This is an incomplete list of corps and Aviation Divisions of the Russian Air Force and Russian Air Defence Force (PVO) active from 1992 to the present.
Corps/Division | Type | Headquarters | Formation | Equipment | Remarks |
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1st Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Balashikha | 16th Air Army | surface-to-air missiles only | |
1st Air Defense Division | dPVO | Severomorsk | 45th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
1st Guards Composite Aviation Division | SAD | Krasnodar | 4th Air Army | Su-24/Su-25/L-39 | Disbanded 2009 [1] |
2nd Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
3rd Air Defense Division | dPVO | 45th Air and Air Defense Army | |||
4th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
5th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
7th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Kursk | Moscow Order of Lenin Air Defence District | Fighters, radars, SAMs | 1994 Reorganization of the 7th Air Defence Corps, Disbanded 1998 [2] |
8th Special Purpose Aviation Division | ADON | Chkalovsky Airport, Moscow Oblast | HQ VVS | transport aircraft | |
5th Separate Air Defence Corps | Urals | HQ VVS | Redesignation of 4th Independent Air Defence Army, 1994. Amalgamated into 5th Army of VVS and PVO, 1998. | ||
8th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Komsomolsk-na-Amure | 11th Independent Air Defence Army | Fighters, radars, SAMs | 2001 renamed 25th Air Defence Division; 2009 11th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
9th Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Kubinka (air base) | Air Forces of the Moscow Military District | Fighters | Activated 1 February 1951. Disbanded 1993. [3] |
9th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Moscow Military District | 1st Air Defence Corps | Surface to air missiles | May include S-400 units |
12th Military Transport Aviation Division | VTAD | Migalovo | 61st Air Army | Il-76/An-22/An-124 | |
16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | IAD | Millerovo | 4th Air Army | Fighters - arrived from GSFG 1993 | |
19th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Chelyabinsk | 4th Independent Air Defence Army | Fighters, radars, SAMs | Disbanded 1994 [4] |
20th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Perm | 4th Air Defence Army | Disbanded 1994. | |
21st Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Severomorsk | 6th Air Army | SAMs, radars, Su-27/MiG-31 | 2009 renamed 1st Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
21st Mixed Aviation Division | SAD | Dzhida | 14th Air Army | Su-24M/Su-25/Su-24MR | |
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division | TBAD | Engels-2, Engels | 37th Air Army | Tu-22M3/Tu-95MS/Tu-160 | |
22nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Arkhangelsk | 10th Independent Air Defence Army | 1993 renamed 22 AD Corps; 1994 renamed 22 AD Div. | Disbanded 1.5.02. [5] |
23rd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Vladivostok | 11th Independent Air Defence Army | Su-27/MiG-25PU/MiG-31 | 2001 renamed 93rd ADD; 2009 renamed 12th Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
22nd Guards Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
25th Air Defence Division | dPVO | Komsomolsk-on-Amur | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | Su-27 | |
26th Guards Air Defence Division | dPVO | Chita | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
28th Air Defense Division | dPVO | Created in 1963 on the basis of the former 25h Air Defense Corps, disbanded in 1998. Reformed as 76th Air Defense Division | |||
31st Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
32nd Air Defense Division | dPVO | Rzhev | 6th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
32nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Rzhev | Special Purpose Command | Su-27/MiG-31/MiG-25U | Renamed 32nd Air Defense Division |
38th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Novosibirsk | 14th Independent Air Defence Army | Fighters, SAMs, radars | 1994 renamed 41st Air Defence Division |
41st Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
44th Air Defense Division | dPVO | ||||
50th Guards Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Atamanovka, Chita Oblast | 14th Independent Air Defence Army | 1.12.98 renamed 26th Guards ADD; 2009 renamed 10th Gds Aerospace Defence Brigade. | |
51st Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Rostov on Don | 4th Air Army | Su-27/MiG-29 | 1992 renamed 51st Air Defence Corps. Also SAMs, radars |
51st Air Defense Division | dPVO | Novocherkassk | 4th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
54th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast | 6th Air Army | Su-27 | 2009 renamed 2nd Aerospace Defence Brigade. |
56th Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Semipalatinsk | 14 OA PVO | Fighters, SAMs, radars | Disbanded 1994. |
72nd Air Defence Corps | KPVO | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka | 11 OA PVO | Fighters, SAMs, radars | 1990 merger of 6 and 24 Air Defence Divisions; August 1994 renamed 6th Air Defence Division. May 1998 renamed VVS and PVO OKVS (VVS and PVO Northeast Russian Federation). [6] |
76th Air Defense Division | dPVO | Samara | 14th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
93rd Air Defense Division | dPVO | Vladivostok | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | ||
94th Air Defence Division | KPVO | Irkutsk | 14th Independent Air Defence Army | Fighters, SAMs, radars | Fmr 39 ADC (2/88). 1998 merged with 50th Gds ADC, became 26 Gds ADD. |
105th Composite Aviation Division | SAD | Voronezh | Special Purpose Command | Su-24/Su-25 | |
149th Mixed Aviation Division | SAD | Smuravyevo | 76th Air Army | Su-24 | Disbanded 1998 [7] |
303rd Mixed Aviation Division | Khurba | 11th Air and Air Defense Army | Mig-31, SU-35, SU-34 | ||
326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division | TBAD | Ukrainka | 37th Air Army | Tu-22M3/MR, Tu-95MS | |
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