Guards Bomber • 1st Guards Kirovograd Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bomber Aviation Division – formed 18 March 1943 from 263rd Bomber Aviation Division • 2nd Guards Stalingrad Red Banner Night Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 March 1943 from 272nd Night Bomber Aviation Division, became 15th Guards Assault Aviation Division 7 September 1944 • 2nd Guards Sevastopol-Berlin Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 March 1943 from the 17th Long-range Aviation Division, converted to bomber aviation division 26 December 1944, fought at Konigsberg and Berlin •
3rd Guards Smolensk Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Bomber Aviation Division – formed 3 September 1943 from the 204th Bomber Aviation Division, fought at Second Smolensk, Operation Bagration, Vitebsk-Orsha, Minsk, Vilnius, Siauliai, Memel, East Prussian, Konigsberg • 4th Guards Borisov Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division – formed 3 September 1943 from 223rd Bomber Aviation Division, fought at Operation Bagration, Vitebsk-Orsha, Minsk, Riga, Baltic, Memel, East Prussian, Konigsberg • 5th Guards Orsha Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Bomber Aviation Division – formed 3 September 1943 from 285th Bomber Aviation Division, fought at Operation Bagration, Minsk, Riga, Baltic, Memel, East Prussian, Konigsberg •
6th Guards Taganrog Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Bomber Aviation Division – formed 23 October 1943 from 270th Bomber Aviation Division, fought at Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Crimean Offensive, Operation Bagration, Vitebsk-Orsha, Minsk, Vilnius, East Prussian, Konigsberg • 7th Guards Sevastopol-Berlin Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 by renaming 7th Guards Long Range Aviation Division, fought at Budapest, East Pomeranian, Upper Silesian, Konigsberg, Berlin • 8th Guards Cherkassy Red Banner Order of Suvorov Bomber Aviation Division – formed 5 February 1944 from 293rd Bomber Aviation Division • 9th Guards Stalingrad-Rechitsa Red Banner Order of Suvorov Night Bomber Aviation Division – formed 19 August 1944 from 271st Night Bomber Aviation Division, fought at Vistula-Oder Offensive • 11th Guards Orel-Berlin Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 1st Guards Long-range Aviation Division • 13th Guards Dniepropetrovsk-Budapest Order of Suvorov Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 3rd Guards Long-range Aviation Division • 14th Guards Bryansk-Berlin Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 4th Guards Long-range Aviation Division • 15th Guards Gomel Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 5th Guards Long-range Aviation Division • 16th Guards Stalingrad Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 6th Guards Long-range Aviation Division • 18th Guards Orel-Budapest Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 8th Guards Long-range Aviation Division •
22nd Guards Donbass Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division – formed 26 December 1944 from 9th Guards Long-range Aviation Division, fought at Berlin
Guards Fighter • 1st Guards Fighter Stalingrad-Berlin Red Banner Aviation Division – Activated 5.42 as the 220th Fighter Aviation Division. 4 February 1943 renamed 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division. • 2nd Guards Fighter Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defence Division (PVO) – Activated 11.41 as 102nd Fighter Aviation Division PVO, redesignated 2nd Guards Fighter Aviation Division PVO 3.43; fought in the
Kerch–Eltigen Operation,
Crimean Offensive, Romania • 3rd Guards Fighter Bryansk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Air Division – Formed 18 March 1943 from 210th Fighter Aviation Division, As 9 Gds IAD, fought well using U.S.
P-39 Airacobras. Fought as part of
4th Air Army. • 10th Guards Fighter Stalingrad Red Banner Order of Suvorov Air Division – formed 24 August 1943 from 201st Fighter Aviation Division, fought at Kursk, Belgorod-Kharkov, Donbass Strategic, Dnieper, Kiev, Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Odessa, Lvov-Sandomierz, Jassy-Kishinev, Dukla Pass, Prague •
11th Guards Dnipropetrovsk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Air Division – Activated 5.42 as the 207th Mixed Aviation Division, but a few days later (20.5.42) renamed 207th Fighter Aviation Division. 24.8.43 renamed 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division. 10.1.49 renamed 195th Guards Fighter Aviation Division; April 1968 renamed back to 11 GvIAD.
