15th Guards Fighter Aviation Division

15th Guards Stalingradskaya Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Aviation Division PVO

15-я гвардейская истребительная Сталинградская Краснознаменная ордена Богдана Хмельницкого авиационная дивизия ПВО

Military Unit: 10317

Activated 18.5.42 as the 235th Fighter Aviation Division.

19.8.44 renamed 15th Guards Fighter Aviation Division.

Organisation 5.45 (Ober Glogau, Germany):

12.45 to 3.47 the 848th Fighter Aviation Regiment was attached to the division as the 4th regiment.

6.49 renamed 15th Guards Fighter Aviation Division PVO.

Organisation 1950:

3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Orel, Orel Oblast) with MiG-9
180th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Orel, Orel Oblast) with MiG-9

In 3.52 the 180th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was replaced by the 472nd Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

In 3.58 the 178th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO joined the division.

Organisation 1960:

3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Orel, Orel Oblast) with MiG-17
178th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Kursk, Kursk Oblast) with MiG-17
472nd Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Orel, Orel Oblast) with MiG-17 and MiG-19

Disbanded 4.60.

Bases:

Ober Glogau, Germany, 5.45 - 7.45
Gorodok, Lvov Oblast, 7.45 - 6.49 [49 49 32N, 23 41 27E]
Orel, Orel Oblast, 6.49 - 10.50 [52 56 10N, 36 00 06E]
Peking area, China, 10.50 - 3.52
Orel, Orel Oblast, 3.52 - 4.60 [52 56 10N, 36 00 06E]

Subordination:

10th Fighter Aviation Corps, 7.43 - 6.49
32nd Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 9.48 - 10.50
64th Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 10.50 - 3.52
32nd Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 3.52 - 10.52
78th Guards Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 10.52 - 5.60