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The 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (Russian: 11-я гвардейская истребительная авиационная Днепропетровская Краснознамённая ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизияw) as an aviation division of the Soviet Air Forces, active from 1943 to 1991. It served in the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary for many years.
The 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division was originally formed from the 207th Fighter Aviation Division.[1]
During the Second World War, it was part of the "operational army" from:[2] August 24, 1943 to January 6, 1944, 135 days in total; and from May 18, 1944 to May 11, 1945,[2] 358 days in total, totalling together 493 days. It fought in the:
The 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (11 GvIAD) moved from Parndorf in Austria to Veszprém in Hungary in November 1945.[3] Though it moved to Hungary, it remained under the command of 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps.
The division was stationed at Veszprem until September 1949. It came under the command of the 78th Guards Fighter Aviation Corps in January 1949. On 20 February 1949, it was renamed 195th Guards Dnepropetrovsk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Fighter Aviation Division.[4] In 1950 the division comprised the 1st, 5th, and 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiments at Tokol and Pápa flying Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s. In 1956 it was involved in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and in 1968 in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was disbanded in mid-1961 and was replaced by the 14th 'Leningradskiy' Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.[3] The 1st Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment became separate of the division, reporting directly to 36th Air Army, in mid-1963, and from July 1960 to 22 April 1991 with two short breaks was stationed at Kunmadaras.
The 195th Guards Fighter Aviation Dnepropetrovsk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division was renamed by the Directive of the General Staff in April 1968 into the 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Dnepropetrovsk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division.
14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kiskunlacháza, Hungary) with MiG-21
515th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Tököl, Hungary) with MiG-21
The 14th GvIAP was based in 1981 at Kiskunlachaza air base in Hungary. The 14th acquired MiG-23Ms in 1975 and in 1979 also received MLs. The MiG-23s were replaced by MiG-29s in 1986. Elements of the regiment took part in the Warsaw Pact Exercise Zapad-81 in East Germany in late 1981.
The 515th Fighter Aviation Regiment was disbanded at Tokol in August 1989. The 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was disbanded in October 1990, with aircraft and crews being withdrawn to Biaroza, Brest Oblast, in the Byelorussian SSR.[6][7]
Two regiments of the 36th Air Army were returned to the Soviet Union in April 1991. On 21 April the 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment moved back to Zherdevka, Tambov Oblast, in the Moscow Military District. The next day (22 April 1991) the 1st Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment was transferred back to the Soviet Union, being moved back to Lebyazhye in Volgograd Oblast.
The 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division was disbanded in June 1991.[7]
References
^State Defence Committee, Приказ No. 264 of 24.08.1943. Приказы Народного комиссара обороны СССР 1943—1945. // Коллектив авторов Сборник документов «Великая Отечественная война 1941—1945 гг.» / В. А. Золотарёв. — Moscow: Терра, 1997. — Т. 13 (2-3). — С. 415.
^ abPokrovsky; et al. (1956). List No. 6 of cavalry, tank, airborne divisions and directorates of artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, mortar, aviation and fighter divisions that were part of the Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. Vol. Appendix to the directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780 (Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff ed.). Moscow: Voenizdat. p. 77.
Kozhevnikov M.N. (1977). Command and Headquarters of the Air Force of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Москва: Наука. p. 288. Circulation 70,000.
Pokrovsky; et al. (1956). Перечень No. 4 управлений корпусов, входивших в состав Действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг. Vol. Приложение к директиве Генерального штаба 1956 г. No. 168780. Москва: Министерство обороны СССР. Военно-научное управление Генерального Штаба; Voenizdat. p. 151.
Pokrovsky; et al. (1956). Перечень No. 6 Cavalry, Tank, Airborne дивизий и управлений артиллерийских, зенитно-артиллерийских, миномётных, авиационных и истребительных дивизий, входивших в состав Действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг. Vol. Приложение к директиве Генерального штаба 1956 г. No. 168780. Москва: Министерство обороны СССР. Военно-научное управление Генерального Штаба; Воениздат. p. 77.
Pokrovsky; et al. (1960). Перечень No. 12 Aviation regiments of the Air Forces of the Red Army, входивших в состав Действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг. Vol. Приложение к директиве Генерального штаба от 18 января 1960 г. No. 170023. Moscow: Министерство обороны СССР. Военно-научное управление Генерального Штаба; Voenizdat. p. 96.
