The 1st Air and Air Defence Command being transformed into the 6th Air Army, the 2nd as the 14th Air Army, the 3rd as the 11th Air Army and the 4th as the 4th Air Army It's a new formation which shows that the general staff feels this area is important enough that it needed to be reinforced.
There's also one mid-range AA brigade armed with a PUK anti-aircraft missile battery. With the creation of the Romanian Front in December 1916, the staff was transferred to the Danube Army in Romania, which was renamed the 6th Army. In 2014–2015 the brigade took part in War in Donbas. Near St. Petersburg, the 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, which is on permanent stand-by. That fluctuates seasonally depending on the number of conscripts. In August, its anti-aircraft artillery divisions conducted an exercise in which they practiced repelling a large enemy air raid. For example, the elite paratrooper division has a rapid response battalion that has always been at 12-hour readiness. 147th Independent Helicopter Squadron of Electronic Warfare - HQ at Pushkin - Mi-8PPA; 332nd Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle Control - HQ at Pribylovo - Mi-8, 85th Independent Helicopter Squadron - HQ at, 1080th Mixed Aviation Base (смешанная авиационная база) —, 396th Centre for Special and Physical Preparations — St Petersburg, 6964th Guards Vitula Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Air Base (with. A Scenario From the Cold War, Kharitonov FM (July 1942 - May 1943), Major-General, with December 1942, Lieutenant-General, Shlemin Ivan T. (May 1943 - May 1944), Lieutenant-General. [2], The region was an air defence region of the 2nd category, and in the spring of 1954 became 1st category, tasked with providing air defense for Leningrad and the Leningrad Military District. 09-08-2018 00:11:06 ZULU, Everything You Wanted to Know About Russian Troop Locations (But Were Afraid to Ask), How Putin Dismembers NATO Without Firing A Shot. Kochetkov said the flights involve dozens of Mi-28N Night Hunter and Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters as well as Mi-8MTV-5 and Mi-26T combat transport helicopters. There are two call-ups a year in Russia. 15th ck ( 172nd Rifle Division , 267th Rifle Division , 350th Rifle Division ); 127th Rifle Division , 160th Rifle Division , 219 Rifle Division , 270th Rifle Division , 309th Rifle Division ; 106th Rifle Brigade , 1st iptabr, 2nd iptabr, 6th opbr; Artillery RGC - 8th hell , 875 th rang, 1109-th popes, 462 th and 1176-iptap th, 45 th, 87 th and 97 th Guards. The Pskov Amphibious Landing Division is about as big as the peacetime ranks of the Estonian Defense Forces. The number of Russian troop units and troop strength in the former Leningrad MD has changed markedly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With a range of up to 250 km, when placed in this position, they could be used systems to close all of Estonian airspace without leaving the Russian Federation borders, and target any plane in Estonian airspace. After the formation of the defending line on the left bank of the Dnieper River north-west of the Dnipropetrovsk. In 2009, 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was transferred from Karelia to the Besovets airbase, where it was merged with the 159th and 177th Fighter Regiment airfields Besovets and Lodeynoye Pole, respectively. Perhaps most importantly is the concentration around Pskov, where the 76th Guards Air Assault Division is based. That is a recent development, and it of course, raises the question of why there is a need for such a base, especially given its geographic location. [17], On 1 August 2015 the army was reformed from the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command as the 6th Leningrad Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[18]. The Russian Sixth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war. It includes the 45 th , 99 th , 141 th , 160 th , 174 th , 212 th , 219 th and 309 th Infantry Division, 141st Infantry Brigade, a number of artillery and other units and units . The airbase is intended for such military helicopters as Ka-52, Mi-34, Mi-28 and others. Originally it consisted of 169-I , 226 th , 230 th , 255th , 273rd , 275th Infantry Division, 26 th and 28 th Cavalry Division, 8th Armored Division, 44th Fighter Air Division, the number of artillery, engineering, and other parts.