High Command Air Defence Forces (GK PVO)

Главное командование Противовоздушной обороны (ГК ПВО)

Military Unit: 73900

Commanders:

• Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, 27.5.54 - 14.4.55
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Semenovich Biryuzov, 14.4.55 - 24.4.62
• Marshal of Aviation Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sudets, 24.4.62 - 1.7.66
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Pavel Fedorovich Batitskiy, 1.7.66 - 28.7.78
• Chief Marshal of Aviation Aleksandr Ivanovich Koldunov, 28.7.78 - 11.6.87
• General of the Army Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak, 11.6.87 - 31.8.91
• General of the Army Viktor Alekseevich Prudnikov, 31.8.91 - 18.12.97
• Colonel-General Viktor Pavlovich Sinitsin, 18.12.97 - 2.98

Activated 5.54 in Balashika, Moscow Oblast, as the Air Defence Forces of the Nation (PVO Strany).

Organisation 1962:

• 319th Command Point (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 132nd Central Communications Center (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 978th independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Klin, Moscow Oblast)
• Moscow Air Defence District (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• Baku Air Defence District (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 2nd independent Air Defence Army (Minsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 4th independent Air Defence Army (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 6th independent Air Defence Army (Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast)
• 8th independent Air Defence Army (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• 10th independent Air Defence Army (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk Oblast)
• 11th independent Air Defence Army (Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 14th independent Air Defence Army (Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast)
• 9th independent Air Defence Corps (Kazan, Kazan Oblast)
• 25th independent Air Defence Corps (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast)
• 30th independent Air Defence Corps (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• Military Command Academy for Air Defence (Kalinin (Tver), Kalinin Oblast)
• Artillery Radio-Technical Academy of the Soviet Army (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
• 148th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel PVO (Savostleyka, Gorkiy Oblast)
• Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots PVO (Armavir, Krasnodar Kray)

Organisation 1970:

• 319th Command Point (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 132nd Central Communications Center (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 978th independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Klin, Moscow Oblast)
• 67th independent Aviation Squadron for Long-Range Radar Detection (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR)
• Moscow Air Defence District (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• Baku Air Defence District (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 2nd independent Air Defence Army (Minsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 4th independent Air Defence Army (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 6th independent Air Defence Army (Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast)
• 8th independent Air Defence Army (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• 10th independent Air Defence Army (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk Oblast)
• 11th independent Air Defence Army (Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 12th independent Air Defence Army (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• 14th independent Air Defence Army (Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast)
• Military Command Academy for Air Defence (Kalinin (Tver), Kalinin Oblast)
• Military Engineering Radio-Technical Academy for Air Defence (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
• 148th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel PVO (Savostleyka, Gorkiy Oblast)
• Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots PVO (Armavir, Krasnodar Kray)
• Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators PVO (Stavropol, Stavropol Kray)

Organisation 1980:

• 319th Command Point (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 132nd Central Communications Center (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 978th independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Klin, Moscow Oblast)
• 67th independent Aviation Squadron for Long-Range Radar Detection (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR)
• Moscow Air Defence District (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• Baku Air Defence District (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 2nd independent Air Defence Army (Minsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 4th independent Air Defence Army (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 6th independent Air Defence Army (Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast)
• 8th independent Air Defence Army (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• 10th independent Air Defence Army (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk Oblast)
• 11th independent Air Defence Army (Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 12th independent Air Defence Army (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• 14th independent Air Defence Army (Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast)
• Military Command Academy for Air Defence (Kalinin (Tver), Kalinin Oblast)
• Military Engineering Radio-Technical Academy for Air Defence (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
• 148th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel PVO (Savostleyka, Gorkiy Oblast)
• Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots PVO (Armavir, Krasnodar Kray)
• Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators PVO (Stavropol, Stavropol Kray)

1981 renamed Air Defence Forces (Voyska PVO).

Organisation 1988:

• 319th Command Point (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 132nd Central Communications Center (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 978th independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Klin, Moscow Oblast)
• Moscow Air Defence District (Balashika, Moscow Oblast)
• 2nd independent Air Defence Army (Minsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 4th independent Air Defence Army (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 6th independent Air Defence Army (Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast)
• 8th independent Air Defence Army (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• 10th independent Air Defence Army (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk Oblast)
• 11th independent Air Defence Army (Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 12th independent Air Defence Army (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• 14th independent Air Defence Army (Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast)
• 19th independent Air Defence Army (Tbilisi, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• Military Command Academy for Air Defence (Kalinin (Tver), Kalinin Oblast)
• Military Engineering Radio-Technical Academy for Air Defence (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
• 148th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel PVO (Savostleyka, Gorkiy Oblast)
• Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots PVO (Armavir, Krasnodar Kray)
• Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators PVO (Stavropol, Stavropol Kray)

2.98 renamed Air Force and Air Defence Forces.

HQ:

• Balashika, Moscow Oblast, 1954 - 2.98 [central command point: 55 46 11N, 38 02 24E - including UK-90B command bunker]