The 14th Air Army was an air army of the

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during

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and the

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and of the

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in the early

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period.

Soviet period

The Army was first formed from the Air Forces of the

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in June 1942, and in 1943 participated in the Novgorod-Luga operation. In February 1944 it was dispersed, with the command staff assigned to the

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(RVGK) and its units to other air armies. Reformed in April 1944, when it served with the 3rd Baltic Front, it was again dispersed in November 1944, with its staff again been allocated to the Stavka Reserve and its units to other formations. It was active on 1 May 1945 with the 107th Air Signals Regiment and the 30th Air Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet (

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), as part of the RVGK. However it became the 57th Air Army on 10 January 1949. 57th Air Army was included in 1964

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war planning, being planned to be moved forward from the

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to become part of the Czechoslovak Front if war broke out between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Міг-25рб 48 ограп

Reformed from the 57th Air Army in April 1968, and awarded the

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, the 14th Air Army (which seems to have had the

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18466 from this point on at least) was serving in the

when the Soviet Union fell. In 1988-91 it consisted of the 4th Fighter Aviation Division (two MiG-29 regiments, 92nd and 145th Fighter Aviation Regiments in 1990) ( Ivano-Frankovsk), the 289th Bomber Aviation Division (two Su-24 regiments)(

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), a regiment of Su-25s (Chortkov), a reconnaissance regiment of MiG-25s (48 GvORAP at

Kolomyia (air base) Kolomyia was a military airfield located in Kolomyia, Ukraine. It had a regiment of MiG-25s (48 GvORAP) and 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade, MiG-29/UB, all part of 14th Air Army. The base was also home to the 668th Bomber Aviation Regiment ...

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

?), a mixed regiment of transport aircraft (

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), and a helicopter electronic squadron.

Under the Ukrainian flag

Its units became part of the

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after the

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on 25 December 1991. The formation was reorganized as the 14th Air Corps in accordance with an order of the

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dated 2 March 1994. In 2001, it included the 6th Fighter Aviation Division at Ivano-Frankivsk with the 9th ( Ozerne) and 114th (Ivano-Frankivsk) Fighter Aviation Regiments and the 289th Bomber Aviation Division at Lutsk with the 806th (Lutsk) and 947th (

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) Bomber Aviation Regiments. The 452nd Separate Assault Aviation Regiment at Chortkiv, 48th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment at Kolomyia, and 243rd Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment at Lvov were directly subordinate to corps headquarters. On 27 July 2002, 77 people were killed and around 300 wounded when a Su-27 crashed in the Sknyliv airshow disaster, held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 14th Air Army. As a result of the accident, corps commander Lieutenant General Serhiy Onyshchenko was transferred and corps deputy commander Major General Anatoly Tretyakov was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released early in 2007. In accordance with an order of the Commander of the

dated 2 December 2004, the corps was disbanded and its units transferred to the new Air Command West.

Commanders

*Lieutenant-General Ivan Petrovich Zhuravlev, 27.7.42 - 2.47 *Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Georgievich Ryazanov, 2.47 - 4.49 *Colonel-General Sergey Kondratevich Goryunov, 4.49 - 2.50 *Chief Marshal of Aviation Konstantin Vershinin, 2.50 - 9.50 *Colonel-General Vasliliy Vasilevich Stepichev, 9.50 - 1.53 *Lieutenant-General David Yakovlevich Slobozhan, 1.53 - 9.53 *Colonel-General Vasliliy Vasilevich Stepichev, 9.53 - 2.56 *Colonel-General Fedor Petrovich Polynin, 2.56 - 8.59

References

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