14th Air Army

The 14th Air Army (14 Vozdushnaya Armiya) of the Russian Air Force, was first formed during the Second World War as part of the Soviet Air Force. It was disbanded in 2009.

The Army was first formed from the Air Forces of the Volkhov Front 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 Stavka Reserve 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 (Aeroflot), as part of the Stavka Reserve. However it became the 57th Air Army on 10 January 1949. Chief Marshal of Aviation Konstantin Vershinin was 57th Air Army commander in 1951. Colonel General of Aviation Polynin was commander 57th Air Army 1956-60. 57th Air Army was included in 1964 Warsaw Pact war planning, being planned to be moved forward from the Carpathian Military District to become part of the Czechoslovak Front if war broke out between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Reformed from the 57th Air Army in April 1968, the 14th Air Army was serving in the Carpathian Military District 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)(Lutsk), a regiment of Su-25s (Chortkov), a reconnaissance regiment of MiG-25s (48 GvORAP at Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast?), a mixed regiment of transport aircraft (Lvov), and a helicopter electronic squadron. Its units became part of the Ukrainian armed forces. The formation appears to have become the 14th Air Corps; in 2002, some years later, over 70 people were killed when a Su-27 crashed at an airshow at Sknyliv, held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 14th Air Army.

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