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6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army

March 10, 2023

The 6th Red Banner Leningrad Army of Air and Air Defence Forces (Russian: 6-я Краснознамённая Ленинградская армия Военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны)[1] is an Air Army of the Russian Air Force.

6th Red Banner Leningrad Army of VVS and PVO (1998–2009; 2015–present)
6th Independent Army of PVO (1960? - 1998)
6-я Краснознамённая Ленинградская армия Военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны
2010s insignia of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
Active
  • 1960 – 1980
  • 1986 – 2009
  • 2015 – Present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Air Force
RoleAir support and air defence
SizeAir army
HeadquartersSaint Petersburg
Nickname(s)Army of the "Road of Life"
Motto(s)"Securely guarding the North-West sky of Russia" (Russian: “Надежно охраняем небо Северо-Запада России")
EquipmentInterceptors, multiple integrated SAM systems
EngagementsSiege of Leningrad
Decorations Order of the Red Banner
HonorificsLeningrad
Commanders
Current
commander		Major General Oleg Makovetskiy
Insignia
Insignia of the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command
Aircraft flown
BomberSu-24, Su-34
FighterSu-27, Su-35, Su-30, Su-27
HelicopterMi-8, Mi-24
InterceptorMiG-31
ReconnaissanceSu-24MR
TransportAn-12, An-26, Mi-8, Tu-134;

The army was first active from 1998 to 2009, and was reformed in 2015. After the war, the Soviet Air Defence Forces' main command in the Leningrad area from 1960 was the 6th Independent Air Defence Army. As of 2020 it is the principal frontal aviation formation within the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

History

Origins

The army traces its lineage back to the formation of the 2nd Air Defence Corps before Operation Barbarossa, the World War II German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The corps provided direct cover for the city, and the Air Forces of the Leningrad Military District had two fighter aviation divisions for air defense, which became the 7th Fighter Aviation Corps in July. In November, the 2nd Corps was reorganized into the Leningrad Air Defence Corps Region, but on 5 April 1942 it became the Leningrad Air Defence Army. During the Siege of Leningrad between 1941 and 1944, the air defence formations protecting the city claimed more than 1,500 German aircraft destroyed, and covered the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga. In the fall of 1945, after the end of the war, the army was reorganized into the 16th Special Air Defence Corps, which was redesignated the 16th Air Defence Corps in May 1946 and the 16th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Corps PVO in July 1947. In early 1949, the headquarters of the Leningrad Air Defence Region was formed from the corps headquarters. In August, its anti-aircraft artillery divisions conducted an exercise in which they practiced repelling a large enemy air raid.[2]

The region was an air defence region of the 2nd category, and in the spring of 1954 became 1st category, tasked with providing air defense for Leningrad and the Leningrad Military District. On 1 May 1953, it included four fighter aviation divisions part of the 25th Fighter Air Defence Army (the 20th, 41st, 44th, and the 50th), three anti-aircraft artillery divisions (the 25th, 29th, and the 42nd), a separate anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and seven separate anti-aircraft artillery battalions. These numbered 33,200 men, 256 fighter aircraft, 950 anti-aircraft guns (including 261 light guns), and 52 radars. In June 1954, the region was reorganized into the Special Leningrad Air Defence Army, and the 25th Fighter Army abolished with its divisions brought under the direct control of the new army.[2]

When surface-to-air missiles were introduced in the air defence forces between 1958 and 1959, four Air Defence Brigades of Special Designation were formed in the army: the 82nd, 83rd, 84th, and 86th, equipped with S-75 Dvina missiles. These brigades were planned to be controlled by a coordinated missile defence system forming a ring around Leningrad, known as the System-100 Missile Zone. Additionally, the S-75s were to be bolstered by three regiments of long-range multi-target Dal missiles (see ru:Даль_(зенитный_ракетный_комплекс)), whose formation began in the fall of 1960. The closed military town of Khvoyny was built to house the headquarters of the system.[2]

