The 16th Red Banner Air Army (russian: 16-я воздушная Краснознамённая армия) was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command. Initially formed during the

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as a part of the

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, it was from its 2002 reformation to its 2009 disbandment the tactical air force component of the

Moscow Military District The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military D ...

. The 16th Air Army took part in the Battle of Berlin with 28 Aviation divisions and 7 Separate aviation regiments, and was located with the

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until 1994. Withdrawn to

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in that year, the army was disbanded and reformed as a corps in 1998. From 1949 to 1968, it was designated as the 24th Air Army.

World War II

The army began forming on 8 August 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad and originally included the 220th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) and 228th Assault Aviation Division (ShAD) of the

8th Air Army The 8th Air Army was a military formation of the Soviet Air Forces, active from around 1942 to 1949. It was formed June 13, 1942, order of the NKO number 00119 on June 9, 1942, on the basis of the Air Forces of the Southwestern Front. Since it ...

, as well as two separate aviation regiments. Around the end of August and the beginning of September, the 283rd IAD and 291st Mixed Aviation Division (SAD) arrived from the

Reserve of the Supreme High Command The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the ''Stavka'' Reserve or RVGK ( ru , РВГК)) comprises reserve military formations and units; the Stav ...

. On 4 September, the army had 152 serviceable aircraft, composed of

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and

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fighters,

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Shturmovik ground attack aircraft, and

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dive bombers. It took part in

Operation Uranus Operation Uranus (russian: Опера́ция «Ура́н», Operatsiya "Uran") was the codename of the Soviet Red Army's 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of Axis ...

, the counteroffensive that successfully cut off German troops in Stalingrad, as part of the

Don Front The Don Front was a front of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War, which existed between September 1942 and February 1943, and was commanded during its entire existence by Konstantin Rokossovsky. The name refers to Don River, Russia. Fo ...

during November and December 1942, under the command of Major General Sergei Rudenko. On 19 November, when the offensive began, the army had a total of 249 serviceable aircraft. It was involved in the

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, and was part of the

First Belorussian Front The 1st Belorussian Front ( Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, ''Perviy Belorusskiy front'', also romanized " Byelorussian") was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army ...

for the liberation of Belarus, the Lublin-Brest Offensive, and the assault on Berlin.

In Germany

On 29 May 1945, Stavka directive No. 11095 was issued (effective from 10.6.45), by which order the

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became the

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. The order also promulgated the new structure of 16th Air Army: *

3rd Bomber Aviation Corps Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * Hig ...

(

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) ** 183rd Bomber Aviation Division (Oranienburg,

) ** 241st Bomber Aviation Division (Werneuchen,

) ** 301st Bomber Aviation Division (Finow,

) *

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( Szprotava,

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) ** 113th Bomber Aviation Division (Poznan-Kreising,

) ** 326th Bomber Aviation Division (Sagan,

) ** 334th Bomber Aviation Division (Poznan-Lawica,

) * 6th Assault Aviation Corps (Finsterwalde,

) ** 197th Assault Aviation Division (Strausberg, East Germany) **

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(East Germany) ** 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Division (Wittstock/Rechlin, East Germany) * 9th Assault Aviation Corps (Finsterwalde, East Germany) **

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(Finsterwalde, East Germany) ** 300th Assault Aviation Division (Cottbus, East Germany) ** 11th Guards Assault Aviation Division (Jüterbog-Altes Lager, East Germany) *

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(Perleberg, East Germany) **

3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Division Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * Hig ...

(Ludwigslust, East Germany) **

4th Guards Fighter Aviation Division Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

(Perleberg, East Germany) **

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(Tutow, East Germany) * 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps (Lager Döberitz-Falkensee, East Germany) ** 265th Fighter Aviation Division (Brandenburg, East Germany) ** 278th Fighter Aviation Division (Elstal, East Germany) ** 286th Fighter Aviation Division (Dallgow, East Germany) * 13th Fighter Aviation Corps (Halle/Leipzig area, Germany) ** 193rd Fighter Aviation Division (Altenburg, East Germany) ** 283rd Fighter Aviation Division (Köthen or Halle, East Germany) ** 282nd Fighter Aviation Division (Grossenhain, East Germany) * 9th Guards Night-Bomber Aviation Division (Straussberg, East Germany) * 16th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Schönwalde, East Germany) * 93rd independent Artillery Correction Regiment (Fürstenwalde, East Germany) * 98th independent Artillery Correction Regiment (Zerbst, East Germany) * 226th Separate mixed wing ( Sperenberg Airfield,

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) * 62nd Guards Aviation Regiment GVF (Berlin-Adlershof, East Germany) * 919th independent Communications Aviation Squadron (East Germany) For a long period after the war, the army was stationed with the

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, headquartered at

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. In 1949, it was renamed the 24th Air Army, but was reformed as the 16th in 1968.

