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16th Air Army

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The 16th Red Banner Air Army (16-я воздушная Краснознамённая армия) was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command. [1]

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Air army (Soviet Union)

An air army was a type of formation of the Soviet Air Forces from 1936 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

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Air Forces of the National People's Army

The Air Forces of the National People's Army (German: Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee – LSK) was the Air Force of East Germany.

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Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov

Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Беляко́в; – 28 November 1982) was a Soviet flight navigator who, together with command pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgy Baydukov, set a record for the longest uninterrupted flight in 1936 and made the first non-stop flight across the North Pole, flying from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington.

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Andrey Borovykh

Andrey Egorovich Borovykh (Андре́й Его́рович Боровы́х) (1921-1989) was a Soviet Air Force flying ace during World War II, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and recipient of several other awards.

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Battle of Halbe

The Battle of Halbe (Kessel von Halbe, Хальбский котёл, Halbe pocket) from April 24 – May 1, 1945 was a battle in which the German Ninth Army, under the command of General Theodor Busse, was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle for Berlin.

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Battle of Kursk order of battle

The Battle of Kursk order of battle is a list of the significant units that fought in the Battle of Kursk between July and August 1943.

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.

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Battle of the Dnieper

The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Buturlinovka (air base)

Buturlinovka is a military air base of the Russian Air Force in Buturlinovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

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Central Front

The Central Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Don Front

The Don Front was a front (military formation) of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.

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Group of Soviet Forces in Germany

The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1954–1988) (Группа советских войск в Германии, ГСВГ), also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (1945–1954) and the Western Group of Forces (1988–1994) were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.

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Ilyushin Il-10

The Ilyushin Il-10 (Cyrillic Илью́шин Ил-10, NATO reporting name: "Beast"Gunston 1995, p.108.) was a Soviet ground attack aircraft developed at the end of World War II by the Ilyushin construction bureau.

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Jüterbog Airfield

Jüterbog Airfield (also known as Altes Lager airfield) is an abandoned military air base located west of the town of Jüterbog, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Konstantin Vershinin

Chief marshal of the aviation Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin (Константин Андреевич Вершинин; 3 June 1900 – 30 December 1973) was commander of the Soviet Air Force from 1946 to 1949 and from 1957 to 1969.

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Kursk Vostochny Airport

Vostochny Airport (Аэропорт Восточный) is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia located 7 km east of Kursk.

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List of corps and divisions of the Russian Air Force

This is an incomplete list of corps and Aviation Divisions of the Russian Air Force and Russian Air Defence Force (PVO) active from 1992 to the present.

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List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (B)

The Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union.

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List of regiments of the Russian Air Force

The Russian Air Force, like the Soviet Air Forces before them, has the aviation regiment as its basic organisational unit.

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List of Soviet Air Force bases

This List of Soviet Air Force bases shows the state of the Soviet Air Force and Russian Air Force during the last decade of the Cold War to the mid-1990s.

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List of Soviet armies

An army, besides the generalized meanings of ‘a country's armed forces’ or its ‘land forces’, is a type of formation in militaries of various countries, including the Soviet Union.

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List of Soviet military sites in Germany

The List of Soviet military sites in Germany contains all military installations and units of the former Soviet Union on German territory.

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Lublin–Brest Offensive

The Lublin–Brest Offensive (Люблин‐Брестская наступательная операция, 18 July – 2 August 1944) was a part of the Operation Bagration strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the central‐eastern Poland.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-9, USAF/DoD designation: Type 1, NATO reporting name: Fargo) was the first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the years immediately after World War II.

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Moscow Air Defence District

The Order of Lenin Moscow Air Defence District was a formation of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and the Russian Air Defence Forces, which existed from 1954 to 1998, to fulfill the tasks of anti-aircraft Defense of administrative and economic facilities.

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Moscow Military District

The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration (Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Operation Kutuzov

Operation Kutuzov was the first of the two counteroffensives launched by the Red Army as part of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation.

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Order of battle for the battle in Berlin

This is the order of battle for German and the Soviet forces engaged in the battle in Berlin.

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Osovets Offensive

The Osovets Offensive (Осовецкая наступательная операция) was part of the third and final phase of Operation Bagration, the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944.