6th Independent Air Defence Army

In March 1960,[3] the 6th Independent Air Defence Army (6-я отдельная армия ПВО) was formed from the Special Leningrad Air Defence Army. It controlled air defence units in Leningrad Oblast, Pskov Oblast, and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Between 1961 and 1962, the aviation division headquarters were disbanded and their regiments directly subordinated to the army headquarters.[4] The Dal missile program was cancelled in late 1962, and the SAM brigades instead equipped with the S-125 and S-200 missiles.[5] In the spring of 1967, the System-100 Zone was abolished and its units directly subordinate to the army headquarters or the 14th Air Defence Division. On 22 February 1968, the army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Army. In early 1978, the 14th Division was transferred to the Baltic Military District, and in the spring of 1980 the army was reorganized into the 18th Air Defence Corps with the transfer of its fighter units to the Air Forces of the Leningrad Military District.[2] The army was composed of regiments of interceptors and anti-aircraft missiles. It had two major tasks: to protect the most industrialized European part of the Soviet Union against possible U.S. cruise missile attack from the north via the North Pole (using Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptors), and to protect the deployment of nuclear submarines stationed in the Kola Peninsula (using Su-27 fighters).[6]

In early 1986, the PVO returned to the organization used during the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, in April 1986, the headquarters of the army was reestablished in Leningrad at 16 Baskov Pereulok from the headquarters of the 18th Corps.[7] The army included the 27th Air Defence Corps at Riga, the new 54th Air Defence Corps with headquarters at Khvoyny, the 14th Air Defence Division at Tallinn,[2] which included the 656th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO at Tapa Airfield in Estonia with MiG-27MLDs from 1978[8] and the 498th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Training Brigade at Opochka.[9]

In turn, the 27th Corps of the PVO consisted in 1988 of the:[10][11]

  • 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Vainode, Latvian SSR) (38 Sukhoi Su-27P / UB)
  • 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Nivenskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast) (36 Sukhoi Su-27P / UB)
  • 77th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
  • 85th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
  • 158th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Liepaya, Latvian SSR)
  • 169th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Neman, Kaliningrad Oblast)
  • 183rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Gvardeysk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
  • 205th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Riga, Latvian SSR)
  • 529th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Ukmerge, Lithuanian SSR)
  • 466th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
  • 80th Radio-Technical Brigade (Tukums, Latvian SSR)
  • 81st Radio-Technical Brigade (Pereslavskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast)
  • 5th Radio-Technical Regiment (Paplaka, Latvian SSR)

54th Air Defence Corps included:[2][12]

Russian Air Force

The Army was reformed within the Russian Air Force on June 1, 1998, from the 76th Air Army of the VVS and the 6th Independent Air Defence Army, both headquartered in Saint Petersburg. Its new title was the 6th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence. The 6th Army had responsibility for the Leningrad Military District.[1] General Lieutenant Gennadiy A. Torbov was appointed commander of the army by a presidential decree of 6 April 2000. He replaced Lt-Gen Anatoliy Basov, who retired due to age.[13] Its commanding officer was General Lieutenant Vladimir Sviridov from June 2005 until at least 2007.[6]

Economic stringency and the reduction of the threat led to drastic cuts in the formation,[6] as previously the 6th and 10th Independent Air Defence Armies, which covered the area, had twelve fighter regiments between them.[14] 10th Independent Air Defence Army appears to have disbanded on 1 December 1994.[15] The 518th Fighter Aviation Regiment at Talagi Airport disbanded in 1998. The 174th and 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiments, at Monchegorsk and Afrikanda air base, both disbanded on September 1, 2001.[16] There was also formerly the 72nd Fighter Regiment at Amderma and the 641st Fighter Aviation Regiment at Rogachevo (Sukhoi Su-27s).

On 13 September 2005, the army was awarded the honorific Leningrad in honor of the actions of its predecessor units in the Siege of Leningrad.[1]

From 2001 to 2009, the Kilpyavr airfield was home to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, created on the basis of 941st Fighter Aviation Regiment, which had received all the regalia of the 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. In 2009, 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was transferred from Karelia to the Besovets airbase, where it was merged with the 159th and 177th Fighter Regiment airfields Besovets and Lodeynoye Pole, respectively.[17]

In 2009 the army was disestablished and reorganised as the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command. Major General Alexander Duplinsky took command in February 2014; he was promoted to lieutenant general in February 2016.[18]

On 1 August 2015 the army was reformed from the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command as the 6th Leningrad Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[19]

By a Decree of the President of Russia dated September 13, 2005, for mass heroism and courage, fortitude and courage shown by the personnel of the army during the Great Patriotic War to protect the skies of Leningrad, and given its merits in peacetime, the army was given the honorary name "Leningrad".

