15th Air Army

15-я Воздушная Армия

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Major-General Ivan Gavrilovich Pyatukhin, 7.42 - 5.43
• Colonel-General Nikolay Fedorovich Naumenko, 5.43 - 5.50
• Colonel-General Fedor Petrovich Polynin, 5.50 - 10.53
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Ivanovich Mironov, 10.53 - 1.57
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Aleksandrovich Vinogradov, 1.57 - 4.58
• Colonel-General Fedor Ivanovich Shinkarenko, 4.58 - 5.73
• Colonel-General Sergey Vasilevich Golubev, 5.73 - 3.79
• Lieutenant-General Petr Nikolaevich Masalitin, 3.79 - 10.85
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Vasilevich Bobrov, 10.85 - 2.88
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Pavlovich Timchenko, 2.88 - 7.91
• Major-General Mikhail Ivanovich Lipatov, 7.91 - 12.93

Activated 7.42.

Organisation 5.45:

• 5th Guards Bomber Aviation Corps
• 14th Fighter Aviation Corps
• 284th Night Bomber Aviation Division
• 313th Night Bomber Aviation Division
• 214th Assault Aviation Division
• 225th Assault Aviation Division
• 305th Assault Aviation Division
• 336th Fighter Aviation Division
• 99th independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
• 187th independent Artillery Correction Regiment
• 699th Transport Aviation Regiment
• 97th Aviation Regiment GVF
• 87th Night Bomber Aviation Squadron

10.1.49 renamed 30th Air Army.

Organisation 1962:

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR)
• 43rd Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Tukums, Latvian SSR)
• 886th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Jekabpils, Latvian SSR)
• 249th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Riga-Spilve, Latvian SSR)
• 79th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Riga, Latvian SSR)

4.4.68 renamed 15th Air Army.

5.6.68 the 43rd Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment was transferred to Mongolia.

The 132nd Bomber Aviation Division arrived from Germany 7.68.

Organisation 1970:

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR)
• 132nd Bomber Aviation Division (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 886th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Jekabpils, Latvian SSR)
• 88th independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Suurkyul-Emari, Estonian SSR)
• 249th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Riga-Spilve, Latvian SSR)
• 79th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Riga, Latvian SSR)

12.77 renamed VVS Baltic Military District.

Organisation 1980:

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR)
• 132nd Bomber Aviation Division (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 886th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Jekabpils, Latvian SSR)
• 88th independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Suurkyul-Emari, Estonian SSR)
• 321st independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Suurkyul-Emari, Estonian SSR)
• 372nd independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Daugavpils-Lotsiki, Latvian SSR)
• 249th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Riga-Spilve, Latvian SSR)
• 285th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare (Jelgava, Latvian SSR)
• 79th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Riga, Latvian SSR)

The 39th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division was activated in 1981.

In 1982 the 132nd Bomber Aviation Division was transferred to the 4th Air Army VGK.

The 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division was disbanded in 1986.

5.88 renamed 15th Air Army.

The 236th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment arrived from Czechoslovakia 7.89.

Organisation 1990:

• 39th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Lielvarde, Latvian SSR)
• 886th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Jekabpils, Latvian SSR)
• 236th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lielvarde, Latvian SSR)
• 249th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Riga-Spilve, Latvian SSR)
• 285th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare (Jelgava, Latvian SSR)
• 79th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Riga, Latvian SSR)

Disbanded 12.93.

Bases:

• Riga, Latvian SSR, 1945 - 1993 [56 57 27N, 24 07 22E]

Subordination:

• Baltic Military District, 1945 - 1993