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Rechlin–Lärz Airfield

Rechlin–Lärz Airfield (German: Flugplatz Rechlin-Lärz) is an airfield in the village of Rechlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

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Ribnitz-Damgarten

Ribnitz-Damgarten is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, situated on Lake Ribnitz (Ribnitzer See).

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Sergei Rudenko (general)

Serhi Gnatovich Rudenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Гнатович Руденко, Russified: Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко;, Korop, Russian Empire - 10 July 1990, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet Marshal of the aviation.

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Soviet Air Forces

The Soviet Air Forces (r (VVS), literally "Military Air Forces") was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Air Forces Order of Battle 1 May 1945

Following is the organization of the Soviet Air Forces (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily) on May 1, 1945.

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Soviet order of battle for the Battle of Stalingrad

The Soviet order of battle for the Battle of Stalingrad details the major combat units that fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Special Purpose Command

The Special Purpose Command (Komandovaniye Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya) was a formation of the Russian Air Force, the strongest among the tactical aviation and anti-aircraft groupings.

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Sperenberg Airfield

Sperenberg Airfield is an abandoned military air base located near to the town of Sperenberg in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Third Battle of Kharkov

The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of Kharkov (or Kharkiv)Kharkov is the Russian language name of the city (Kharkiv the Ukrainian one); both Russian and Ukrainian were official languages in the Soviet Union (Source: & by Routledge) between 19 February and 15 March 1943.

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Voronezh Malshevo (air base)

Voronezh Malshevo (also Malshevo, Mal'shevo, Voronezh Southwest, Baltimor) is an air base in Russia located 7 km southwest of Voronezh.

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Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke

Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke (11 March 1913 – 23 March 1944) was a German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 162 enemy aircraft shot down in 732 combat missions.

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Yevgeny Shaposhnikov

Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (Евгений Иванович Шапошников; born 3 February 1942) is a Russian military leader and business figure, Marshal of Aviation (1991).

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105th Guards Mixed Aviation Division

The 105th Guards Borisov-Pomeranian Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Mixed Aviation Division is an aviation division of the Russian Air Force, based in Voronezh's Voronezh Malshevo air base.

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11th Composite Aviation Regiment

The 11th Composite Aviation Regiment is a reconnaissance/bomber aviation unit of the Russian Air Force.

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125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment

The 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment was one of the three Soviet women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova at the start of the Second World War.

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16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division

The 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division was an Aviation Division of the Soviet Air Forces, active from 1942 to 1998.

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1945 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1945.

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1951 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1951.

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2008 Russian military reform

Significant reforms of the Russian Armed Forces were announced in October 2008 under Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov, and major structural reorganisation began in 2009.

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240th Fighter Aviation Division

The 240th Fighter Aviation Division (240 IAD) was a fighter aircraft formation of the Soviet Air Forces during World War II.

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24th Air Army

The 24th Air Army was an Air army of the Soviet Air Forces, active from 1980, and probably inactivated in 1992.

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28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

28th Guards Leningrad Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment (28-и ГИАП) was an aviation regiment of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War, the Korean War, and became part of the Russian Air Force after 1991.

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2nd Air Army

The 2nd Air Army (2 VA) was a formation of the Aviation of the Red Army (Soviet Air Force) as part of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Second World War.

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3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

The 3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II and the Soviet Army during the early years of the Cold War.

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4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army

The 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army is an army of the Russian Air Force, part of the Southern Military District and headquartered in Rostov-on-Don.

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54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment ((54 GIAP); Military Unit Number 06931) was an aviation regiment of the Soviet Air Forces during World War II and the Cold War, which became part of the Soviet Air Defense Forces and the Russian Air Force.

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61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps

The 61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps was a corps of the Soviet Air Forces from 1949 to 1980.

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6th Assault Aviation Corps

The 6th Assault Aviation Corps was a ground attack formation of the Red Air Force in the Second World War.

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86th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 86th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Military Unit Number 06858; 86th Gv. (Guards) IAP) was an aviation regiment of the Soviet Air Forces, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the main formation of the Moldovan Air Force.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Air_Army

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