
Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Sergey Rudenko |
The 16th Red Banner Air Army (
World War II
The army began forming on 8 August 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad and originally included the 220th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) and 228th Assault Aviation Division (ShAD) of the 8th Air Army, as well as two separate aviation regiments. Around the end of August and the beginning of September, the 283rd IAD and 291st Mixed Aviation Division (SAD) arrived from the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. On 4 September, the army had 152 serviceable aircraft, composed of Yakovlev Yak-1 and Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 fighters, Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik ground attack aircraft, and Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bombers.
It took part in Operation Uranus, the counteroffensive that successfully cut off German troops in Stalingrad, as part of the Don Front during November and December 1942, under the command of Major General Sergei Rudenko.[1] On 19 November, when the offensive began, the army had a total of 249 serviceable aircraft.[2]
It was involved in the
In Germany
On 29 May 1945,
- 3rd Bomber Aviation Corps (Finow, East Germany)
- 183rd Bomber Aviation Division (Oranienburg, East Germany)
- 241st Bomber Aviation Division (Werneuchen, East Germany)
- 301st Bomber Aviation Division (Finow, East Germany)
- 6th Bomber Aviation Corps (Szprotava, Poland)
- 113th Bomber Aviation Division (Poznan-Kreising, Poland)
- 326th Bomber Aviation Division (Sagan, Poland)
- 334th Bomber Aviation Division (Poznan-Lawica, Poland)
- 6th Assault Aviation Corps (Finsterwalde, East Germany)
- 197th Assault Aviation Division (Strausberg, East Germany)
- 198th Assault Aviation Division (East Germany)
- 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Division (Wittstock/Rechlin, East Germany)
- 9th Assault Aviation Corps (Finsterwalde, East Germany)
- 3rd Guards Assault Aviation Division (Finsterwalde, East Germany)
- 300th Assault Aviation Division (Cottbus, East Germany)
- 11th Guards Assault Aviation Division (Jüterbog-Altes Lager, East Germany)
- 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps(Perleberg, East Germany)
- 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Ludwigslust, East Germany)
- 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Perleberg, East Germany)
- 240th Fighter Aviation Division (Tutow, East Germany)
- 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps (Lager Döberitz-Falkensee, East Germany)
- 265th Fighter Aviation Division (Brandenburg, East Germany)
- 278th Fighter Aviation Division (Elstal, East Germany)
- 286th Fighter Aviation Division (Dallgow, East Germany)
- 13th Fighter Aviation Corps (Halle/Leipzig area, Germany)
- 193rd Fighter Aviation Division (Altenburg, East Germany)
- 283rd Fighter Aviation Division (Köthen or Halle, East Germany)
- 282nd Fighter Aviation Division (Grossenhain, East Germany)
- 9th Guards Night-Bomber Aviation Division (Straussberg, East Germany)
- 16th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Schönwalde, East Germany)
- 93rd independent Artillery Correction Regiment (Fürstenwalde, East Germany)
- 98th independent Artillery Correction Regiment (Zerbst, East Germany)
- 226th Separate mixed wing (Sperenberg Airfield, East Germany)
- 62nd Guards Aviation Regiment GVF (Berlin-Adlershof, East Germany)
- 919th independent Communications Aviation Squadron (East Germany)
For a long period after the war, the army was stationed with the
Withdrawal from Germany
The 16th Air Army ceremonially said farewell to Germany at the Sperenburg Open Day on 27 May 1994.[4] On that day the Air Army Headquarters was moved to Kubinka in the Moscow Military District.[5] However the last aircraft from the 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment did not leave Sperenberg Airfield until 6 September 1994. A visiting Il-76MD was the last aircraft movement three days later.
In 1989 it consisted of subordinate units and formations as follows:[6]
- Headquarters, Zossen-Wünsdorf
- 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Merseburg)
- 296th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Großenhain)
- 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Falkenberg/Elster)
- 85th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Merseburg)
- 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kobiz)
- 139th Aviation Technical Regiment (Merseburg)
- Damgarten)
- 126th Fighter Aviation Division (Zerbst)
- 35th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Zerbst)
- 833rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (Altes Lager (Menzlin))
- 125th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Rechlin)
- 19th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lerz)
- 20th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Groß Dölln)
- 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Großenhain)[7]
- 296th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Großenhain)
- 559th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Finsterwalde)
- 911th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Brand)
- Separate units, directly subordinated to the 16th Air Army
- 4th Air Army)[8]
- 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment (Sperenberg, later relocated to Kubinka, see below)
- 357th Separate Assault Aviation Regiment (Brandis, Germany)
- 368th Separate Assault Aviation Regiment (4th Air Army)
- See also
Airfields on German territory
The list below contains the main airfields of the 16th Air Army. The appropriate airfield call sign with the correlating nickname of the communications center is put in "quotation marks":
In the Russian Federation
On 1 June 1998, the 16th Air Army was disbanded and its units incorporated into the Moscow District of VVS and PVO, in accordance with the amalgamation of the Air Forces and the
The 16th Air Army was planned in 2007 to receive two regiments of the advanced Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers.[citation needed]
As part of the extensive reorganization of the Russian Air Force in 2009, the army was withdrawn from the Special Purpose Command on 1 July, and its disbandment was completed by 1 December.[12] Most of its units were transferred to the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command.