Structure 2007

Structure 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command 2009-2015

The 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command was only active from 2009 to 2015.

Structure: 2019/2020

6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army HQ (St.Petersburg):[25]

Also seemingly part of the army are the 15th Brigade of Army Aviation at the former Russian Naval Aviation base at Ostrov, the 332nd Independent Guards Helicopter Regiment (332-й отдельный гвардейский вертолётный полк, V/Ch 12633 (Pushkin, St Petersburg, with 12 Mil Mi-28N, 10 Mil Mi-35M, and 12 Mil Мi-8MТV); and the 440th Independent Helicopter Regiment.

The 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment (at Shaykovka air base equipped with Tupolev Tu-22M3 "Backfire" bombers) is also based within the boundaries of the Western Military District but is subordinate to the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of Russian Long Range Aviation.[27]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c [6th Army VVS and PVO]. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2007-09-10. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, pp. 87–88.
  3. ^ Michael Holm, 18th ADC, accessed March 2012
  4. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 89.
  5. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 90.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Butowski, Piotr (August 2007). "Force Report: Russian Air Force, Part 2". AirForces Monthly. p. 62.
  7. ^ Holm, Michael. "6th independent Air Defence Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  8. ^ "656th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  9. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 92.
  10. ^ Michael Holm, 27th Air Defence Corps, accessed February 2012
  11. ^ Gusca, Vladislavs. (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  12. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, pp. 89–93.
  13. ^ Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 11 Apr 2000, cited by Federation of American Scientists, https://fas.org/irp/world/russia/fbis/AirForce.html#6thAir/AirDefenseArmy, accessed June 2010
  14. ^ http://www.aviation.ru/data/Regiments.html 1999-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 2009
  15. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/10oapvo.htm; previous report was August 1994: http://knn.dvvaiu.net/content/view/239/1/ 2010-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 2010
  16. ^ accessed April 2009
  17. ^ Pinchuk Alexander. At the airbase Besovets, newspaper "Red Star" via aviaport.ru, Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  18. ^ "Дуплинский Александр Васильевич : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации". structure.mil.ru. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  19. ^ "Шестая Ленинградская армия ВВС и ПВО сформирована на западе России". RIA Novosti (in Russian). 10 August 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  20. ^ See also http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/641gviap.htm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/941iap.htm
  21. ^ See also http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/72gviap.htm
  22. ^ These five units were inserted from the corresponding Ru-wiki article April 2009
  23. ^ [Aerospace Forces]. warfare.be (in Russian). 2016. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  24. ^ "159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  25. ^ "Russian Air Force - Today". Eastern Orbat.
  26. ^ "Russia strengthens its forces on the Baltic Sea". 30 January 2018.
  27. ^ a b c d GFSIS.
  • Air Forces Monthly, July & August 2007 issues.
  • GFSIS. "Russian Military Forces: Interactive Map".

Further reading

  • Lenskii, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2013). Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 1 [Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 1] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Info Ol. OCLC 861180616.

