49th Air Army

49-я Воздушная Армия

Military Unit: 61800

Commanders:

• Major-General Aleksey Anastasovich Mikoyan, 6.69 - 1978
• ?
• Major-General Nikolay Timofeevich Antoshkin, 8.88 - 1.6.89

Activated 24.6.69 in Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast, as VVS Turkestan Military District.

Organisation 1970:

• 115th independent Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 217th independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kzyl-Arvat, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 87th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Karshi-Khanabad, Kashkadar'inskaya Oblast)
• 47th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Ak-Tepe, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 10th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 115th independent Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 136th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 217th independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kzyl-Arvat, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 87th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Karshi-Khanabad, Kashkadar'inskaya Oblast)
• 47th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Ak-Tepe, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 10th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)

In 4.80 the 156th Fighter Aviation Regiment joined the army.

The 34th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division was activated 12.84.

In 5.88 renamed 49th Air Army.

Organisation 1989:

• 34th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Chirchik, Tashkent Oblast)
• 115th independent Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 156th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Mary-2, Mary Oblast)
• 735th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Karshi-Khanabad, Kashkadar'inskaya Oblast)
• 87th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Karshi-Khanabad, Kashkadar'inskaya Oblast)
• 47th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Ak-Tepe, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 10th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)

In 5.89 the 372nd independent Assault Aviation Squadron was activated.

1.6.89 renamed 56th Mixed Aviation Corps.

1.1.92 taken over by Uzbekistan.

Bases:

• Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast, 24.6.69 - 1.92 [41 18 09N, 69 18 53E]

Subordination:

• Turkestan Military District, 24.6.69 - 1.92