5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army

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5th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence
Active2001–2009
CountryRussia
BranchRussian Air Force
Size2000s: ~ 3-5 air regiments
Garrison/HQYekaterinburg

The 5th Army of VVS and PVO (5-я Краснознамённая армия военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны) was the

Volga-Ural Military District, on the border between Europe and Asia
.

The army shared its numerical numbering, but little history/lineage, with the

Second World War
.

History

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the 4th Independent Air Defence Army of the former Soviet Air Defence Forces remained operating with its headquarters at Yekaterinburg. Either on 10 June 1994[1] or in December 1994 the army became the 5th Independent Air Defence Corps.[2] On 1 May 1998 this brought in air forces formations (as listed at [1] and [2]) and became the 5th Independent Corps of VVS and PVO. On 1 January 2001 (Holm, date of the directive?) or 1 June 2001 (Ivlev, note 1) the formation became the 5th Army of the VVS and PVO.[2]

Until October 2003 and the creation of the Russian airbase at

Samara and Engels), but also included two helicopter regiments and some other auxiliary units (seemingly the Balashov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (Saratov Oblast); the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (Orenburg Oblast); the Syzran Highest Military Aviation School of Pilots (Kuybyshev Oblast); the Saratov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (Saratov Oblast); the Ufa Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (Bashkirskaya ASSR); and the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation School of Navigators.[3]

The

Bolshoye Savino Airport 16 km southwest of Perm, within the 5th Air Army's zone, was subordinated directly to the Air Forces HQ in Moscow. In addition to the Kant airbase established in 2003, possibly another air base in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, was subordinate to the 5th A VVS i PVO. From July 2007 to its disbandment, the commander of the 5th Army was Lieutenant General Mikhail Kucheryavy.[4]

In 2007, 12 Mi-24 and 12 Mi-8s of the Army took part in the joint Sino-Russian exercise

On 7 May 2009 the Army was disbanded and its units incorporated within the new

Commanders

2007 Russian Structure

References

  1. .
  2. ^ a b Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 2009.
  3. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/army/vvspurvo.htm
  4. ^ 'Kucheryavy takes up post as Urals Air Force, Air Defense Army commander', AVN Military News Agency, MOSCOW. July 10, 2007 (Interfax-AVN) and Konfisakhor, Aleksandra; Fomicheva, Yekaterina (29 December 2016). "Вице-губернатором Ленобласти станет бывший руководитель Управления ФСТЭК по СЗФО Михаил Кучерявый" [Vice-governor of Leningrad Oblast is former director of the Northwestern Federal District FSTC Mikhail Kucheryavy]. DP Biznes Press (in Russian). Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  5. ^ "General Staff". warfare.ru. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  6. ^ "4-я армия ВВС и ПВО" [4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army] (in Russian). Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  7. ^ Holm 2017.
  8. ^ Source ru-wiki 5 VA page, accessed August 2009
  9. ^ Kommersant, http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=766827, May 2007
  10. ^ "511th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  11. ^ "134th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  12. ^ "793rd independent Helicopter Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.