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The 6th Red Banner Leningrad Army of Air and Air Defence Forces Russian 6 ya Krasnoznamyonnaya Leningradskaya armiya Voenno vozdushnyh sil i protivovozdushnoj oborony 1 is an Air Army of the Russian Air Force 6th Red Banner Leningrad Army of VVS and PVO 1998 2009 2015 present 6th Independent Army of PVO 1960 1998 6 ya Krasnoznamyonnaya Leningradskaya armiya Voenno vozdushnyh sil i protivovozdushnoj oborony2010s insignia of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces ArmyActive1960 1980 1986 2009 2015 PresentCountry RussiaBranch Russian Air ForceRoleAir support and air defenceSizeAir armyHeadquartersSaint PetersburgNickname s Army of the Road of Life Motto s Securely guarding the North West sky of Russia Russian Nadezhno ohranyaem nebo Severo Zapada Rossii EquipmentInterceptors multiple integrated SAM systemsEngagementsSiege of LeningradDecorations Order of the Red BannerHonorificsLeningradCommandersCurrentcommanderMajor General Oleg MakovetskiyInsigniaInsignia of the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces CommandAircraft flownBomberSu 24 Su 34FighterSu 27 Su 35 Su 30 Su 27HelicopterMi 8 Mi 24InterceptorMiG 31ReconnaissanceSu 24MRTransportAn 12 An 26 Mi 8 Tu 134 The army was first active from 1998 to 2009 and was reformed in 2015 After the war the Soviet Air Defence Forces main command in the Leningrad area from 1960 was the 6th Independent Air Defence Army As of 2020 it is the principal frontal aviation formation within the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins 1 2 6th Independent Air Defence Army 1 3 Russian Air Force 2 Structure 2007 3 Structure 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command 2009 2015 4 Structure 2019 2020 5 See also 6 Notes 7 Further readingHistory EditOrigins Edit The army traces its lineage back to the formation of the 2nd Air Defence Corps before Operation Barbarossa the World War II German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 The corps provided direct cover for the city and the Air Forces of the Leningrad Military District had two fighter aviation divisions for air defense which became the 7th Fighter Aviation Corps in July In November the 2nd Corps was reorganized into the Leningrad Air Defence Corps Region but on 5 April 1942 it became the Leningrad Air Defence Army During the Siege of Leningrad between 1941 and 1944 the air defence formations protecting the city claimed more than 1 500 German aircraft destroyed and covered the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga In the fall of 1945 after the end of the war the army was reorganized into the 16th Special Air Defence Corps which was redesignated the 16th Air Defence Corps in May 1946 and the 16th Anti Aircraft Artillery Corps PVO in July 1947 In early 1949 the headquarters of the Leningrad Air Defence Region was formed from the corps headquarters In August its anti aircraft artillery divisions conducted an exercise in which they practiced repelling a large enemy air raid 2 The region was an air defence region of the 2nd category and in the spring of 1954 became 1st category tasked with providing air defense for Leningrad and the Leningrad Military District On 1 May 1953 it included four fighter aviation divisions part of the 25th Fighter Air Defence Army the 20th 41st 44th and the 50th three anti aircraft artillery divisions the 25th 29th and the 42nd a separate anti aircraft artillery regiment and seven separate anti aircraft artillery battalions These numbered 33 200 men 256 fighter aircraft 950 anti aircraft guns including 261 light guns and 52 radars In June 1954 the region was reorganized into the Special Leningrad Air Defence Army and the 25th Fighter Army abolished with its divisions brought under the direct control of the new army 2 When surface to air missiles were introduced in the air defence forces between 1958 and 1959 four Air Defence Brigades of Special Designation were formed in the army the 82nd 83rd 84th and 86th equipped with S 75 Dvina missiles These brigades were planned to be controlled by a coordinated missile defence system forming a ring around Leningrad known as the System 100 Missile Zone Additionally the S 75s were to be bolstered by three regiments of long range multi target Dal missiles see ru Dal zenitnyj raketnyj kompleks whose formation began in the fall of 1960 The closed military town of Khvoyny was built to house the headquarters of the system 2 6th Independent Air Defence Army Edit In March 1960 3 the 6th Independent Air Defence Army 6 ya otdelnaya armiya PVO was formed from the Special Leningrad Air Defence Army It controlled air defence units in Leningrad Oblast Pskov Oblast and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Between 1961 and 1962 the aviation division headquarters were disbanded and their