5th Air Army DA

5-я Воздушная Армия ДА

Military Unit: 15496

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Andreevich Kartakov, 1957 - 7.60

Activated 1957 in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, from the 84th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps.

Organisation 1958:

• 53rd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Belaya, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 55th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Vozdvizhenka, Primorskiy Kray)
• 73rd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Ukrainka, Amur Oblast)
• 219th independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Spassk-Dalniy (Khvalynka), Primorskiy Kray)

The 79th Heavy bomber Aviation Division was activated 12.58.

1.7.60 renamed 8th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps.

Bases:

• Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, 1957 - 7.60

Subordination:

• Long-Range Aviation (DA), 1957 - 7.60