The 8th Separate Army of the

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25342) was a Soviet

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established in 1960. Army headquarters was in

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. The 8th air defense army was formed in March 1960 on the basis of the Kiev Air Defense Army on the basis of the Directive of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces No. omu/1/454690 of 24.03.1960. Previously the Kiev Air Defence Region had air defence responsibility for the area. In 1980 the Baku Air Defence District was disbanded, and the

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came under the command of the 8th Air Defence Army in April 1980. The 12th Air Defence Corps was shifted under the command of the

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in the Caucasus in 1986. In 1988 it comprised the 49th and 60th Air Defence Corps. The last commander of the army, General-Lieutenant Mikhail Lopatin (1989–1992), became the first commander of the

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, and retired as a colonel-general.

49th Air Defence Corps, 1988

HQ: Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, 3.86 - 6.92 Units of the 49th ADC 1988 (Source Holm) *138th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast) *276th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Svetlovodsk, Kirovograd Oblast) *392nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Uman, Cherkassy Oblast) *613th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Krivoi Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast) *508th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast) *317th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Lugansk, Lugansk Oblast) *138th Radio-Technical Brigade (Vasilkov, Kiev Oblast) *164th Radio-Technical Brigade (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast) *95th Communications Center (Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast) In June 1992 the corps was taken over by Ukraine.

60th Air Defence Corps

The 60th Air Defence Corps was formed on 15 June 1989 with its headquarters at

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. It was taken over by Ukraine on 1 June 1992. Fighter Regiments of the 60th Air Defence Corps Among other units that were part of the corps was the 160th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade. The army as a whole was on Ukrainian territory when the Soviet Union dissolved and became the basis for the

. From January 24, 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, 28th Air Defense Corps, previously subordinate to

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was transferred under the 8th Air Defence Army. Some units of the army station in the

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were passed onto the

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References

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