regiments directly subordinated to the army headquarters 4 The Dal missile program was cancelled in late 1962 and the SAM brigades instead equipped with the S 125 and S 200 missiles 5 In the spring of 1967 the System 100 Zone was abolished and its units directly subordinate to the army headquarters or the 14th Air Defence Division On 22 February 1968 the army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Army In early 1978 the 14th Division was transferred to the Baltic Military District and in the spring of 1980 the army was reorganized into the 18th Air Defence Corps with the transfer of its fighter units to the Air Forces of the Leningrad Military District 2 The army was composed of regiments of interceptors and anti aircraft missiles It had two major tasks to protect the most industrialized European part of the Soviet Union against possible U S cruise missile attack from the north via the North Pole using Mikoyan MiG 31 interceptors and to protect the deployment of nuclear submarines stationed in the Kola Peninsula using Su 27 fighters 6 In early 1986 the PVO returned to the organization used during the 1960s and 1970s As a result in April 1986 the headquarters of the army was reestablished in Leningrad at 16 Baskov Pereulok from the headquarters of the 18th Corps 7 The army included the 27th Air Defence Corps at Riga the new 54th Air Defence Corps with headquarters at Khvoyny the 14th Air Defence Division at Tallinn 2 which included the 656th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO at Tapa Airfield in Estonia with MiG 27MLDs from 1978 8 and the 498th Anti Aircraft Rocket Training Brigade at Opochka 9 In turn the 27th Corps of the PVO consisted in 1988 of the 10 11 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO Vainode Latvian SSR 38 Sukhoi Su 27P UB 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO Nivenskoye Kaliningrad Oblast 36 Sukhoi Su 27P UB 77th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Ventspils Latvian SSR 85th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Kaunas Lithuanian SSR 158th Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Liepaya Latvian SSR 169th Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Neman Kaliningrad Oblast 183rd Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Gvardeysk Kaliningrad Oblast 205th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Riga Latvian SSR 529th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Ukmerge Lithuanian SSR 466th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Vilnius Lithuanian SSR 80th Radio Technical Brigade Tukums Latvian SSR 81st Radio Technical Brigade Pereslavskoye Kaliningrad Oblast 5th Radio Technical Regiment Paplaka Latvian SSR 54th Air Defence Corps included 2 12 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO Lodeynoye Pole Leningrad Oblast 38 Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 23MLD 180th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO at Gromovo Sakkola Leningrad Oblast 31 Mikoyan MiG 31 82nd Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Lomonosov Leningrad Oblast 83rd Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Zelenogorsk Leningrad Oblast 84th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Vaganovo Leningrad Oblast 86th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Tosno 2 Leningrad Oblast 204th Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Kerstovo Leningrad Oblast 169th Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Kornevo Leningrad Oblast 219th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Pervomayskoye 1 341st Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Lopukhinka 2 555th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Ostrov 2 967th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Tikhvin 46th Radio Technical Brigade Khvoyny Russian Air Force Edit The Army was reformed within the Russian Air Force on June 1 1998 from the 76th Air Army of the VVS and the 6th Independent Air Defence Army both headquartered in Saint Petersburg Its new title was the 6th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence The 6th Army had responsibility for the Leningrad Military District 1 General Lieutenant Gennadiy A Torbov was appointed commander of the army by a presidential decree of 6 April 2000 He replaced Lt Gen Anatoliy Basov who retired due to age 13 Its commanding officer was General Lieutenant Vladimir Sviridov from June 2005 until at least 2007 6 Economic stringency and the reduction of the threat led to drastic cuts in the formation 6 as previously the 6th and 10th Independent Air Defence Armies which covered the area had twelve fighter regiments between them 14 10th Independent Air Defence Army appears to have disbanded on 1 December 1994 15 The 518th Fighter Aviation Regiment at Talagi Airport disbanded in 1998 The 174th and 