List of regiments of the Russian Air Force

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The Russian Air Force, like the Soviet Air Forces before them, has the aviation regiment as its basic organisational unit. This page will slowly attempt to list all the regiments in Russian Air Force service since May 7, 1992, the date on which Boris Yeltsin decreed the establishment of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

Contents

Primary initial source for this listing is Piotr Butowski, 'Force Report: Russian Air Force,' Air Forces Monthly, July and August 2007. Other sources included Jane's World Air Forces, Issue 0, March 1996.

Air Force

Listings of Guards titles cannot yet be considered definitive; there are no doubt errors and omissions in the table. [1]

RegimentTypeLocationDivision
/Corps		FormationAircraftRemarks
/Titles
1st Guards Instructor Bomber Aviation RegimentIBAP Lebyazhye NAHQ VVSSu-24Training unit
2nd Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Dzhida 21st SAD 14th Air Army Su-24M; [2]
3rd Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Krymsk (air base) ? 4th Air Army Su-27 Ex 562nd IAP
3rd Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Krzywa, Poland 1961-92149 BAD 4th Air Army Briefly at Szprotawa, Poland, early 1992, 4 June 1992, then withdrawn to Lebyazhe, Volgograd Oblast, disbanded 1992 ( 51°18′34″N15°43′39″E / 51.30944°N 15.72750°E / 51.30944; 15.72750 ) [3]
9th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Kilp-Yavr (Poliarnyi)? 6th Air Army Su-27;Ex 941st IAP
11th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment RAP Marinovka Air Base ? 4th Air Army Su-24MR;2005 renamed 6972nd Aviation Base
14th Guards Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-VVS Khalino near Kursk NA 16th Air Army MiG-29Moved in 1998 from Zerdevka to Khalino [4]
18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment ShAPChernigovka303th SAD 11th Air Army Sukhoi Su-25 Galenki (air base) 1993-2009; Chernigovka from 2013
19th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Millerovo NA 4th Air Army MiG-29;
22nd Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Centralnaya Uglovaya (Artem)23 KPVO 11th Air Army Su-27;
23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP Dzemgi 25th DPVO 11th Air Army Su-27First -27SM unit
28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP-VVS Andreapol NA 16th Air Army MiG-29 Reformed from 33 IAP, withdrawn from Wittstock, GSFG 1994
31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP Zernograd NA 4th Air Army MiG-29; [5]
33rd Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Andreapol 16th Air Army MiG-29Disbanded 1994. [6]
35th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Zherdevka VVS MVO MiG-29Disbanded 1996.
41st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVOIAP Burevestnik, Iturup Island 24th Air Defence Division PVO 11th Air Defence Army?MiG-23ML/MLDDisbanded May 1994
47th Guards Reconnaissance Aviation RegimentRAP Shatalovo NA 16th Air Army MiG-25 and Su-24MR Pomerania Red Banner; 1988-93 named 1046th TsBPiPLS
52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Shaykovka 22nd TBAD 37th Air Army Tu-22M32009 became part of 6951st Aviation Base. Reported flying TU-22M3 aircraft in the fighting following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in 2022. [7]
54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP Savasleyka NAHQ PVOSu-27Disbanded 2005-06 (Holm: disbanded 2002 and absorbed by 3958 Aviation Base) [8]
67th Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Siverskiy-2NA 6th Air Army Su-24 [9]
79th Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Ukrainka 326th TBAD 37th Air Army TU-95MS
98th Guards Reconnaissance Aviation RegimentRAP Monchegorsk NA 6th Air Army MiG-25RB/U, Su-24MR [10]
103rd Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Smolensk NA 61st Air Army Il-76
110th Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Krechevitsy NA61st Air ArmyIl-76
117th Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Orenburg NA61st Air ArmyIl-76/An-12
120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP Domna, 27 km SW Chita NA 14th Air Army MiG-29;
121st Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Engels-2 22nd TBAD37th Air Army Tu-160
138th Independent Mixed Air RegimentOSAP Levashevo NA 6th Air Army An-12, An-26, Mi-8, Tu-134;
159th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Besovets NA 6th Air Army Su-27;
160th Training Aviation RegimentUAP Borisoglebsk 786th Training CentreHQ VVSSu-27
174th Guards Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVO Monchegorsk 21st Air Defence Corps10th Army PVOMiG-25, MiG-31Печенгский Red Banner named for B.F. Safonov, disbanded September 1, 2001 [11]
176th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-VVSMikha Tskhakaya (Senaki), Georgia?34th Air ArmyMiG-29Withdrawn to Bagai-Baranovka in 1992 and disbanded [12]
177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO IAP-PVO Lodeynoye Pole 54th Air Defence Corps 6th Air Defence Army Su-27Disbanded 2009
180th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO IAP-PVO Gromovo 54 ADC 6th Air Defence Army MiG-31Disbanded 2002
182nd Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAPUkrainka 326th TBAD 37th Air ArmyTu-95MS
184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment TBAPEngels-222nd TBAD37th Air ArmyTu-95MSIn Ukraine until 2000; reformed at Engels-2 on 1 September 2000. [13]
187th Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Chernigovka 303rd SAD 11th Air Army Su-25;
196th Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Migalovo 12th VTAD 61st Air Army Il-76
200th Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Belaya 326th TBAD 37th Air ArmyTu-22M3/MR
