23rd Red Banner Air Army

23-я Воздушная Краснознамённая Армия

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Timofey Fedorovich Kutsevalov, 7.42 - 4.45
• Marshal of Aviation Sergey Aleksandrovich Zhudyakov, 4.45 - 12.45
• Lieutenant-General Yakov Stepanovich Shkurin, 5.46 - 10.47
• Lieutenant-General Sidor Vasilevich Slyusarev, 10.47 - 6.50
• Lieutenant-General Petr Petrovich Arkhangelskiy, 6.50 - 9.53
• Lieutenant-General Pavel Vladimirovich Nedosekin, 9.53 - 5.58
• Lieutenant-General Petr Mikhaylovich Kuchma, 5.58 - 2.64
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Fedorovich Khokhlachev, 2.64 - 5.71
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Ezhkov, 5.71 - 6.74
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Fedorovich Korochkin, 6.74 - 9.78
• Lieutenant-General Igor Mikhaylovich Dmitriev, 9.78 - 3.83
• Colonel-General Stanislav Georgievich Ivanov, 3.83 - 1.87
• Lieutenant-General Gennadiy Petrovich Bednov, 1.87 - 2.91
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Andreevich Vasiliev, 2.91 - 11.94
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Sergeevich Kutsokan, 21.94 - 9.96
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Mikhaylovich Gorbenko, 11.96 - 7.98

Activated 7.42 as the 12th Air Army.

Organisation 9.45:

• 6th Bomber Aviation Corps
• 7th Bomber Aviation Corps
• 30th Bomber Aviation Division
• 247th Bomber Aviation Division
• 54th Bomber Aviation Division
• 248th Assault Aviation Division
• 316th Assault Aviation Division
• 190th Fighter Aviation Division
• 245th Fighter Aviation Division
• 246th Fighter Aviation Division
• 21st Guards Transport Aviation Division
• 541st Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 12th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
• 117th independent Artillery Correction Regiment

10.1.49 renamed 45th Air Army.

7.57 renamed VVS Transbaikal Military District.

Organisation 1962:

• 193rd independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Ukurey (Nikolayevskoye), Chita Oblast)

• 000 independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Chita, Chita Oblast)

8.67 renamed 23rd Air Army.

In 1968 the 29th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division was activated.

In 1969 the 30th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division was activated.

Organisation 1970:

• 29th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Choybalsan, Mongolia)
• 30th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Step, Chita Oblast)
• 120th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Domna, Chita Oblast)
• 193rd independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Ukurey (Nikolayevskoye), Chita Oblast)
• 2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Dzhida, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 21st Bomber Aviation Regiment (Dzhida, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment (Domna, Chita Oblast)
• 000 independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Chita, Chita Oblast)
• 170th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Chita, Chita Oblast)

In 1972 the 246th Fighter Aviation Division was activated.

Red Banner awarded 1974.

In 6.75 the 101st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment was activated.

In 1979 the 21st Bomber Aviation Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 21st Bomber Aviation Division (Dzhida, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 29th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Choybalsan, Mongolia)
• 30th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Step, Chita Oblast)
• 246th Fighter Aviation Division (Choyr, Mongolia)
• 120th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Domna, Chita Oblast)
• 101st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Borzya-2, Chita Oblast)
• 193rd independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Ukurey (Nikolayevskoye), Chita Oblast)
• 36th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment (Chita, Chita Oblast)
• 170th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Chita, Chita Oblast)

6.80 renamed VVS Transbaikal Military District.

In 1981 the 29th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division and the 246th Fighter Aviation Division was transferred to the 44th Mixed Aviation Corps.

5.88 renamed 23rd Air Army.

The 193rd independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment was disbanded 1989.

The 30th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division was disbanded in 1990.

25.8.88 the 150th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment joined the army.

Organisation 1990:

• 21st Bomber Aviation Division (Dzhida, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 189th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Borzya-2, Chita Oblast)
• 266th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Step, Chita Oblast)
• 120th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Domna, Chita Oblast)
• 101st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Borzya-2, Chita Oblast)
• 125th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Domna, Chita Oblast)
• 36th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment (Chita, Chita Oblast)
• 150th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment (Ulan-Ude, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 170th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Chita, Chita Oblast)

Disbanded 7.98.

Bases:

• Chita, Chita Oblast, 1945 - 1998

Subordination:

• Transbaykal Military District, 1945 - 1998