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiments at Monchegorsk and Afrikanda air base both disbanded on September 1 2001 16 There was also formerly the 72nd Fighter Regiment at Amderma and the 641st Fighter Aviation Regiment at Rogachevo Sukhoi Su 27s On 13 September 2005 the army was awarded the honorific Leningrad in honor of the actions of its predecessor units in the Siege of Leningrad 1 From 2001 to 2009 the Kilpyavr airfield was home to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment created on the basis of 941st Fighter Aviation Regiment which had received all the regalia of the 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment In 2009 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was transferred from Karelia to the Besovets airbase where it was merged with the 159th and 177th Fighter Regiment airfields Besovets and Lodeynoye Pole respectively 17 In 2009 the army was disestablished and reorganised as the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command Major General Alexander Duplinsky took command in February 2014 he was promoted to lieutenant general in February 2016 18 On 1 August 2015 the army was reformed from the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command as the 6th Leningrad Air and Air Defence Forces Army 19 By a Decree of the President of Russia dated September 13 2005 for mass heroism and courage fortitude and courage shown by the personnel of the army during the Great Patriotic War to protect the skies of Leningrad and given its merits in peacetime the army was given the honorary name Leningrad Structure 2007 EditHeadquarters 6th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence Saint Petersburg 21st Air Defence Corps Severomorsk 6 9th Guards Vilnius Fighter Aviation Regiment HQ at Kilp Yavr Poliarnyi Su 27 see ru Gvardejskij Vilenskij ordena Kutuzova III stepeni istrebitelnyj aviacionnyj polk 20 6 Formed 18 March 1943 as 63rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 458th Fighter Aviation Regiment HQ at Savatiya Kotlas MiG 25U MiG 31 21 6 531st Nevel Berlin Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment 22 1528th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Severodvinsk 23 583rd Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment Olenegorsk Murmansk Oblast 145th Radiotechnical Brigade Arkhangelsk 5th Radiotechnical Brigade Dalny Zelentsy Severomorsk 54th Air Defence Corps HQ at Taytsy 6 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment HQ at Lodeynoye Pole air base Su 27 6 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment HQ at Besovets Airport Su 27 24 6 196th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment th Anti Aircraft Rocket Regiment 149th Composite Aviation Division 67th Bomber Aviation Regiment HQ at Siverskiy 2 Su 24 6 722nd Bomber Aviation Regiment HQ at Smuravyevo Gdov Su 24 6 98th Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment HQ at Monchegorsk air base MiG 25RB U Su 24MR 6 87th Aviation Base HQ at Levashevo An 12 An 26 Mi 8 Tu 134 ex 138th Independent Composite Air Regiment 6 Army Aviation Component 147th Independent Helicopter Squadron of Electronic Warfare HQ at Pushkin Mi 8PPA 6 332nd Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle Control HQ at Pribylovo Mi 8 Mi 24 6 85th Independent Helicopter Squadron HQ at Alakurtti Mi 8 Mi 24 6 1080th Mixed Aviation Base smeshannaya aviacionnaya baza Gromovo Priozersky District Leningrad Oblast An 72 An 30 An 26 Mi 8 714th Base for Reserve Helicopters Kasimovo Mi 8 Mi 24 396th Centre for Special and Physical Preparations St PetersburgStructure 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command 2009 2015 Edit1st Air and Space Defence Brigade with S 300PM S 300PS Severomorsk 2nd Air and Space Defence Brigade with S 300PM Khvoyny 6961st Air Base Su 27 Su 27UB Besovets Besovec 6964th Guards Vistula Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Air Base with Su 24M Su 24MP Monchegorsk Monchegorsk 6965th Air Base with Mi 8 Mi 24 Vyazma Vyazma 7000th Guards Borisov Pomerania Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Air Base with SU 24M Su 24MP Su 34 VoronezhThe 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command was only active from 2009 to 2015 Structure 2019 2020 Edit6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army HQ St Petersburg 25 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division Voronezh 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Petrozavodsk Airport Karelia Two Squadrons Su 35S 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment Borisovsky Khotilovo air base Two Squadrons MiG 31 One Squadron Su 35 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Kursk Vostochny Airport Khalino Two Squadrons Su 30SM 47th Composite Aviation Regiment Voronezh Malshevo air base Two Squadrons Su 