Long-Range Aviation

Дальняя Авиация

Military Unit: 44402; from 2.88: 42187

Commanders:

• Chief Marshal of Aviation Aleksandr Evgenevich Golovanov, 4.46 - 5.48
• Chief Marshal of Aviation Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 5.48 - 9.49
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Makarovich Nikolaenko, 11.49 - 8.50
• Colonel-General Sergey Ignatevich Rudenko, 8.50 - 6.53
• Chief Marshal of Aviation Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Novikov, 6.53 - 3.55
• Marshal of Aviation Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sudets, 3.55 - 4.62
• Marshal of Aviation Filipp Aleksandrovich Agaltsov, 4.62 - 1.69
• Colonel-General Vasiliy Vasilevich Reshetnikov, 1.69 - 8.80
• General of the Army Petr Stepanovich Deynekin, 5.88 - 10.90
• Colonel-General Igor Mikhailovich Kalugin, 11.90 - 11.97
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mikhailovich Oparin, 11.97 - 4.98
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Dmitrievich Zhikharev, from 5.8.09

Activated 3.4.46 in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, from the 18th Air Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 000 independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 5th Air Army (Blagovechensk, Amur Oblast)
• 43rd Air Army (Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Oblast)
• 50th Air Army (Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast)

Organisation 1970:

• 804th Central Communications Center (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 43rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel DA (Ryazan (Dyagilevo), Ryazan Oblast)
• 271st independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Ostafevo, Moscow Oblast)
• 2nd independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Oblast)
• 6th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast)
• 8th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Blagovechensk, Amur Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 804th Central Communications Center (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 43rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel DA (Ryazan (Dyagilevo), Ryazan Oblast)
• 271st independent Transport Aviation Regiment (Ostafevo, Moscow Oblast)
• 2nd independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Oblast)
• 6th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast)
• 8th independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps (Blagovechensk, Amur Oblast)

1.8.80 renamed 37th Air Army VGK (SN).

Re-activated 25.2.88 in Moscow, Moscow Oblast.

Organisation 1988:

• 804th Central Communications Center (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 43rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel DA (Ryazan (Dyagilevo), Ryazan Oblast)
• 30th Air Army VGK (SN) (Blagovechensk, Amur Oblast)
• 37th Air Army VGK (SN) (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 46th Air Army VGK (SN) (Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast)

The HQ of the Long-Range Aviation and the 37th Air Army VGK was merged 11.90 - 4.98.

4.98 disbanded.

5.8.09 re-activated in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, as the Long-Range Aviation Command, from the 37th Air Army VGK.

Bases:

• Moscow, Moscow Oblast, 1946 - today [HQ: 55 36 14N, 37 28 10E]

Subordination:

• HQ General Staff, 1946 - today