209th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAPPrivolzhskiy 12th Air Defence Corps Russian Air Defence Forces Su-27Formed from amalgamation of 393 Gv IAP and 529 IAP. Amalgamated with 562 IAP 2001 and became 3 Gv IAP.
226th Independent Mixed Aviation RegimentOSAP Kubinka NA KSN Mi-8, Mi-9, An-12, An-24, An-26, An-30
237th Guards Air Technology Demonstration CentreTsPAT Kubinka NA 16th Air Army MiG-29, Su-27, Su-27M, L-39C
257th Independent Mixed Aviation RegimentOSAPKhabarovsk-BolshoyNA 11th Air Army An-12, An-26, Mi-8;
265th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVO Poduzhemye, Karelian ASSR 23rd Air Defence Division 10th Air Defence Army Sukhoi Su-27Disbanded 1994. [14]
266th Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Step 21 SAD 14th Air Army Su-25;
274th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-BombersAPIB Migalovo VVS MVO Su-17 Disbanded 1993. [15]
277th Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Khurba 303 SAD 11th Air Army Su-24 Reformed into the 3rd Combat Regiment before 2022. [16]
296th Bomber Air RegimentBAP Marinovka 10 BAD 4 A VVS i PVO Su-24Disbanded after 2002
302nd Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Verino 303 SAD 11th Air Army Su-24
313th Reconnaissance Aviation RegimentRAP Bada 21 SAD 14th Air Army Su-24MR;
334th Transport Aviation regimentVTAP Pskov NA61st Air ArmyIl-76
343rd Instructional Fighter Aviation RegimentIIAP Sennoy MiG-29Disbanded 1998. [17]
368th Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Budyonnovsk NA 4th Air Army Su-25
431st Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVOAfrikanda 10th Air Defence Army Su-15 Formed January 1942; merged with 641 GvIAP in September 1993 to form 470 GvIAP. [18]
444th Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Ussuriysk 326th TBAD 37th Air ArmyTu-22M3
445th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVOSavatiya (Kotlas)23rd Air Defence Division 10th Air Defence Army MiG-25PFormed July 1941; 1993 absorbed by the 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO. [19]
455th Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Chertovitskoye, Voronezh 105 SAD 16th Air Army Su-24
458th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Savatiya (Kotlas)NA 6th Air Army MiG-25U, MiG-31;
461st Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Krasnodar NA 4th Air Army Su-25Partially formed from portion of 80 OShAP withdrawn from Azerbaijan
470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP-PVO Afrikanda NA 6th Air Army Su-27Disbanded September 1, 2001 [20]
472nd Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP-PVOKursk7th Division of PVOMoscow Dist PVO?MiG-23SDisbanded May 1, 1998 [21]
518th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVOIAP-PVO Talagi Airport Corps PVO 10th Air Defence Army MiG-31Formed 1941, disbanded 1998. [22]
524th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVOLetneozersk22nd Air Defence Corps 10th Air Defence Army Mikoyan MiG-25PDisbanded 1994 [23]
530th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Sokolovka 23 PVO 11th Air Army MiG-25PU, MiG-31
535th Independent Mixed Aviation RegimentOSAPRostov on DonNA 4th Air Army Mi-8, An-12 and An-26
559th Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Morozovsk NA 4th Air Army Su-24
566th Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Seshcha 12th VTAD61st Air ArmyIl-76/An-124
611th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVO Dorokhovo 32nd KPVO KSN Su-27
708th Transport Aviation RegimentVTAP Taganrog NA61st Air ArmyIl-7615.10.09 renamed 798th Guards Kerch Red Banner Military-Transport Aviation Regiment. Awards from the 192nd Guards Military-Transport Aviation Regiment. (Holm)
712th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP-PVO Kansk None 14th Air Army MiG-25PU, MiG-31
722nd Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Smuravyevo NA 6th Air Army Su-24;
763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP MiG-31 Disbanded 1998.
750th Training Aviation RegimentUAPOrsk, Orenburg Oblast43 TsBPiPLS DA Long Range Aviation Tupolev Tu-134UBL Disbanded 1998.
764th Fighter Aviation Regiment IAP Bolshoye Savino NoneHQ VVSMiG-25PU, MiG-31
765th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVOIAP-PVO Salka, Sverdlovsk Oblast 20th Air Defence Corps 4th Air Defence Army Disbanded 1994? [24]
773rd Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP Andreapol 16 GvIAD 16th Air Army MiG-29 Absorbed by 28 GvIAP, MAy 1994. [25]
790th Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVO Khotilovo 32 KPVO KSN MiG-31, MiG-25U
799th Reconnaissance Aviation RegimentRAP Varfolomeyevka NA 11th Air Army Su-24MR, MiG-25RB(?);
840th Heavy Bomber Aviation RegimentTBAP Soltsy-2 22nd TBAD37th Air ArmyTu-22M3
849th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO IAP-PVO Kupino, Novosibirsk Oblast 41st Air Defence Division 14th Independent Air Defence Army MiG-23ML/MLDKupino 1962–98. Disbanded 1 August 1998. [26]
865th Red Banner Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-PVO Yelizovo 6th Air Defence Division 11th Air Defence Army Mikoyan MiG-31 Transferred to Pacific Fleet on 1 July 1998 [27]
871st Fighter Aviation RegimentIAP-VVS Smolensk ? 16th Air Army?Su-27Pomerania Red Banner; Withdrawn from Kolobrezg, Poland, disbanded 1993-8
899th Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Buturlinovka 105 SAD 16th Air Army Su-25
959th Bomber Aviation RegimentBAP Yeysk NA 4th Air Army Su-24 and L-39C;
960th Assault Aviation RegimentShAP Primorsko-Akhtarsk NA 4th Air Army Su-25;
968th Sevastopol Research-Instructor Composite Aviation RegimentIIAP Lipetsk 4 TsBPiPLSHQ VVSMiG-29, Su-25, Su-27/M, Su-30, Su-24M/MP/34 Altenburg, East Germany, 1989-Apr 92. [28]

