50th Air Army DA

50-я Воздушная Армия ДА

Military Unit: 49707; from 4.46: 55135

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gromov, 5.5.42 - 26.5.43
• Colonel-General Nikolay Filippovich Papivin, 26.5.43 - 25.5.46
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Makarovich Nikolaenko, 25.5.46 - 8.49
• Lieutenant-General Georgiy Semenovich Schetchikov, 8.49 - 7.52
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Makarovich Nikolaenko, 7.52 - 1.56
• Major-General Fedor Ivanovich Dobysh, 1.56 - 1.7.60

Activated 5.42 from the VVS Kalinin Front, as the 3rd Air Army.

Organisation 5.45:

• 11th Fighter Aviation Corps
  • 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Division
  • 190th Fighter Aviation Division
• 259th Fighter Aviation Division
• 211th Assault Aviation Division
• 335th Assault Aviation Division
• 3rd Guards Bomber Aviation Division
• 314th Night-Bomber Aviation Division
• 6th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 11th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
• 206th independent Artillery Correction Regiment
• 763rd Transport Aviation Regiment

Most units were transferred to the 15th Air Army during the 1945/46 period.

9.4.46 renamed 1st Air Army DA, and transferred to Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast.

Organisation 1946:

• 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Corps (Mogilev, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 11th Guards Bomber Aviation Division (Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast)
  • 57th Bomber Aviation Division (Novozybkhov (Klimovo), Bryansk Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Bomber Aviation Corps (Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 22nd Guards Bomber Aviation Division (Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 45th Bomber Aviation Division (Balbasovo, Vitebsk Oblast)

10.1.49 renamed 50th Air Army DA.

Organisation 1950:

• 51st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Mogilev, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 11th Guards Bomber Aviation Division (Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast)
  • 57th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Novozybkhov (Klimovo), Bryansk Oblast)
• 79th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast)
  • 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Balbasovo, Vitebsk Oblast)

The 144th Fighter Aviation Division was part of the army 1952 to 1957.

The 51st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps and the 79th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps was disbanded 8.56.

Organisation 1958:

• 11th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast)
• 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast)
• 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Baranovichi, Brest Oblast)
• 57th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Bykhov, Mogilev Oblast)
• 160th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Balbasovo, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 121st independent Guards Long-Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Machulishchi, Minsk Oblast)
• 290th independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Zyabrovka, Gomel Oblast)

1.7.60 renamed 50th Missile Army.

Bases:

• Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, 1945 - 4.46
• Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, 4.46 - 7.60 [54 47 05N, 32 03 36E]

Subordination:

• Kaliningrad Special District, 1945 - 4.46
• Long-Range Aviation (DA), 4.46 - 7.60