The 95th Fighter Aviation Division (95th IAD) was a fighter aviation division of the

Soviet Air Forces The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

. The division was originally formed in 1949 as the 95th Mixed Aviation Division and became a fighter aviation division in 1954. It was disbanded in 1988 and was based in

Shchuchyn Shchuchyn and Ščučyn ( be, Шчучын, Ščučyn, ; russian: Щýчин, ; pl, Szczuczyn Litewski; lt, Šukynas; Yiddish: שטשוטשין, Shtshutshin) is a city in the Grodno Region of Belarus. It is the center of Shchuchyn District. Th ...

from 1960.

History

The 95th Mixed Aviation Division was formed in July 1949 in Markovo, part of the

29th Air Army 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

. It was composed of the 214th Guards Transport Aviation Regiment and the 911th Fighter Aviation Regiment. In December 1953, the division was transferred west to

Byaroza Biaroza ( be, Бяро́за, official Belarusian romanization standard: ''Biaroza'', formerly Бяро́за-Карту́зская; rus, Берёза, Beryoza; pl, Bereza Kartuska; Yiddish: קאַרטוז־בערעזע, tr. ''Kartùz-Bereze'' ...

and became a fighter aviation division in 1954. It was subordinated to the

26th Air Army The 26th Air Army was an Air army of the Soviet Air Forces active from 1949 to 1980, and then 1988-1992. It was formed by redesignation of the 1st Air Army in February 1949 (in accordance with a decree of 10 January 1949, ГШ ВС СССР No. ...

. In 1955, it included the 911th, 940th and the 968th Fighter Aviation Regiments. Between 1957 and 1959, future cosmonaut Dmitri Zaikin served as a chief pilot in the division. The division relocated to Shchuchyn in 1960. Its 911th and 940th Fighter Aviation Regiments were transferred and replaced by the 927th ( :ru:927-й истребительный авиационный полк) at Bereza and 979th Fighter Aviation Regiments. In April 1980, the division became part of the

Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District (russian: Белорусский военный округ, translit=Belorusskiy Voyenyi Okrug; alternatively Belarusian; ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally formed just before Wor ...

VVS after the 26th Air Army was renamed. Elements of the 927th and 979th Fighter Aviation Regiments fought in the Soviet-Afghan War. The division was disbanded in June 1988. The 927th Fighter Aviation Regiment became part of the

Belarus Air Force The Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus ( be, Ваенна-паветраныя сілы і войскі супрацьпаветранай абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь, Vajenna-pavietranyja sily i ...

after the collapse of the Soviet Union.{{Cite web, title = 927-Й ЦЕНТР ПОДГОТОВКИ И ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ БЕСПИЛОТНЫХ АВИАЦИОННЫХ КОМПЛЕКСОВ {{! Во славу Родины – Свежий выпуск, url = http://vsr.mil.by/2014/06/28/927-j-centr-podgotovki-i-primeneniya-bespilotnyx-aviacionnyx-kompleksov/, website = vsr.mil.by, access-date = 2016-01-18, language = ru, trans-title = 927th Centre for Preparation and Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

References

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