Withdrawal from Germany

The 16th Air Army ceremonially said farewell to Germany at the Sperenburg Open Day on 27 May 1994. On that day the Air Army Headquarters was moved to

in the

. However the last aircraft from the 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment did not leave Sperenberg Airfield until 6 September 1994. A visiting Il-76MD was the last aircraft movement three days later. In 1989 it consisted of subordinate units and formations as follows: ;Headquarters, Zossen-Wünsdorf *

6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division The 6th Guards Don-Szeged Red Banner Order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Division was a fighter aviation division of the Soviet Air Force during World War II and the Cold War. The division was formed in early 1943 from the 268th Fighter Aviation Div ...

(

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a dioces ...

) ** 296th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (

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) ** 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (

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) ** 85th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Merseburg) ** 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kobiz) ** 139th Aviation Technical Regiment (Merseburg) * 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (

Damgarten Ribnitz-Damgarten () is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, situated on Lake Ribnitz (''Ribnitzer See''). Ribnitz-Damgarten is in the west of the district Vorpommern-Rügen. The border between the historical regions of Mecklenburg and P ...

) ** 33rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (

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) ** 773rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (Damgarten) ** 787th Fighter Aviation Regiment (

) * 126th Fighter Aviation Division (

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) ** 35th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Zerbst) ** 833rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ( Altes Lager (Menzlin)) * 125th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (

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) ** 19th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lerz) ** 20th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Groß Dölln) *

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(Großenhain) ** 296th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Großenhain) ** 559th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Finsterwalde) ** 911th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Brand) * Separate units, directly subordinated to the 16th Air Army **

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( Welzow, later withdrawn to North Caucasus and joined

4th Air Army Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

) ** 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment (Sperenberg, later relocated to

, see below) ** 357th Separate Assault Aviation Regiment ( Brandis, Germany) ** 368th Separate Assault Aviation Regiment (

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, later withdrawn to North Caucasus and joined

) ; See also:

Airfields on German territory

The list below contains the main airfields of the 16th Air Army. The appropriate airfield

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with the correlating nickname of the communications center is put in "quotation marks": })» , , «tonus (тонус)» , align="center", tbd , - , Altenburg airfield , , «proran (проран)» , , «stolbik (столбик)» , , - , Altes Lager airfield , , «lektsya (лекция)» , , «kniga (книга)» , , - , Brand airfield , , «zveroboy (зверобой)» , , «prosyolok (просёлок)» , , - , Brandis airfield , , «zapayka (запайка)» , , «optika (oптика)» , , - , Damgarten airfield , , «sobol (cоболь)» , , «urozhay (урожай)» , , - ,

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, , «aryol (aрёол)» , , «mebel, lira (мебель, лира)» , align="center", tbd , - , Falkenberg airfield , «baikal (байкал)» , , «samokatsik (самокатчик)» , , - , Finow airfield , «narzan (нарзан)» , , «napayka, meshalka (напайка мешалка)» , , - , Finsterwalde airfield , «gorodok (городок)» , , «probar (проба)» , , - , Grossenhain airfield , «ararat (aрарат)» , , «tsekan bagatzrskiy (чекан, богатырский)» , , - , Köthen airfield , «zemelnyi (земельный)» , , «zenitnyi (зенитный)» , , - ,

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, «osenniy (осенний)» , , «mukha, uksus (муха, уксус)» , , - ,

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(Cochstedt) , «садовый» , , «аэроплан» , , - , Merseburg airfield , «muskat (мускат)» , , «tsaevod, radost (чаевод, радость)» , , - ,

Neuruppin Neuruppin (; North Brandenburgisch: ''Reppin'') is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) and therefore also referred to as ''Font ...

, «khuydor (хуторок)» , , «powodok, plavshchik (поводок, плавщик)» , , - ,

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, «voevoda (воевода)» , , «nagrad (нагар)» , , - ,

Oranienburg airfield Oranienburg () is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Oberhavel. Geography Oranienburg is a town located on the banks of the Havel river, 35 km north of the centre of Berlin. Division of the town Oranienbur ...

, «zadar (задар)» , , «rtunyi (ртутный)» , , - , Parchim airfield , «pushistyi (пушистый)» , , «klits (клич)» , , - , Rechlin–Lärz Airfield , «gusar (гусар)» , «metallist (металлист)» , , - , Stendal-Borstel airfield , «kukan (кукан)» , «kumysny (кумысный)» , , - , Sperenberg airfield , , «souvenir (сувенир)» , , «izvoztsik (извозчик)» , , - , Templin airfield (Groß Dölln) , «leopard (леопард)» , , «nozh, povelitel (нож, повелитель)» , , - , Tutow airfield (Demmin) , «baas (баас)» , , «serdolik (сердолик)» , , - , Welzow airfield , «baas (баас)» , «serdolik (сердолик)» , , - ,

Werneuchen airfield Werneuchen () is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, in the district of Barnim northeast of Berlin within the metropolitan area. Most of the population of Werneuchen commutes to Berlin. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Werneuchen.pdf, Deve ...

