Wikiwand AI

User:Kges1901/Draft List of Soviet Aviation Divisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An attempt at reorganizing the Aviation Division list in a more organized way, corresponding to the List of Soviet divisions 1917–45 and List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–57. I intend for this to be a fully referenced list with all information properly attributed. Any assistance would be welcome.

Entries should include the division's "combat path" if any and formation/disband dates as well as honorifics. Air bases operated from should be included if possible without making entry too long.

  • 103rd air division
  • 133rd air division
  • 134th long-range bombardment air division
  • 140th air division
  • 146th air division

Assault Aviation Divisions

See ru:Категория:Штурмовые авиационные дивизии СССР во время Великой Отечественной войны

Guards Assault Aviation Divisions

  • 1st Guards Assault Aviation Division – for a period part of 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps
  • 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 3rd Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 4th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 5th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 6th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 7th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 8th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 9th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 10th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 11th Guards Assault Aviation Division – formed 19.8.1944 from 299th Assault Aviation Division. Disbanded by being renamed as 200th Guards Assault Aviation Division in January 1949.
  • 12th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 15th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 114th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 115th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 135th Guards Assault Aviation Division
  • 200th Guards Assault Aviation Division – formed 8.11.42 as the 299th Assault Aviation Division. On 19.8.44 renamed 11th Guards Assault Aviation Division; became 200 Guards Assault Aviation Division 10.1.1949. With 75th Assault Aviation Corps 1949–55. In August 1956 renamed 200th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (IBAD). Returned home from Germany to USSR (Voronezh) before disbanding in 1957.[48]

Bomber Aviation Divisions

  • 12th Bomber Aviation Division – 26 December 1944 to 27 April 1946, then became 12th Transport Aviation Division and later, in 1955, 12th Military Transport Aviation Division.
  • 21st Bomber Aviation Division
  • 32nd Bomber Aviation Division
  • 33rd Bomber Aviation Division
  • 36th Bomber Aviation Division – Formed 1988 with 34th Air Army from 36th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division at Bolshoye Shiraki. Disbanded 1992.[49]
  • 56th Bomber Aviation Division – activated 1984; 24th Air Army; taken over by Ukraine 1992.
  • 83rd Bomber Aviation Division – formed from 83rd Mixed Aviation Division 1980.
  • 113th Bomber Aviation Division; 113th long-range air division; 113th bomber Leningrad red banner air division
  • 116th Bomber Aviation Division – formed 1949 by retitling 334th Bomber Aviation Division. 50th Air Army DA 1954–59. Disbanded 1959.[50]
  • 127th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 129th Bomber Aviation Division – Honorifics "Koenigsberg Order of Kutuzov"
  • 130th Bomber Aviation Division – Honorifics "Insterburg Order of Suvorov"
  • 132nd Bomber Aviation Division – Formed August 1941. Honorific "Sevastopol". Transferred to Baltic Fleet 1989 and renamed 132nd Maritime Assault Aviation Division.[51] Disbanded 1994 while headquartered at Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast.
  • 135th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 149th Bomber Aviation Division – Formed July 1982 with 4th Air Army at Szprotawa from 149th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division. Renamed 149th Mixed Aviation Division 1992. [52]
  • 157th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 179th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 181st Bomber Aviation Division – Honorifics "Chenstokhov Order of Kutuzov".
  • 183rd Bomber Aviation Division
  • 185th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 188th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 190th Bomber Aviation Division – Honorifics "Polotsk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov".
  • 193rd Bomber Aviation Division – Honorifics "Demblin Order of Suvorov".
  • 194th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 201st Bomber Aviation Division – Honorific "Stalingrad"
  • 202nd Bomber Aviation Division -Formed 21 October 1942 from 202nd Fighter Aviation Division. Honorifics "Mid-Don Red Banner Order of Suvorov on behalf of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR". Disbanded July 1947.
  • 203rd Bomber Aviation Division – Honorific "Znamianka"
  • 204th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 219th Bomber Aviation Division – established May 1942; disbanded December 1945.
  • 241st Bomber Aviation Division
  • 289th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 301st Bomber Aviation Division
  • 326th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 327th Bomber Aviation Division
  • 334th Bomber Aviation Division – formed 1943. Became 116th Bomber Aviation Division 1949.

Guards Bomber Aviation Divisions

  • 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division
  • 164th Guards Bomber Aviation Division
  • 177th Guards Bomber Aviation Division – established July 1942 as 293rd Bomber Aviation Division; became 8th Guards Bomber Aviation Division 5 February 1944; 10.1.49 renamed 177th Guards Bomber Aviation Division; disbanded July 1960. Honorifics "Cherkassy Red Banner Order of Suvorov". [53]

Heavy Bomber Aviation Divisions

  • 31st Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 53rd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 55th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 56th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 57th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 73rd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 79th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 106th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 116th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division - established to operate the Raduga KS-1 Komet (ASCC "Kennel").
  • 160th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division – Formed 1 March 1951 at Balbasovo with 79th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps. Included 291st and 402nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiments in 1953. Disbanded December 1959.[54]
  • 201st Heavy Bomber Aviation Division – Formed September 1954 at Engels-2 (air base), 14 kilometres east of Saratov, Saratov Oblast with 70th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps. Intended to operate the Myasishchev M-4 aircraft. Became part of 43rd Air Army DA 1956–1960, then 6th Separate Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps 1960–1980 and finally 37th Air Army. Disbanded 1994.[55]
  • 204th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division

Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Divisions

  • 11th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division - Activated July 1941 as the 81st Aviation Division Long-Range; 3.12.41 renamed 3rd Aviation Division Long-Range; 26.3.43 renamed 1st Guards Aviation Division Long-Range; 26 December 1944 renamed 11th Guards Bomber Aviation Division; disbanded 1959 (Holm).
  • 13th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division - longtime associated with Poltava Air Base in Ukraine.
  • 14th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 15th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
  • 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division – Formed 1950 from 22nd Guards Bomber Aviation Division at Babruysk (air base) in Belarus. Inherited honorifics "Donbass Red Banner". Moved to Engels, Saratov Oblast in 1994. [56]
  • 139th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division

Fighter Aviation Divisions

Guards Fighter Aviation Divisions

Fighter Air Defence Divisions (PVO)

  • 2nd Guards Fighter Aviation Division PVO – Formed 31 March 1943 from 102nd Fighter Aviation Division PVO. Fought in Crimean Offensive. Honorifics "Stalingrad Red Banner". Moved to Rostov-on-Don 1945 and disbanded there 1960.[97][98]
  • 101st Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 102nd Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 104th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 105th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 106th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 122nd Fighter Pechenga Air Defence Division - Luostari/Pechenga (air base), Karelia to c1960. "Yuri Gagarin's Own."
  • 123rd Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 124th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 125th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 126th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 127th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 141st Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 142nd Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 144th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 147th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 148th Fighter Air Defense Division (PVO)
  • 149th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 297th Fighter Aviation Division PVO – Formed August 1942 in Transbaikal Front. Fought in Soviet invasion of Manchuria.[99] Based in northeast China October 1950–1951, then moved to Smolensk, where it was disbanded in 1960.[100]
  • 298th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 310th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 317th Fighter Aviation Division PVO - formed June 1943, disbanded JUne 1946. In 1945-46 at Klin, Moscow Oblast, with 12th Guards, 34th, 488th, 736th Fighter Aviation Regiments all at Klin.[101]
  • 318th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 319th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 320th Fighter Aviation Division PVO
  • 328th Fighter Aviation Division PVO

Fighter-Bomber Aviation Divisions

Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Divisions

  • 1st Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division – Formed 1957 from 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division at Lida with 26th Air Army. Inherited honorifics "Stalingrad Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov". Became 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division July 1989.[115]
  • 135th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division
  • 200th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division – Formed August 1956 from 200th Guards Assault Aviation Division at Voronezh. Inherited honorifics "Nizhyn Red Banner Order of Suvorov". Disbanded 1957. [116]

Mixed Aviation Divisions

  • 1st Mixed Aviation Division – 14th Army Aviation, HQ Murmansk, Colonel M.M. Golovnya, disbanded February 1942.[117]
  • 2nd Mixed Aviation Division
  • 4th Mixed Aviation Division – became Air Forces of the 4th Shock Army 22 February 1942[118]
  • 5th Mixed Aviation Division – Formed July 1940 with Leningrad Military District Aviation with headquarters at Vyborg from 59th Light Aviation Brigade. Fought in the defense of the Karelian Isthmus. [119] Disbanded 18 February 1942.[120]
  • 6th Mixed Aviation Division – at outbreak of war in Baltic Special Military District, suffered heavy losses in initial German attack, became 48th Army aviation 11 August 1941; reformed immediately and disbanded 11 February 1942[121]
  • 7th Mixed Aviation Division- at outbreak of war in Baltic Special Military District, suffered heavy losses in initial German attack, became 3rd Shock Army aviation 22 February 1942
  • 10th Mixed Aviation Division – activated 1970 at Ucharal, Alma-Ata Oblast. Redesignated 10th Fighter Aviation Division in 1980. (Holm)
  • 24th Mixed Aviation Division – Formed September 1970 at Taldy-Kurgan with the 73rd Air Army. Became 24th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division 1980. [122]
  • 32nd or 33rd Mixed Aviation Division - c1941 included 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Far East
  • 55th Mixed Aviation Division – Formed prewar with Leningrad Military District Aviation at Petrozavodsk. Fought in defense of Karelia. Disbanded 7 March 1942.[123]
  • 83rd Mixed Aviation Division – Formed 1972 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport with 1st Air Army. Included 26th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment, 56th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment and 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment. Became 83rd Bomber Aviation Division 1980. [124]
  • 128th Mixed Aviation Division – Honorific "Kurile".
  • 135th Mixed Aviation Division
  • 203rd Mixed Aviation Division
  • 204th Mixed Aviation Division
  • 303rd Mixed Aviation Division – Reformed after 1994 with 11th Air Army, Far East.[113]

Military Transport and Special Purpose Aviation Divisions

  • 1st Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 2nd Special Purpose Aviation Division
  • 4th Special Purpose Aviation Division
  • 7th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 8th Special Purpose Aviation Division
  • 12th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 14th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 16th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 23rd Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 35th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 40th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 54th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 124th Military Transport Aviation Division
  • 281st Military Transport Aviation Division

Guards Military Transport and Special Purpose Aviation Divisions

References

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks