6th independent Air Defence Army

6th independent Red Banner Air Defence Army

6-я отдельная Краснознамённая армия ПВО

Military Unit: 20032

Commanders:

Colonel-General Dmitriy Sergeevich Zherebin, 4.59 - 1.62
Colonel-General Nikolay Dmitrievich Antonov, 2.62 - 4.65
Colonel-General Vasiliy Nikolaevich Kubarev, 4.65 - 1973
Colonel-General Aleksey Grigorevich Smirnov, 17.8.73 - 3.80
Major-General Aleksandr Viktorovich Sokolov, 4.86 - 5.87
Lieutenant-General Viktor Fedorovich Miruk, 5.87 - 1990
Major-General German Vladimirovich Kromin, 1990 - 1991
Lieutenant-General A.P. Ivanov, 1991 - 12.94
Colonel-General Gennadiy Borisovich Vasilev, 12.94 - 7.98
Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Ivanovich Basov, 7.98 - 4.00
Lieutenant-General Gennady Andreevich Torbov, 4.00 - 6.05
Lieutenant-General Vladimir Georgievich Sviridov, 6.05 - 9.09
Lieutenant-General Igor Vladimirovich Miroshnichenko, 9.09 - today

Activated 2.61 in Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast, from Leningradskaya Special Air Defence Army.

Organisation 1961:

18th Air Defence Corps (Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast)
14th Air Defence Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)

Red Banner awarded 22.2.68.

Organisation 1970:

18th Air Defence Corps (Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast)
14th Air Defence Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)

Organisation 1980:

18th Air Defence Corps (Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast)
14th Air Defence Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)

The air army was disbanded 15.3.80.

The 6th independent Air Defence Army was reactivated 4.86 from the 18th Air Defence Corps, now with:

204th Communications Center (Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast)
498th Training Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Opotchka, Pskov Oblast)
27th Air Defence Corps (Riga, Latvian SSR)
54th Air Defence Corps (Taytsy, Leningrad Oblast)
14th Air Defence Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)

7.98 renamed 6th Army VVS and PVO.

HQ:

Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Leningrad Oblast (Saint Petersburg), 1960 - 4.80 and 4.86 - today [59 56 25N, 30 19 03E]

Subordination:

GK PVO, 1960 - 4.80 and 4.86 - 5.98
GK VVS and PVO, 5.98 - today