340th independent Breslavskiy Helicopter Regiment

340-й отдельный вертолётный Бреславский полк

Military Unit: 22672

Activated 17.11.59 in Kalinov, Sumska Oblast, from the 340th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment.

21.8.68 transferred to Czechoslovakia (Prag?), when the Warzaw Pact invaded - there about a month.

Selected crews served in Afghanistan 6.81-7.82, attached to the 3rd Squadron/280th independent Helicopter Regiment (Mi-8).

1.1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Bases:

• Kalinov, Sumska Oblast, 11.59 - 1.1.92 [49 33 05N, 23 20 00E]

Aircraft:

• Mi-4, 1961-1973
• Mi-6, 1964-1989
• Mi-8, 1972-1992
• Mi-26, 1986-1992

Inventory:

• 11.90 with 24 Mi-26 and 40 Mi-8 (CFE treaty data exchange)

Subordination:

• 57th Air Army, 11.59 - 1968
• 14th Air Army, 1968 - 1986
• Carpathian Military District, 1986 - 1992