List of corps and divisions of the Russian Air Force
This is an incomplete list of corps and Aviation Divisions of the Russian Air Force and Russian Air Defence Force (PVO) active from 1992 to the present.
| Corps/Division | Type | Headquarters | Formation | Equipment | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Balashikha | 16th Air Army | surface-to-air missiles only | |
| 1st Air Defense Division | dPVO | Severomorsk | 45th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
1st Guards Composite Aviation Division
|
SAD | Krasnodar | 4th Air Army
|
Su-25/L-39
|
Disbanded 2009[1] |
2nd Air Defense Division
|
dPVO | ||||
| 3rd Air Defense Division | dPVO | 45th Air and Air Defense Army | |||
| 4th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 5th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 7th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Kursk | Moscow Order of Lenin Air Defence District | Fighters, radars, SAMs | 1994 Reorganization of the 7th Air Defence Corps, Disbanded 1998[2] |
| 8th Special Purpose Aviation Division | ADON | Chkalovsky Airport, Moscow Oblast
|
HQ VVS | transport aircraft [1] | |
| 5th Separate Air Defence Corps | Urals | HQ VVS | Redesignation of 4th Independent Air Defence Army, 1994. Amalgamated into 5th Army of VVS and PVO, 1998. | ||
8th Air Defence Corps
|
KPVO | Komsomolsk-na-Amure
|
11th Independent Air Defence Army
|
Fighters, radars, SAMs | 2001 renamed 25th Air Defence Division; 2009 11th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
| 9th Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Kubinka (air base) | Air Forces of the Moscow Military District
|
Fighters | Activated 1 February 1951. Disbanded 1993.[3] |
| 9th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Moscow Military District | 1st Air Defence Corps | Surface to air missiles | May include S-400 units
|
| 12th Military Transport Aviation Division | VTAD | Migalovo
|
61st Air Army
|
An-124
| |
| 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Millerovo | 4th Air Army
|
Fighters - arrived from GSFG 1993 | |
| 19th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Chelyabinsk | 4th Independent Air Defence Army | Fighters, radars, SAMs | Disbanded 1994[4] |
| 20th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Perm | 4th Air Defence Army | Disbanded 1994. | |
21st Air Defence Corps
|
KPVO | Severomorsk | 6th Air Army | SAMs, radars, Su-27/MiG-31 | 2009 renamed 1st Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
| 21st Mixed Aviation Division | SAD | Dzhida | 14th Air Army | Su-24M/Su-25/Su-24MR | |
| 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division | TBAD | Engels
|
37th Air Army | Tu-160
| |
| 22nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Arkhangelsk | 10th Independent Air Defence Army | 1993 renamed 22 AD Corps; 1994 renamed 22 AD Div. | Disbanded 1.5.02.[5] |
| 23rd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Vladivostok | 11th Independent Air Defence Army
|
Su-27/MiG-25PU/MiG-31 | 2001 renamed 93rd ADD; 2009 renamed 12th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
| 22nd Guards Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 25th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | Su-27 | |
| 26th Guards Air Defence Division | dPVO | Chita | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
| 28th Air Defense Division | dPVO | Created in 1963 on the basis of the former 25h Air Defense Corps, disbanded in 1998. Reformed as 76th Air Defense Division | |||
| 31st Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 32nd Air Defense Division | dPVO | Rzhev | 6th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
| 32nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Rzhev | Special Purpose Command | MiG-25 U
|
Renamed 32nd Air Defense Division |
| 38th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Novosibirsk | 14th Independent Air Defence Army
|
Fighters, SAMs, radars | 1994 renamed 41st Air Defence Division |
| 41st Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 44th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
| 50th Guards Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Atamanovka, Chita Oblast | 14th Independent Air Defence Army
|
1.12.98 renamed 26th Guards ADD; 2009 renamed 10th Gds Aerospace Defence Brigade. | |
51st Air Defence Corps
|
KPVO | Rostov on Don
|
4th Air Army | Su-27/MiG-29 | 1992 renamed 51st Air Defence Corps. Also SAMs, radars |
| 51st Air Defense Division | dPVO | Novocherkassk | 4th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
54th Air Defence Corps
|
KPVO | Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast | 6th Air Army | Su-27 | 2009 renamed 2nd Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
| 56th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Semipalatinsk
|
14 OA PVO | Fighters, SAMs, radars | Disbanded 1994. |
| 72nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka | 11 OA PVO | Fighters, SAMs, radars | 1990 merger of 6 and 24 Air Defence Divisions; August 1994 renamed 6th Air Defence Division. May 1998 renamed VVS and PVO OKVS (VVS and PVO Northeast Russian Federation).[6] |
| 76th Air Defense Division | dPVO | Samara | 14th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
| 93rd Air Defense Division | dPVO | Vladivostok | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
| 94th Air Defence Division | KPVO | Irkutsk | 14th Independent Air Defence Army
|
Fighters, SAMs, radars | Fmr 39 ADC (2/88). 1998 merged with 50th Gds ADC, became 26 Gds ADD. |
105th Composite Aviation Division
|
SAD | Voronezh | Special Purpose Command | Su-25
| |
| 149th Mixed Aviation Division | SAD | Smuravyevo | 76th Air Army | Su-24 | Disbanded 1998[7] |
| 303rd Mixed Aviation Division | Khurba
|
11th Air and Air Defense Army | Mig-31, SU-35, SU-34 | ||
| 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division | TBAD | Ukrainka | 37th Air Army | Tu-22M3/MR, Tu-95MS |
Index of abbreviations
- дПВО (dPVO) - Air Defence Division (Diviziya Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona)
- KPVO - Air Defence Corps (Korpus Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona)
- OA PVO - Independent Army of the Air Defence Forces
- SAD - Composite Aviation Division (Smeshannaya Aviatsionnaya Diviziya)
- TBAD - Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Tiazholaya Bombardirovochnaya Aviatsionnaya Diviziya)
- VTAD - Military Transport Aviation Division (Voyenno-Transportnaya Aviatsionnaya Diviziya)
Notes
- ^ Holm, Michael. "1st Guards Stalingradskaya order of Lenin twice Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Bomber Aviation Division". ww2.dk. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "7th Air Defence Corps". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^ Holm, www.ww2.dk/new/vvs.htm
- ^ Michael Holm, 19th Air Defence Corps, accessed December 2012.
- ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/23dpvo.htm. Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Michael Holm, 6th Air Defence Division, accessed 2016.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "149th Bomber Aviation Division". ww2.dk. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
References
- Piotr Butowski. Force report:Russian Air Force, Air Forces Monthly, July & August 2007 issues.
- Feskov, V.I., et al. The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War: 1945-91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
External links
- http://ww2doc.50megs.com/Issue38/Issue38_085.html - some PVO divisions of the Soviet Red Army, July 1941 (Russian)