42nd Fighter Air Defence Army

42-я воздушная истребительная армия ПВО

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Georgiy Vasilevich Zimin, 6.49 - 12.51
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• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Grigorevich Machin, 8.56 - 2.59

Activated 1946 in Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, as the 7th Air Army.

20.2.49 (directive 10.1.49) renamed 62nd Air Army.

20.2.50 transferred to the Air Defence Forces (PVO) and renamed 42nd Fighter Air Defence Army.

Organisation 1950:

• 36th Fighter Aviation Corps PVO (Kirovabad, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 62nd Fighter Aviation Corps PVO (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Corps PVO (Krasnovodsk, Khorezmskaya Oblast)

Organisation 1960:

• 62nd Fighter Aviation Corps PVO (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Corps PVO (Krasnovodsk, Khorezmskaya Oblast)

Disbanded 1960.

Bases:

• Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, 1946 - 1960

Subordination:

• Baku Military District, 1946 - 5.46
• Baku Air Defence Region, 2.50 - 1954
• Baku Air Defence District, 1954 - 8.60