The 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Leningrad Order of the Kutuzov Regiment (abbr. 28th Guards Iap) - a military unit of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the USSR, which took part in the hostilities of the Soviet-Finnish , Great Patriotic and Korean Wars , which became part of the Air Force of the Russian Federation .
 28th Guardsfighter aviation Leningrad Order of Kutuzov regiment | |
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| Awards |  |
| Honorary titles | "Leningrad" |
| Troops |  →  |
| Type of army | Air Force Air defense Air defense |
| Formation | 11/22/1942 |
| Disbanding (transformation) | 09.2009 |
| Predecessor | 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment |
| Fighting way | |
Soviet-Finnish War
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Content
History
The regiment was formed in December 1939 as the 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment . He took part in the Soviet-Finnish war in 1939-1940. In November 1942, by order of the NKO, the regiment was renamed the 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. In 1950, the regiment took part in the war in North Korea.
I-153 aircraft
MiG-3 aircraft
Aircraft Regiment P-39 Air Cobra
Command
Regiment commanders [1] :
- Colonel Katichev Kuzma Alexandrovich, January 1940
- Major Tsvetkov, October 1940
- Black captain, April 1941
- Major S.I. Mironov (August 1941 - October 1942)
- Black captain (November 1941) [2]
- Guard lieutenant colonel Rodionov, Oleg Markovich (from October 1942)
- guard major A.S. Smirnov
- Guard Lieutenant Colonel Boris D. Melekhin (since 09/27/1944 [3] )
- Guard lieutenant colonel Sapozhnikov Alexey Yakovlevich, December 1949
- Guard Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Kolyadin , February 1952
- Guard Major Selivanov Victor G., December 1953
- Guards Lieutenant Colonel Bochkov Boris Viktorovich , August 1956
- Guard Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Mitrofanovich Zaplavnev, December 1958
- Colonel Bokach Boris Vasilyevich Guard, December 1960
- Colonel Grishin Alexander Sergeevich Guard, December 1967
- Guard Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Andreevich Gorchakov, August 1975
- Colonel Bobrikov Victor Mikhailovich Guard, July 1979
- Colonel Gritsik Alexander Matveyevich Guard, January 1984
- Colonel Gorbatov Vasily Vasilyevich Guard, August 1988
- Colonel Melnikov Alexander Vladimirovich Guard, May 1992
Awards
The 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Leningrad Regiment for exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with German invaders in breaking through enemy defenses south-east of the city of Riga and showing valor and courage at that by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 22, 1944, was awarded the Order of Kutuzov, III degree.
Names of Honor
The 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment for shown samples of courage and heroism in the fight against the fascist invaders and in order to further consolidate the memory of the heroic exploits of the Stalin falcons by the order of the NGO assigned the honorary name " Leningrad " [4] .
Acknowledgments from the Supreme Commander
- For the capture of the city of Polotsk [5]
- For the breakthrough of enemy defenses northwest and southwest of the city of Siauliai [6]
- For the capture of the city and the fortress Königsberg [7]
Heroes of the Soviet Union
- Guard Major Smirnov Alexey Semenovich , squadron commander, on February 23, 1945, was awarded the title of twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star № 4182
- Guard Senior Lieutenant Bykovets Leonid Alexandrovich , Deputy Squadron Commander, on August 18, 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star # 7936
- Guard captain Avdeev Alexander Fedorovich (February 10, 1943, posthumously)
- Guards Major Makarenko Nikolai Fedorovich (February 10, 1943)
- Guard captain Kislyakov Anatoly Vasilyevich , assistant regiment commander, on August 18, 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star # 7945
- Guard captain Mazurin Fedor Makarovich , deputy commander of the squadron, on August 18, 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star № 7953
- Guards Senior Lieutenant Pasko Nikolai Fedorovich , deputy commander of the squadron, on August 18, 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star number 8892
Combat casualties
During the Great Patriotic War, the regiment lost: 64 pilots and 94 aircraft. In the War in Korea from June 22, 1950 to October 29, 1951 - 3 aircraft were lost.
Results of the regiment's combat activities
Total for the years of World War II regiment [8] :
| Completed sorties | Shot down aircraft in the air | Destroyed aircraft total |
|---|---|---|
| 14303 | 406 | 511 |
Their losses [8] :
| Lost planes, total | Killed pilots just |
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| 127 | 64 |
Total during the war in Korea [8] :
| Completed combat missions | Held air battles | Shot down by UN force aircraft | From them: bombers | From them: fighters and attack aircraft | Shot down by UN aircraft allegedly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| more than 700 | over 30 | 36 | 13 | 23 | eleven |
Their losses [8] :
| Lost airplanes, total | All pilots died (non-combat loss) |
|---|---|
| four | 3 |
Armament
- Initially, the regiment was equipped with fighters I-153 and MiG-3 .
