171st Guards Smolensko-Berlinskiy Red Banner Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment

171-й гвардейский тяжелый бомбардировочный Смоленско-Берлинский Краснознаменный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 06862

Activated 1938 in Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, as the 42nd Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment.

21.3.42 renamed 42nd Aviation Regiment Long-Range.

19.8.44 renamed 28th Guards Aviation Regiment Long-Range.

26.12.44 renamed 28th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

21.12.45 renamed 171st Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

1950 renamed 171st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment.

8.12.58 renamed 214th Aviation (Missile) Regiment.

Bases:

• Biala Podlaska, Poland, 1945 - 5.46 [52 00 16N, 23 08 30N]

• Novozybkhov (Klimovo), Bryansk Oblast, 5.46 - 1.51 [52 20 30N, 32 10 12E]

• Bykhov, Mogilev Oblast, 1.51 - 10.52 [53 31 05N, 30 11 53E]

• Baranovichi, Brest Oblast, 10.52 - 12.58 [53 05 51N, 26 02 50E] - possibly via Zyabrovka for a few months

Aircraft:

• TB-3, 1938-1942

• Il-4, 1943-1950

• Tu-4, 1950-1956

• Tu-16, 1956-12.58

Subordinated:

• 27th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Brigade, 1938 - 1941

• 133rd Aviation Division, 8.41 - 3.42

• 36th Air Division Long Range, 3.42 - 12.44

• 36th Bomber Aviation Division, 12.44 - 4.46

• 57th Bomber Aviation Division, 4.46 - 2.50

• 57th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 2.50 - 10.52

• 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 10.52 - 12.58