10th Independent Air Defence Army

The 10th Independent Red Banner Air Defence Army (Military Unit Number 41137) was an army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, active from 1960 to 1994. The headquarters was at Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast.

The army originates from the White Sea Air Defense Corps (Northern Military District) (commander of the Corps twice Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Pyotr Pokryshev):

  • White Sea Air Defense Corps (since 1954);[1]
  • Northern Air Defense Army (since 17.06.1958);[2]
  • 10th Independent Air Defense Army (from 24.03.1960);[3]
  • 10th Independent Red Banner Air Defense Army (from 30.04.1975);[4]

Northern Air Defense Army

To cover the European North in 1958 on the basis of the White Sea Air Defense Corps, the Northern Air Defense Army was formed in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces of June 17, 1958. The new army included:

  • Northern Air Defense Corps (Severomorsk), which included:
    • 91st Fighter Aviation Division;
    • 216th Fighter Aviation Division (Vaskovo);
    • antiaircraft artillery regiments;
    • Radio engineering units;
  • Polar Air Defense Division (Belushya Guba Village);
  • Units of direct subordination of the army;
  • 34th communication center.

In 1959 a Guards air defense artillery regiment was incorporated into the Northern Air Defence Corps; subsequently, the anti-aircraft missile brigade (Peninsula)]). In 1960, an air defense missile regiment (transformed into a brigade) was relocated from the Odessa Air Defense Corps to the Arkhangelsk Region with a control point in Mirny. To strengthen fighter aviation, the 524th Fighter Aviation Regiment was transferred from the Air Force of the Northern Fleet, reequipped with the Yak-25, and relocated to Letneozersky Plesetsk District.

On March 24, 1960, the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces decided to transform the Northern Army into the 10th Independent Air Defense Army. Subordinate formations were also assigned combined-arms numbers:

  • Northern Corps of Air Defense - 21st Air Defence Corps;
  • Polar Air Defense Division - 4th Air Defence Division.

Forces in the 1980s
  • 21st Air Defence Corps[5]
  • 4th Air Defence Division
  • 5th Air Defence Division
  • 23rd Air Defence Division

Fighter Regiments of the 10th Army PVO 1988

Regiment Base Equipment Remarks
57th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Besovets Sukhoi Su-15TM 5th Air Defence Division, moved to Norilsk-Alykel 1990; disbanded 10.93.[6] Absorbed 991st IAP 1978.[7]
72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Amderma Airport Mikoyan MiG-31 4th Air Defence Division, honorifics Polotsk Order of Suvorov[8]
174th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Monchegorsk (air base) Mikoyan MiG-31 21st Air Defence Corps, 2 Gds Naval IAP in 1945[9]
265th Fighter Aviation Regiment Poduzhemye, Karelian ASSR Sukhoi Su-15TM 5th Air Defence Division.[7] Disbanded 1994.
431st Fighter Aviation Regiment Afrikanda Sukhoi Su-15TM 21st Air Defence Corps[10]
445th Fighter Aviation Regiment Savatiya (air base) (Kotlas) Mikoyan MiG-25P 23rd Air Defence Division[11]
518th Fighter Aviation Regiment Talagi Mikoyan MiG-31 23rd Air Defence Division[11][12]
524th Fighter Aviation Regiment Letneozersk Mikoyan MiG-25P 23rd Air Defence Division.[11] Disbanded 1994[13]
641st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Rogachevo Sukhoi Su-27 4th Air Defence Division[14]
941st Fighter Aviation Regiment Kilpyavr Sukhoi Su-27 21st Air Defence Corps[10]

The army was disbanded on 1 December 1994.[15]

References

Citations
  1. Order of the People's Commissar of Defense from 1954
  2. The General Staff of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces of June 17, 1958
  3. The General Staff Directive of the Air Defense Forces of June 17, 1958
  4. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of April 30, 1975
  5. "21st Air Defence Corps". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  6. "57th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  7. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 86.
  8. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 79.
  9. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 81.
  10. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 82.
  11. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 84.
  12. "518th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  13. "524th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  14. Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, p. 80.
  15. Michael Holm 10th independent Air Defence Army

Bibliography
  • Lenskii, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2013). Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 1 [Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 1] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Info Ol. OCLC 861180616.

Further reading
  • V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Tomsk, 2013. Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected.
  • «На страже северного неба» (Москва, 2005) председатель совета ветеранов 10-й армии ПВО генерал-майор А. С. Иванов
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