Baku Red Banner Air Defence District

Бакинский Краснознаменный округ ПВО

Military Unit: 44393

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin, 1954 - 4.56
• Colonel-General Vladimir Dmitrievich Ivanov, 4.56 - 8.59
• Colonel-General Afanasiy Fedorovich Scheglov, 8.59 - 7.66
• Colonel-General Fedor Akimovich Olifirov, 7.66 - 1973
• Colonel-General Anatoliy Ustinovich Konstantinov, 1973 - 5.80

Activated 1945 in Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, from the Baku Air Defence Army.

1948 renamed Baku Air Defence Region.

1954 renamed Baku Air Defence District.

Organisation 1962:

• 000 Communications Center (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 12th Air Defence Corps (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• 14th Air Defence Corps (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• 15th Air Defence Corps (Alyaty (Baku), Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 16th Guards Air Defence Division (Krasnovodsk, Ashkhabad Oblast)

The 10th Air Defence Division joined the district in 1963.

Organisation 1970:

• 000 Communications Center (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 12th Air Defence Corps (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• 14th Air Defence Corps (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• 15th Air Defence Corps (Alyaty (Baku), Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 10th Air Defence Division (Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast)
• 16th Guards Air Defence Division (Krasnovodsk, Ashkhabad Oblast)

The 10th Air Defence Division was disbanded in 1973.

Red Banner awarded 30.4.75.

Organisation 1978:

• 000 Communications Center (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 12th Air Defence Corps (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• 14th Air Defence Corps (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• 15th Air Defence Corps (Alyaty (Baku), Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 16th Guards Air Defence Division (Krasnovodsk, Ashkhabad Oblast)

Disbanded 30.5.80 (directive issued 5.1.80).

Headquarters:

• Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, 1945 - 1980

Subordination:

• GK PVO, 1945 - 1980