6th Kurilskaya Air Defence Division

6-я Курильская дивизия ПВО

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 15.3.57 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast, as the Kamchatskaya Air Defence Division, from the 222nd Fighter Aviation Division PVO.

3.60 renamed 6th Air Defence Division.

Organisation 1962:

• 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Elizovo, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 60th Radio-Technical Regiment (Koryaki, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 124th Radio-Technical Regiment (Ust-Kamchatsk, Kamchatka Oblast)

Organisation 1970:

• 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Elizovo, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 60th Radio-Technical Regiment (Koryaki, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 124th Radio-Technical Regiment (Ust-Kamchatsk, Kamchatka Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Elizovo, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 60th Radio-Technical Regiment (Koryaki, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 124th Radio-Technical Regiment (Ust-Kamchatsk, Kamchatka Oblast)

During 5.80 to 5.86 the 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO was attached to the VVS Far Eastern Military District.

Organisation 1988:

• 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Elizovo, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 60th Radio-Technical Regiment (Koryaki, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 124th Radio-Technical Regiment (Ust-Kamchatsk, Kamchatka Oblast)

1990 united with the 24th Air Defence Division as the 72nd Air Defence Corps.

Organisation 1990:

• 121st Communications Center (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo), Sakhalin Oblast)

• 41st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Burevestnik, Iturup Island)

• 528th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Smirnykh, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 777th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Sokol-Dolinsk, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Elizovo, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 328th independent Transport Aviation Squadron (Sokol-Dolinsk, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 140th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Poronaysk, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 752nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo), Sakhalin Oblast)

• 891st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Okha, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 38th Radio-Technical Regiment (Smirnykh, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 39th Radio-Technical Regiment (Dolinsk, Sakhalin Oblast)

• 60th Radio-Technical Regiment (Koryaki, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 124th Radio-Technical Regiment (Ust-Kamchatsk, Kamchatka Oblast)

• 125th Radio-Technical Regiment (Goryachiye Klyuchi, Iturup Island)

8.94 again renamed 6th Air Defence Division.

5.98 renamed VVS and PVO OKVS (VVS and PVO Northeast Russian Federation).

2009 renamed Aviation OKVS.

Headquarters:

• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatka Oblast, 1960 - today

Subordination:

• 11th independent Air Defence Army, 4.60 - 5.80

• VVS Far Eastern Military District, 5.80 - 5.86

• 11th independent Air Defence Army, 5.86 - 5.98

• 11th Air Army VVS and PVO, 5.98 - today