Army aviation component

In December 2003 all aviation assets of the Russian Ground Forces were transferred to the Air Force.

RegimentTypeLocationFormationAircraftRemarks
/Titles
45th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Vorotynsk KSN Mi-24 Renamed from 336 OVP to 45 OVP 2000 or 2001 [29]
55th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Korenovsk 4th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24
112th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Chita 14th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24
225th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Protasovo near Ryazan ?Mi-8/241998 225 OVP disbanded and replaced by 865 Heli Reserve Base (BRV) [29]
319th Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle ControlOVP BU Chernigovka 11th Air ArmyMi-24
325th Independent Transport-Combat Helicopter RegimentOTBVPYegorlykskaya4th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-26
332nd Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle ControlOVP BU Pribylovo 6th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24
337th Independent Helicopter Regiment OVP Tolmachevo (previously Berdsk)14th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24/Mi-28
361st Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Dolinsk-Sokol 11th Air ArmyMi-8
364th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVPSrednebelaya11th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24/Mi-26
440th Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle ControlOVP BU Vyazma KSN Mi-8/Mi-24
487th Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle ControlOVP BU Budyonnovsk 4th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-24
490th Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle ControlOVP BU Klokovo KSNMi-8/Mi-24
793rd Independent Helicopter RegimentOVP Kinel 5th Air ArmyMi-8/Mi-26
825th Independent Helicopter RegimentOVPGarovka11th Air Army Mi-6/Mi-8/Mi-26 35th Army [30]

Index of abbreviations

Although the titles of the regiments are translated, the regiment type sort uses the transliterated Russian abbreviation:

Other acronyms include:

The Russian word отдельный can be translated as either 'Independent,' 'Separate' or (rarely) 'Detached'; it designates a unit which is directly subordinate to a formation commander without an intermediate echelon, such as an Aviation Division. [32]

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