26th Fighter Aviation Division

26-я истребительная авиационная дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 12.50 in Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, as the 26th Fighter Aviation Division PVO.

10.51 transferred to the VVS.

Organisation 1952:

• 641st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Besovets, Karelian ASSR)

• 722nd Fighter Aviation Regiment (Besovets, Karelian ASSR)

• 772nd Fighter Aviation Regiment (Besovets, Karelian ASSR)

Organisation 1960:

• 641st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Besovets, Karelian ASSR)

• 722nd Fighter Aviation Regiment (Afrikanda, Murmansk Oblast)

• 265th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kem, Karelian ASSR)

Disbanded 1960.

Bases:

• Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, 12.50 - 25.10.51 [54 49 25N, 32 01 32E]

• Besovets, Karelian ASSR, 25.10.51 - 1960 [61 53 11N, 34 09 13E]

Subordinated:

• 32nd Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 12.50 - 25.10.51

• 22nd Air Army, 25.10.51 - 7.53

• 64th Fighter Aviation Corps, 7.53 - 1956

• 22nd Air Army, 1956 - 1960