34 4th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron Shatalovo Su 24MR Naval Aviation drawn from 132nd Mixed Aviation Division Kaliningrad 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Kaliningrad Chkalovsk Two Squadrons Sukhoi Su 27P planned to re equip with the Su 35 26 4th Independent Naval Attack Aviation Regiment Chernyakhovsk air base One Squadron Su 30SM One Squadron Su 24M 2nd Air Defence Division St Petersburg region 27 1488th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Zelenogorsk S 400 SAM system 1489th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Vaganovo S 400 Pantsir SAM systems 1490th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Ulyanovka S 400 SAMs 500th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Gostilitsy S 400 Pantsir SAMs 1544th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Vladimirsky Lager S 400 SAMs 32nd Air Defence Division 27 42nd Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Izhitsy S 300PM2 surface to air missile system 108th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Voronezh S 300PM2 SAMs 44th Air Defence Division of the Baltic Fleet Kaliningrad region 27 183rd Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Gvardeysk S 400 S 300 Pantsir SAMs 1545th Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment Kruglovo S 400 SAMs Also seemingly part of the army are the 15th Brigade of Army Aviation at the former Russian Naval Aviation base at Ostrov the 332nd Independent Guards Helicopter Regiment 332 j otdelnyj gvardejskij vertolyotnyj polk V Ch 12633 Pushkin St Petersburg with 12 Mil Mi 28N 10 Mil Mi 35M and 12 Mil Mi 8MTV and the 440th Independent Helicopter Regiment The 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment at Shaykovka air base equipped with Tupolev Tu 22M3 Backfire bombers is also based within the boundaries of the Western Military District but is subordinate to the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of Russian Long Range Aviation 27 See also EditList of military airbases in RussiaNotes Edit a b c 6 armiya VVS i PVO 6th Army VVS and PVO Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Russian Archived from the original on 2007 09 10 Retrieved 25 November 2017 a b c d e f Lenskii amp Tsybin 2013 pp 87 88 Michael Holm 18th ADC accessed March 2012 Lenskii amp Tsybin 2013 p 89 Lenskii amp Tsybin 2013 p 90 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Butowski Piotr August 2007 Force Report Russian Air Force Part 2 AirForces Monthly p 62 Holm Michael 6th independent Air Defence Army www ww2 dk Retrieved 17 March 2017 656th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO Ww2 dk Retrieved 2022 09 17 Lenskii amp Tsybin 2013 p 92 Michael Holm 27th Air Defence Corps accessed February 2012 Gusca Vladislavs Obekty PVO SSSR v Pribaltike in Russian Archived from the original on 2017 12 01 Retrieved 2017 11 28 Lenskii amp Tsybin 2013 pp 89 93 Agentstvo voyennykh novostey 11 Apr 2000 cited by Federation of American Scientists https fas org irp world russia fbis AirForce html 6thAir AirDefenseArmy accessed June 2010 http www aviation ru data Regiments html Archived 1999 02 09 at the Wayback Machine accessed April 2009 http www ww2 dk new pvo 10oapvo htm previous report was August 1994 http knn dvvaiu net content view 239 1 Archived 2010 07 30 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2010 accessed April 2009 Pinchuk Alexander At the airbase Besovets newspaper Red Star via aviaport ru Retrieved March 8 2016 Duplinskij Aleksandr Vasilevich Ministerstvo oborony Rossijskoj Federacii structure mil ru Retrieved 2018 09 23 Shestaya Leningradskaya armiya VVS i PVO sformirovana na zapade Rossii RIA Novosti in Russian 10 August 2015 Retrieved 26 May 2022 See also http www ww2 dk new air 20force regiment iap 641gviap htm http www ww2 dk new air 20force regiment iap 941iap htm See also http www ww2 dk new air 20force regiment iap 72gviap htm These five units were inserted from the corresponding Ru wiki article April 2009 Vozdushno Kosmicheskie Sily Aerospace Forces warfare be in Russian 2016 Archived from the original on 13 May 2016 Retrieved 13 May 2016 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Ww2 dk Retrieved 2022 09 17 Russian Air Force Today Eastern Orbat Russia strengthens its forces on the Baltic Sea 30 January 2018 a b c d GFSIS Air Forces Monthly July amp August 2007 issues GFSIS Russian Military Forces Interactive Map Further reading EditLenskii A G Tsybin M M 2013 Sovetskie Vojska PVO v poslednie gody Soyuza SSR Chast 1 Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR Part 1 in Russian St Petersburg Info Ol OCLC 861180616 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army amp oldid 1133728709, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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