Its second formation traces its origins to the formation of the 323rd Fighter Aviation Division in May 1943. In 1945 its headquarters was established at
Kluczewo Airfield, Poland. In 1945 it had three regiments, all equipped with Yak-9 fighters, the 149th, 269th, and 484th Fighter Aviation Regiments. It spent much of its service after the Second World War with the
4th Air Army in Poland. On the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland, the division headquarters moved in July 1992 to
Petrozavodsk in the
Karelian ASSR, becoming part of the
76th Air Army. The division was disbanded on 1 May 1998. ==References==