- In 1942, the regiment was reequipped with the P-39 Aero Cobra (until August 1948).
- In June 1946, the regiment retrained to the new aircraft R-63 "Kingkobra" , but transferred them to the 57th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in the same month.
- From June 1947, the regiment retrained to the new Yak-15 aircraft, which operated until August 1948. The aircraft were transferred to the 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment .
- MiG-9 , from 10.1947 to 11.1949. airplanes transferred in November 1949 to the 328th air defense unit
- MiG-15 , from 11.1949 to 1954
- MiG-17 P / PF , from 1954 to 1968 (30 MiG-17 transferred to Egypt in 1967 to replace losses in the six-day war)
- MiG-19sv , from 1957 to 1968 (1st and 2nd AE)
- Su-15 , from 1968 to 1982.
- MiG-23P , from 1982 to March 1994 (transferred to the storage base in March 1994)
- MiG-29 , from April 1994 to the present (from the 733rd and 33rd IAP)
Basing
- Donskoe, Kaliningrad region , 05.1945 - 05/13/1947
- Kaliningrad-Chkalovsk, Kaliningrad region , 05/13/1947 - 09/09/1948
- Migalovo, Kalinin region , 09/19/1948 - 06/1950
- Yangdong, China 06/22/1950 - 10/29/1951
- Klin , Moscow region , 11.1951 - 09.1956
- Andreapol , Kalinin / Tver region, 09.1956 - 02.09.1994
- Monchegorsk , Murmansk region , 09/08/1994 - 03.1998
- Andreapol , Tver region , 03.1998 - present
Notes
- ↑ A.V. Rachee, A.B. Panin, N.I. Shuleyko. Winged Guard Sons. Pages of the military history of the Guards Fighter Aviation of the Leningrad Order of Kutuzov III degree of the regiment / Racheev AV - Andreapol, 2005. - 52 p.
- ↑ Award sheet
- ↑ Award sheet
- ↑ Order of the Noncommercial Organization of the USSR № 207 of May 4, 1943
- Supreme Commander. Order No. 129 of July 4, 1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / team of authors. - USSR Ministry of Defense. Institute of Military History, USSR Ministry of Defense. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975. - p. 171-172. - 598 s.
- Supreme Commander. Order No. 193 of 10/08/1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / team of authors. - USSR Ministry of Defense. Institute of Military History, USSR Ministry of Defense. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975. - p. 243-245. - 598 s.
- Supreme Commander. Order No. 333 of April 9, 1945 // Orders of the Supreme Commander during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / team of authors. - USSR Ministry of Defense. Institute of Military History, USSR Ministry of Defense. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - Moscow: Military Publishing, 1975. - P. 450–452. - 598 s.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Anokhin V. A., Bykov M. Yu. All Stalin's fighter regiments. The first full encyclopedia. - A popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-Press, 2014. - p. 73 - 74. - 944 p. - 1500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
Literature
- B. Snarling , M. Morozov. Guards aviation divisions, corps, squadron of 1941-45 // World of Aviation: Aviation-historical magazine, technical review .. - M. , 2003. - Vol. 32 . - № 3 . - pp . 25-28 . Archived March 5, 2016.
- B. Snarling , M. Morozov. Guards aviation divisions, corps, squadron of 1941-45 // World of Aviation: Aviation-historical magazine, technical review .. - M. , 2003. - Vol. 31 . - № 2 . - p . 25-31 . Archived April 22, 2016.
- M.L. Dudarenko , Yu.G. Perechnev , V.T. Eliseev, and others. The liberation of cities: A guide to the liberation of cities in the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 / ed. ed. Army General S. P. Ivanov. - Institute of Military History of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Central Archive of the USSR Ministry of Defense. - M: Military Publishing, 1985. - 598 p. - (Reference). - 50 000 copies
- Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All Stalin's fighter regiments. The first full encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-Press, 2014. - P. 70-75. - 944 s. - 1500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
- A.V. Rachee, A.B. Panin, N.I. Shuleyko. Winged Guard Sons. Pages of the military history of the Guards Fighter Aviation of the Leningrad Order of Kutuzov III degree of the regiment / Racheev AV - Andreapol, 2005. - 52 p.
Links
- 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Leningradsky Kutuzov Order, 3rd class, regiment
- Photos of pilots and combat aircraft 28 giap
- Heroes of World War II
- Air Force combat composition
- The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
- World War II Aviators
- "The liberation of cities: a guide to the liberation of cities during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" / M.L. Dudarenko, Yu.G. Perechnev, V.T. Eliseev, and others. - M .: Voenizdat, 1985. - 598 p. Electronic version