4th independent Red Banner Air Defence Army

4-я отдельная Краснознамённая армия ПВО

Military Unit: 10866

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Vasilevich Korshunov, 1960 - 1963
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Kalinnikovich Grishkov, 1963 - 1967
• Colonel-General Ivan Mikhaylovich Gurinov, 1967 - 1973
• Lieutenant-General Leonid Mikhaylovich Goncharov, 1973 - 1977
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Ivanovich Khyupenen, 1977 - 1981
• Major-General Yury Dmitrievich Sudakov, 1981 - 1982
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Georgievich Tsarkov, 1982 - 1987
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Borisovich Gorshkolepov, 1987 - 1990
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Petrovich Timofeev, 1990 - 1995
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Ivanovich Makarchuk, 1995 - 1997
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Leonidovich Yurev, 1997 - 6.07
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mikhaylovich Kucheryavyy, 6.07 - 2009

Activated 10.4.60 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, from the Uralskaya Air Defence Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 19th Air Defence Corps (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 20th Air Defence Corps (Perm, Perm Oblast)

The 28th Air Defence Division joined the corps in 1963.

Organisation 1970:

• 142nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Koltsovo, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 845th Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Regiment (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast - military unit: 03430)
• 19th Air Defence Corps (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 20th Air Defence Corps (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 28th Air Defence Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast)

Red Banner awarded 15.1.74.

Organisation 1980:

• 142nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Koltsovo, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 845th Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Regiment (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 19th Air Defence Corps (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 20th Air Defence Corps (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 28th Air Defence Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 142nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Koltsovo, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 845th Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Regiment (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 19th Air Defence Corps (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 20th Air Defence Corps (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 28th Air Defence Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast)

Organisation 1990:

• 390th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment (Koltsovo, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 845th Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Regiment (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 28th Air Defence Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast)
• 90th Air Defence Division (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 91st Air Defence Division (Perm, Perm Oblast)

12.94 renamed 5th Air Defence Corps.

5.98 renamed 5th Corps VVS and PVO.

1.6.2001 renamed 5th Army VVS and PVO.

2009 renamed 8th Aerospace Defence Brigade.

HQ:

• Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, 1960 - today [56 50 44N, 60 39 09E]

Subordination:

• GK PVO, 1960 - 1998
• GK VVS and PVO, 1998 - today