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 |
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1st Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Balashikha | 16th Air Army | surface-to-air missiles only | |
1st Guards Composite Aviation Division | SAD | Krasnodar | 4th Air Army | Su-24/Su-25/L-39 | Disbanded c.2009? |
7th Air Defence Division | дПВО | ? | Moscow District of the PVO | [1] | |
8th Special Purpose Aviation Division | адон | Chkalovsky Airport, Moscow Oblast | HQ VVS | transport aircraft [1] | |
5th Separate Air Defence Corps | Urals | HQ VVS | Redesignation of 4th Air Defence Army, 1994. Amalgamated into 5th Army of VVS and PVO, 1998. | ||
8th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Komsomolsk-na-Amure | 11 OA PVO (Far East) | Fighters, radars, SAMs | 2001 renamed 25th Air Defence Division; 2009 11th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
9th Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Kubinka (air base) | 16th Air Army | Fighters | Activated 1950-51. Disbanded in 2000s. |
9th Air Defence Division | дПВО | 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 | Il-76/An-22/An-124 | |
16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Millerovo | 4th Air Army | Fighters - arrived from GSFG 1993 | |
19th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Chelyabinsk | 4th Air Defence Army | Fighters, radars, SAMs | Disbanded 1994[2] |
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 Composite Air Division | SAD | Dzhida | 14th Air Army | Su-24M/Su-25/Su-24MR | |
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division | TBAD | Engels-2, Engels | 37th Air Army | Tu-22M3/Tu-95MS/Tu-160 | |
22nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Arkhangelsk | 10 OA PVO Murmansk | 1993 renamed 22 AD Corps; 1994 renamed 22 AD Div. | Disbanded 1.5.02.[3] |
23rd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Vladivostok | 11th Air Army | Su-27/MiG-25PU/MiG-31 | 2001 renamed 93rd ADD; 2009 renamed 12th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
25th Air Defence Division | дПВО | Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 11th Air Army | Su-27 | |
32nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Rzhev | Special Purpose Command | Su-27/MiG-31/MiG-25U | Also SAMs, radars |
38th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Novosibirsk | 14th Air Defence Army | Fighters, SAMs, radars | 1994 renamed 41st Air Defence Division |
50th Guards Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Atamanovka, Chita Oblast | 14th 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 |
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. |
94th Air Defence Division | KPVO | Irkutsk | 14th 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-24/Su-25 | |
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[]
- ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/472iap.htm
- ↑ Michael Holm, 19th Air Defence Corps, accessed December 2012.
- ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/23dpvo.htm.
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)
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