The 894th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Russian: 894-й истребительный авиационный полк),

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23257, was a fighter aviation regiment 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 ...

in World War II, which then served with the

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 ...

for forty years after the war. From 1945 to 1992, it was based at Ozerne, in Zhitomir Oblast, in the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. Taken over by Ukraine in 1992, it was disbanded later that decade.

History

The regiment was established in April 1942 under the auspices of the 8th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment at Bagay-Baranovka in

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, from two separate fighter squadrons. It was later assigned to the 215th Mixed Aviation Division,

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, briefly in July 1942, and then to the 9th Fighter Aviation Corps PVO under the Western Air Defense Front (June 1943-May 1945). A single serviceman, Nikolai Abramchuk ( :ru:Абрамчук, Николай Иванович), serving with the regiment, was awarded the

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. During the war, it flew the

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; the

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; the

Yakovlev Yak-7 The Yakovlev Yak-7 (russian: Яковлев Як-7) was developed from the earlier Yak-1 fighter, initially as a trainer but converted into a fighter. As both a fighter and later reverting to its original training role, the Yak-7 proved to be a ...

, and then the

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from 1945-1950. The unit operated the

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(ASCC "Fishpot") in the 1960s, replacing it in 1979 with the

MiG-23 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generati ...

(Flogger-G).PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. The airfield hosted up to 38

MLD, ML, and UB models from 1979 to 1992 and onwards. In 1986, the regiment was reassigned from the

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of the

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to the 28th Air Defence Corps of the

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, Soviet Air Defence Forces. In its last years it flew the

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generati ...

ML/MLD. In 2000, under Ukrainian control, the regiment was redesignated the 9th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Later it was redesignated as a brigade.

References

* (944 pages) (circulation 1500). * {{cite web, last=Holm , title=894th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO , url=https://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/894iap.htm , date=2015 Fighter aviation regiments of the Soviet Union in World War II Military units and formations of Ukraine Military units and formations disestablished in 2000