73rd Air Army

73-я Воздушная Армия

Military Unit: 23269; from 6.89: 61800

Commanders:

• Major-General Daniil Fedorovich Kondratyuk, 6.42 - 1.43
• Lieutenant-General Fedor Petrovich Polynin, 1.43 - 9.44
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Izotov, 1946 - 9.47
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Makarov Kosykh, 9.47 - 9.50
• Lieutenant-General Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Zabaluev, 9.50 - 2.52
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Aleksandrovich Vinogradov, 2.52 - 1.57
• Colonel-General Nikolay Petrovich Kamanin, 1.57 - 4.58
• Lieutenant-General Georgiy Kuzmich Platonenkov, 4.58 - 4.64
• Lieutenant-General Vitaliy Viktorovich Rybalka, 4.64 - 6.70
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Petrovich Andreev, 6.70 - 8.73
• Lieutenant-General Vadim Konstantinovich Andreev, 8.73 - 7.76
• Colonel-General Petr Ivanovich Belonozhko, 7.76 - 2.83
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Rusanov, 2.83 - 4.88
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Gennadievich Shkanakin, 4.88 - 7.91
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Pavlovich Timchenko, 7.91 - 1.93

Activated 1946 in Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast, as the 6th Air Army.

10.1.49 renamed 73rd Air Army.

Organisation 1962:

• 115th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 905th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Tokmak-2, Frunze Oblast)
• 217th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kzyl-Arvat, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 39th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Fergana, Fergana Oblast)
• 381st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Chimkent, Chimkent Oblast)
• 218th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 49th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Ak-Tepe, Ashkhabad Oblast)
• 87th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)

In June 1969 several units were transferred to the new VVS Turkmenistan Military District.

Organisation 1970:

• 10th Mixed Aviation Division (Ucharal, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 24th Mixed Aviation Division (Taldy-Kurgan, Taldy-Kurgan Oblast)
• 39th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan Oblast)
• 381st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Chimkent, Chimkent Oblast)
• 218th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 87th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)

5.80 renamed VVS Central Asian Military District.

Organisation 1980:

• 10th Fighter Aviation Division (Ucharal, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 24th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Taldy-Kurgan, Taldy-Kurgan Oblast)
• 39th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan Oblast)
• 381st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Chimkent, Chimkent Oblast)
• 218th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 87th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)

5.88 renamed 73rd Air Army.

Organisation 1990:

• 24th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (Taldy-Kurgan, Taldy-Kurgan Oblast)
• 10th Training Aviation Center (Ucharal, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 115th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kokaydy, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast)
• 905th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Taldy-Kurgan, Taldy-Kurgan Oblast)
• 39th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan Oblast)
• 381st independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Chimkent, Chimkent Oblast)
• 218th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)
• 87th independent Communications Regiment and Automated Control Regiment (Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast)

Disbanded 1.93.

Bases:

• Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata Oblast, 1946 - 1993 [43 13 11N, 76 54 04E]

Subordination:

• Turkmenistan Military District, 1946 - 6.69
• Central Asian Military District, 6.69 - 6.89
• Turkmenistan Military District, 6.89 - 1.92