5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
5th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence | |
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Active | 2001–2009 |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Russian Air Force |
Size | 2000s: ~ 3-5 air regiments |
Garrison/HQ | Yekaterinburg |
The 5th Army of VVS and PVO (5-я Краснознамённая армия военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны) was the
.The army shared its numerical numbering, but little history/lineage, with the
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
The
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
- General-Lieutenant Nikolay Petrovich Timofeev, 1990 - 1995[7]
- General-Lieutenant Nikolay Ivanovich Makarchuk, 1995 - 1997
- General-Lieutenant Evgeniy Leonidovich Yurev, 1997 - 6.07
- General-Lieutenant Mikhail Kucheryavy , June 2007 - 2009
2007 Russian Structure
- Headquarters, 5th Air Army - Yekaterinburg
- 30th Aviation Base - HQ at An-26(former 142nd Independent Composite Air Squadron);
- 303rd Independent Helicopter Squadron (Hisor, Tajikistan)[8]
- 320th Independent Transport Squadron of Search & Rescue Service - HQ at Uprun (Troitsk), near Chelyabinsk - Mi-8;
- 999th Air Base - HQ at Su-25;[9]
- 30th Aviation Base - HQ at
- 76th Air Defence Division (Samara)
- 511th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Engels, Saratov Oblast)[10]
- 185th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (former 57th SAM Brigade) (Beryozovsky/Берёзовский, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
- 568th(?) Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Samara) - in December 1993 renamed from 134th Red Banner Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade[11]
- One radiotechnical brigade, one radiotechnical regiment (radar)
- Army Aviation component
- 793rd Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Kinel'-Cherkasy - Mi-8, Mi-26;[12]
- 237th Independent Helicopter Squadron - HQ at Bobrovka - Mi-8, Mi-24;
- 793rd Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Kinel'-Cherkasy - Mi-8,
References
- ISBN 978-5-04-370389-7.
- ^ a b Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 2009.
- ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/army/vvspurvo.htm
- ^ '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.
- ^ "General Staff". warfare.ru. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Holm 2017.
- ^ Source ru-wiki 5 VA page, accessed August 2009
- ^ Kommersant, http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=766827, May 2007
- ^ "511th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
- ^ "134th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
- ^ "793rd independent Helicopter Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
- Holm, Michael (2017). "4th independent Air Defence Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
- Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (2009). "История Уральского объединения ВВС и ПВО" [History of the Ural Air and Air Defence Forces Organization] (in Russian). Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- Air Forces Monthly, July & August 2007 issues.