5th Red Banner Air Army

5-я Воздушная Краснознамённая Армия

Military Unit: 13700

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Sergey Kondratevich Goryunov, 6.42 - 5.46
• Colonel-General Stepan Ulyanovich Rubanov, 5.46 - 9.47
• Major-General Dmitriy Dmitrievich Popov, 9.47 - 11.49
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Pavlovich Galunov, 11.49 - 12.50
• Lieutenant-General Daniil Fedorovich Kondratyuk, 12.50 - 3.52
• Colonel-General Boris Arsentevich Sidnev, 3.52 - 4.61
• Lieutenant-General Pavel Borisovich Dankevich, 4.61 - 8.61
• Lieutenant-General Pavel Stepanovich Kutakhov, 8.61 - 7.67
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Avramovich Alekseenko, 10.67 - 6.74
• Lieutenant-General Igor Sergeevich Trofimov, 7.74 - 4.77
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Shmagin, 4.77 - 12.79
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Aleksandrovich Biryukov, 12.79 - 3.85
• Colonel-General Evgeniy Ivanovich Shaposhnikov, 3.85 - 6.87
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Andreevich Vasilev, 7.89 - 1.91
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Ivanovich Lipatov, 1.91 - 8.91
• Major-General Viktor Ivanovich Strelnikov, 8.91 - 1.92

Activated 6.42.

Organisation 5.45:

• 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Corps
• 3rd Guards Assault Aviation Corps
• 5th Assault Aviation Corps
• 218th Bomber Aviation Division
• 312th Night-Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division
• 279th Fighter Aviation Division
• 331st Fighter Aviation Division
• 511th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
• 95th Transport Aviation Regiment
• 207th independent Artillery Correction Regiment
• 44th Aviation Regiment GVF

10.1.49 renamed 48th Air Army.

During 1947 to 1958 also controlled the few Soviet aviation units remaining in Romania.

Organisation 1962:

• 119th Fighter Aviation Division (Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR)
• 642nd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Voznesensk, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 511th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Buyalyk, Odessa Oblast)
• 827th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 112th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• 43rd independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

4.4.68 renamed 5th Air Army.

Organisation 1970:

• 119th Fighter Aviation Division (Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR)
• 642nd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Voznesensk, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 511th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Buyalyk, Odessa Oblast)
• 827th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Limanskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 112th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• 43rd independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

4.80 renamed VVS Odessa Military District.

The 511th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment left the army in 1980 for the 24th Air Army VGK.

Organisation 1980:

• 119th Fighter Aviation Division (Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR)
• 642nd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Voznesensk, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 827th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Limanskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 29th independent Training Aviation Regiment (Berdyansk, Zaporoshye Oblast)
• 112th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• 208th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare (Buyalyk, Odessa Oblast)
• 43rd independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

The 90th independent Assault Aviation Regiment joined the army in 1983, but was disbanded 1989.

The 153rd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron was activated in 1984.

5.88 renamed 5th Air Army.

In 12.89 the 119th Fighter Aviation Division was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet.

Organisation 1990:

• 642nd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Voznesensk, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 827th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Limanskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 29th Instructor Bomber Aviation Regiment (Berdyansk, Zaporoshye Oblast)
• 112th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• 153rd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Kishinev, Moldovian SSR)
• 208th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare (Buyalyk, Odessa Oblast)
• 43rd independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

The 294th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare joined the army in 5.90 from Hungary.

The 29th Instructor Bomber Aviation Regiment left the army in 9.90.

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Bases:

• Odessa, Odessa Oblast, 1945 - 1992 [46 28 03N, 30 45 04E]

Subordination:

• Odessa Military District, 1945 - 1992