3rd Guards Smolenskaya orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Military-Transport Aviation Division

3-я гвардейская военно-транспортная Смоленская орденов Суворова и Кутузова авиационная дивизия

Military Unit: 35733

Activated 24.5.42 in Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, as the 204th Bomber Aviation Division.

3.9.43 renamed 3rd Guards Bomber Aviation Division.

Organisation May 1945:

• 119th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kamenskoye (Saalau), Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2
• 122nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kamenskoye (Saalau), Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2
• 123rd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Kamenskoye (Saalau), Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2

In 4.46 the 122nd Guards and 123rd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiments were disbanded, while the 119th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment was transferred to the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division.

27.4.46 renamed 3rd Guards Transport Aviation Division with:

• 24th Guards Transport Aviation Regiment (Polotsk-Borovukha, Vitebsk Oblast) with Li-2
• 339th Transport Aviation Regiment (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast) with Li-2
• 369th Transport Aviation Regiment (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast) with Li 2

12.10.55 renamed 3rd Guards Military-Transport Aviation Division.

Organisation 1960:

• 334th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Pskov-Kresty, Pskov Oblast) with Il-14
• 339th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast) with An-12
• 369th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast) with Il-14
• 196th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Tartu, Estonian SSSR) with Tu-4D

Organisation 1975:

• 110th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Novgorod-Krechevitsy, Novgorod Oblast) with An-12
• 334th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Pskov-Kresty, Pskov Oblast) with An-12
• 339th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast) with Il-76

Organisation 1991:

• 110th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Novgorod-Krechevitsy, Novgorod Oblast) with Il-76
• 334th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Pskov-Kresty, Pskov Oblast) with Il-76
• 339th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast) with Il-76

Organisation 2000:

• 103rd Guards Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast)
• 110th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Novgorod-Krechevitsy, Novgorod Oblast) with Il-76
• 334th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Pskov-Kresty, Pskov Oblast) with Il-76
• 708th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Taganrog, Rostov Oblast) with Il-76

Disbanded 2001.

Bases:

• Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, 4.46 - 1949 [55 36 28N, 28 40 45E]
• Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast, 1949 - 1992 [55 15 16N, 30 14 55E]
• Novgorod-Krechevitsy, Novgorod Oblast, 1992 - 12.95 [58 37 30N, 31 22 55E]
• Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, 12.95 - 2001 [54 49 25N, 31 01 36E]

Subordination:

• 1st Air Army, 1942 - 9.44
• Reserve VGK, 9.44 - 10.44
• 3rd Air Army, 10.44 - 4.46
• HQ VDV, 1946 - 1955
• HQ VTA, 1955 - 1998
• 61st Air Army, 1998 - 2001