2007 structure
- 237th Guards Air Technology Demonstration Centre – Su-27, Su-27M, L-39C)
- 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment – Kubinka
- 83rd Separate Communications Regiment – Kubinka
- 105th Mixed Aviation Division, Voronezh
- 455th Bomber Aviation Regiment – Su-24, being replaced by Su-34)
- 899th Assault Aviation Regiment – Buturlinovka (Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft, being also replaced with Su-34)
- 455th Bomber Aviation Regiment –
- 47th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment – Shatalovo (MiG-25 and Su-24MR in service)
- 14th Guards Leningrad Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment – Kursk Vostochny Airport (MiG-29) Arrived Zherdevka (air base) in 1991, moved to Khalino-Kursk in 1998 or 1999.[14]
- 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment – Andreapol (air base) (MiG-29)
- 45th Separate Helicopter Regiment – Mi-9(airborne command post and relay))
- 440th Separate Helicopter Regiment – Vyazma (attack helicopter, Mil Mi-9)
- 490th Separate Helicopter Regiment – Tula (attack helicopter, Mil Mi-9)
Commanding generals
Commanding generals of the 16th Air Army were as follows:
- Pavel Stepanov, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1942)
- Sergey Rudenko, Colonel general of the aviation (1942-1947)
- Filipp Agaltsov, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1947-1949)
- Vyatseslv Zabaluev, Major general of the aviation (1949-1950)
- Konstantin Vershinin, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1950-1951)
- Ivan Podgorny, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1951-1954)
- Evgeny Loginov, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1954-1956)
- Geory Zimin, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1956-1960)
- Ivan Pstygo, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1960-1967)
- Aleksey Katrits, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1967-1973)
- Aleksandr Babaev, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1973-1978)
- Vladimir Korotskin, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1978-1983)
- Aleksey Goryaniov, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1983-1987)
- Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1987-1988)
- Anatoly Trasenko, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1988-1993)
- Boris Kazatsky, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1993-1998)
- Valery Retunsky, Lieutenant general of the aviation (1998-2007)
- Aleksandr Belevits, Major general of the aviation (2007-2009)
References
Citations
- ^ "Uranus Order of Battle". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
- ^ Prussakov et al. 1973, p. 45.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "16th Red Banner Air Army". ww2.dk. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Chris Lofting & Kieron Pilbeam, 'Sperenburg,' Air Forces Monthly, February 1995, p. 41.
- ^ ISBN 1-880588-84-6, p.87
- ISBN 5-235-02221-1. Archived from the originalon 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
- ^ See also Michael Holm, 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division, accessed November 2011
- ^ Separate units list is translated from http://www.genstab.ru/gsvg_16.htm Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, translation of base names from Orbat.com, Archive – Warsaw Pact in 1989 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bozhyeva, Olga (7 February 2002). Возвращение Знамени [Return of the Banner]. Krasnaya Zvezda (in Russian). Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ 'Twin Base Training,' Air Forces Monthly, December 2002
- ^ Vad777. 16-я воздушная армия [16th Air Army]. ww8.brinkster.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Завершается история Шестнадцатой воздушной армии [Story of the 16th Air Army Ends]. vesti.ru (in Russian). 8 August 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ Butowski, Piotr (July 2007). "Force Report: Russian Air Force". Air Forces Monthly. p. 82.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "14th Guards Leningradskiy Red Banner order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment im. Zhdanov".
Bibliography
- Prussakov, G.K.; Vasiliev, A.A.; Ivanov, I.I.; Komarov, G.O. (1973). 16-я воздушная. Военно-исторический очерк о боевом пути 16-й воздушной армии (1942—1945) [16th Air: Military-Historical Essay on the Combat Path of the 16th Air Army, 1942–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat.
External links
- Woezik, Rene van, and Lok, Joris Janssen, "Working up to leaving: despite withdrawal, the Soviet Air Force in Germany is being modernised", ISSN 0265-3818) Jane's Information Group.
- Soviet ORBAT from last years in Germany (in Russian)
- https://archive.today/20080110072449/http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/russia/air/va/16va_mvo.htm (in Russian)
- http://oko-planet.su/politik/politikarm/13853-v-rossijskoj-armii-sozdano-komandovanie-vozdushno.html – new Operational-Strategic Command for Air and Space Defence reported. The command will be established by the end of 2010 and located at Balashikha near Moscow, where the previous 1st Air Defence Corps was located.