, «galerny (лагерный)» , , «postament (постамент)» , , - , Wittstock aifield , «gazovy (газовый)» , «postament (подкос, водонос)» , , - ,

, «karetny (каретный)» , , «kinzhal, tsaynik (кинжал, чайник)» ,

In the Russian Federation

On 1 June 1998, the 16th Air Army was disbanded and its units incorporated into the Moscow District of VVS and PVO, in accordance with the amalgamation of the Air Forces and the

Russian Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

(former

Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

).Pyotr Butowski, Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation, Part 2, International Air Power Review, AIRTime Publishing, No.13, Summer 2004, , p.87 This was quickly reversed and on 25 November 1998, the 16th Mixed Aviation Corps was formed from the former units of the army. The corps was reformed as the 16th Air Army on 1 February 2002. Savasleyka is another airbase within the

's boundaries, but its exact operational status is currently unclear, as the formerly resident unit, the 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, was not listed as operational in the most widely available recent survey of Russian air power, which was done by ''

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'' in August and September 2007. The 54th Regiment had previously been withdrawn from Vainode Air Base in Latvia. Russian internet sources now say it has been reorganised as the 3958th Air Base. The 16th Air Army was planned in 2007 to receive two regiments of the advanced Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers. As part of the extensive reorganization of the Russian Air Force in 2009, the army was withdrawn from the Special Purpose Command on 1 July, and its disbandment was completed by 1 December. Most of its units were transferred to the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command.

2007 structure

16th Air Army –

* 237th Guards Air Technology Demonstration Centre –

( MiG-29, Su-27, Su-27M, L-39C) * 226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment – Kubinka * 83rd Separate Communications Regiment – Kubinka * 105th Mixed Aviation Division,

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** 455th Bomber Aviation Regiment –

Voronezh Malshevo Voronezh Malshevo is an air base in Voronezh Oblast of the Russian Air Force as part of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Western Military District. and Baltimore. The base is home to the 47th Composite Guards Aviation Regiment which oper ...

/Baltimor,

(

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, being replaced by

Su-34 The Sukhoi Su-34 (russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/ strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Sovi ...

) **

899th Assault Aviation Regiment The 899th "Orsha Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky" Assault Aviation Regiment was a regiment of the Russian Air Force, active from 1949 - 2009. In its last years it was a attack aircraft unit located at Buturlinovk ...

–

Buturlinovka Buturlinovka (russian: Бутурли́новка) is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on the Ossered River, a tributary of the Don. It serves as the administrative center of Buturlinovsky District. Its population as of 2021 was 24,397. Histo ...

( Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft, being also replaced with Su-34) * 47th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment –

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(MiG-25 and Su-24MR in service) * 14th Guards Leningrad Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment –

Kursk Vostochny Airport Kursk Vostochny Airport (russian: Аэропорт Курск-Восточный) , also known as Khalino, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located 7 km east of Kursk. It is a medium-sized base 4 miles n ...

(MiG-29) Arrived

Zherdevka (air base) Zherdevka (also Zerdevka) is a disused interceptor aircraft air base in Russia located east of Zherdevka, Tambov Oblast. It was home to the 14th Guards Leningrad Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment (14th Guards IAP) which ...

in 1991, moved to Khalino-Kursk in 1998 or 1999. * 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment – Andreapol (air base) (MiG-29) * 45th Separate Helicopter Regiment – Kaluga ( attack helicopter, Mi-9 (airborne command post and relay)) * 440th Separate Helicopter Regiment –

Vyazma Vyazma (russian: Вя́зьма) is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast, and Mozhaysk. Thr ...

(attack helicopter, Mil Mi-9) * 490th Separate Helicopter Regiment – Tula (attack helicopter, Mil Mi-9)

Commanding generals

Commanding generals of the 16th Air Army were as follows:

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

* Woezik, Rene van, and Lok, Joris Janssen, "Working up to leaving: despite withdrawal, the Soviet Air Force in Germany is being modernised",

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, Vol. 16, No. 10, Sept 7, 1991 p415(2) () Jane's Information Group.
Soviet ORBAT from last years in Germany
* https://archive.today/20080110072449/http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/russia/air/va/16va_mvo.htm * http://oko-planet.su/politik/politikarm/13853-v-rossijskoj-armii-sozdano-komandovanie-vozdushno.html – new Operational-Strategic Command for Air and Space Defence reported. The command will be established by the end of 2010 and located at Balashikha near Moscow, where the previous 1st Air Defence Corps was located. {{Armies of the Soviet Air Forces Air armies of the Soviet Air Forces Air armies of the Russian Air Forces Military units and formations established in 1942 Military units and formations disestablished in 2009 2002 establishments in Russia