Southern Group of Forces/36th Air Army 1956–1991. • 12th Guards Fighter Znamenskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Air Division – Activated 5 February 1944 from 203rd Fighter Aviation Division, fought at the
Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket, Uman-Botosani, Lvov-Sandomierz, Dukla Pass, Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague; with 2nd Fighter Aviation Corps 5.45; disbanded 1947 • 13th Guards Fighter Poltava-Alexandriyskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Air Division – Activated 2 July 1944 from 294th Fighter Aviation Division, fought in Jassy-Kishinev, Belgrade, Debrecen, Budapest, Spring Awakening,
Bratislava-Brno, Prague • 14th Guards Fighter Kirovograd-Budapest Red Banner Order of Suvorov Aviation Division – Activated 2 July 1944 from 302nd Fighter Aviation Division, fought in Jassy-Kishinev, Belgrade, Debrecen, Budapest, Spring Awakening,
Bratislava-Brno, Prague • 15th Guards Stalingrad Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Fighter Aviation Division – Activated 19 August 1944 from 235th Fighter Aviation Division, fought in Jassy-Kishinev, Dukla Pass, Prague •
16th Guards Svirskaya Red Banner Fighter Aviation Division. Activated 11.42 as the 258th Fighter Aviation Division. 27.2.43 renamed 258th Mixed Aviation Division. 24.8.43 renamed 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division. 11.11.44 renamed 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division. Comprised 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, and 152nd Fighter Aviation Regiment in May 1945. Moved to
Damgarten,
DDR, in October 1953 and remained as part of
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany until 30 October 1993. On that date it was moved to
Millerovo, in the
North Caucasus Military District and became part of the
4th Air Army. • 22nd Guards Kirovograd Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Division – formed 27 October 1944 from 205th Fighter Aviation Division, fought at Dukla Pass, Vistula-Oder, Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian, Breslau, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague • 23rd Guards Cherkassy Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Fighter Aviation Division – formed 27 October 1944 from 304th Fighter Aviation Division, fought at Dukla Pass, Vistula-oder, Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague
Guards Assault •
1st Guards Stalingrad Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Assault Aviation Division – formed 18 March 1943 from 226th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Donbass Strategic Offensive, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Crimea, Operation Bagration, Vitebsk-Orsha, Minsk, Vilnius, East Prussian, Koenigsberg, East Pomeranian Offensive • 2nd Guards Chernigov-Rechitskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Assault Aviation Division – formed 18 March 1943 from 228th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Kursk, Operation Kutuzov, Operation Bagration, Berlin • 3rd Guards Valdai-Kovel Red Banner Order of Suvorov Assault Aviation Division – formed 18 March 1943 from the 243rd Assault Aviation Division, fought at Operation Bagration, Lublin-Brest, Vistula-Oder, East Pomeranian, Berlin • 4th Guards Kiev Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Assault Aviation Division – formed 1 May 1943 from 212th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Belgorod-Kharkov, Second Kiev, Zhitomir-Berdichev, Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Lvov-Sandomierz, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava-Brno, Prague • 5th Guards Zaporizhia Red Banner Order of Suvorov Assault Aviation Division – formed 1 May 1943 from the 267th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Kursk, Belgorod-Kharkov, Donbass Strategic Offensive, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Lvov-Sandomierz, Vistula-Oder, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague • 6th Guards Zaporizhia Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Assault Aviation Division – formed 24 August 1943 from the 290th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Donbass, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Odessa, Lvov-Sandomierz, Vistula-Oder, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague • 7th Guards Debrecen Red Banner Assault Aviation Division – formed 3 September 1943 from 232nd Assault Aviation Division, fought at Second Smolensk, Jassy-Kishinev, Debrecen, Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Bratislava-Brno • 8th Guards Poltava Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Assault Aviation Division – formed 5 February 1944 from the 266th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Uman-Botosani, Lvov-Sandomierz, Dukla Pass, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague • 9th Guards Krasnogradsky Red Banner Order of Suvorov Assault Aviation Division – formed 5 February 1944 from 292nd Assault Aviation Division, fought at Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Uman-Botosani, Lvov-Sandomierz, Dukla Pass, Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin, Prague • 10th Guards Voronezh-Kiev Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Assault Aviation Division – formed 5 February 1944 from 291st Assault Aviation Division, fought at Lvov-Sandomierz, Jassy-Kishinev, Belgrade • 11th Guards Nezhinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Assault Aviation Division – formed 19 August 1944 from the 299th Assault Aviation Division, fought at Operation Bagration, East Pomeranian Offensive, Berlin Offensive • 12th Guards Roslavl Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Assault Aviation Division – formed 27 October 1944 from the 231st Assault Aviation Division, fought at Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Bratislava-Brno • 15th Guards Stalingrad Red Banner Assault Aviation Division – formed 7 September 1944 from the 2nd Guards Stalingrad Red Banner Night Bomber Division, fought in Prague Offensive
Other Guards • 1st Guards Svir Red Banner Mixed Aviation Division – formed 24 August 1943 from 258th Mixed Aviation Division, fought at Svir-Petrozavodsk and Petsamo-Kirkenes, became 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division 11 November 1944 • 10th Guards Transport Aviation Division GVF • 21st Guards Port Arthur Transport Aviation Division ==Aviation divisions formed post-war==