11th Fighter Aviation Corps

11th Königsberg Fighter Aviation Corps
11th Königsberg Fighter Aviation Corps
Honorary Items	Königsberg
Troops	Air force
Type of army	fighter aircraft
Formation	February 01, 1944
Dissolution (transformation)	11/05/1955 (01/10/1949)
Successor	54th Königsberg Fighter Aviation Corps
Battle way
	The Great Patriotic War (1944 - 1945): Belarusian operation "Bagration"; Vitebsk-Orsha operation; Polotsk operation; Riga operation; Memel operation; East Prussian operation; Koenigsberg operation; Zemland operation;

The 11th Königsberg Fighter Aviation Corps ( 11th IAC ) - a connection of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the Red Army, which took part in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War

Content

Corpus names

11th Fighter Aviation Corps;
11th Königsberg Fighter Aviation Corps;
54th Fighter Aircraft Koenigsberg Corps .

Creating a Corps

The 11th Fighter Aviation Corps was formed by order of the USSR NPO in January 1944 by giving it units and formations of the 5th Guards and 190th Fighter Aviation Divisions.

Case Conversion

By the Directive of the General Staff of January 10, 1949, the 11th Konigsberg Fighter Aviation Corps was renamed the 54th Konigsberg Fighter Aviation Corps ^[1]

Corps

In connection with the change in military doctrine, the 54th Fighter Aviation Konigsberg Corps on November 5, 1955 was disbanded ^[2] as part of the 30th Air Army .

In the army

As part of the army:

from June 3, 1944 to May 9, 1945 ^[3] , a total of 341 days

Corps Commander

Major General of Aviation (until February 4, 1944 - Colonel ) Ivanov Georgy Aleksandrovich ^[4] , period of office: from January 1944 to April 1946
Major General of Aviation Machin Mikhail Grigorievich ^[5] , period of office: from April 1946 to May 1947
Major General Aviation Davidkov Viktor Iosifovich ^[6] , period of office: from August 1947 to January 1950
Major General of Aviation Shinkarenko, Fedor Ivanovich ^[7] , period of office: from January 1950 to September 1951

As part of associations

Union	Period
6th Air Army of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command	02/01/1944 - 02/25/1944
14th Air Force Reserve Army	02/25/1944 - 04/26/1944
High Command Reserve	04/26/1944 - 06/03/1944
3rd Air Army of the 1st Baltic Front	06/03/1944 - 02/25/1945
3rd Air Army of the Zemland Group of Forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front	02/25/1945 - 05/05/1945
15th Air Army of the Leningrad Front	05/05/1945 - 05/09/1945
15th Air Army Special Military District ( East Prussia )	12/15/1945 - 04/01/1946
15th Air Army of the Baltic Military District	04/01/1946 - 01/10/1949
30th Air Army of the Baltic Military District	from 01/10/1949
30th Air Army of the Baltic Military District	disbanded on 11/05/1955

Units, units, and individual units of the corps

5th Guards Valdai Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Division ^[8] ^[9]
- 28th Guards Leningrad Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation
- 68th Klaipeda Guards Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment
- 72nd Guards of Polotsk Order of the Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment
190th Polotsk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Division (in June 1945 as a whole it became part of the 12th Air Army of the Trans-Baikal Front ) ^[8] ^[9]
- 17th Fighter Order of the Suvorov Aviation Regiment
- 494th Fighter Order of the Suvorov Aviation Regiment
- 821st Fighter Order of the Suvorov Aviation Regiment
1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division (from January 25, 1946 to November 05, 1955)
- 53rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (from January 25, 1946 to November 05, 1955)
- 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (from January 25, 1946 to November 05, 1955)
- 55th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (from January 25, 1946 to March 15, 1947), disbanded
60th Fighter Aviation Division (1950) (from September 1, 1952 to May 17, 1953, transferred to the Baltic Fleet Air Force along with regiments):
- 211st Fighter Aviation Regiment (MiG-15);
- 938th Fighter Aviation Regiment (MiG-15);
- 938th Fighter Aviation Regiment (MiG-15);
453rd Separate Aviation Communications Squadron ^[3]
203rd Separate Communications Company ^[3]
2927th Military Post Station ^[3]

Participation in operations and battles

Airplane body P-39 Aerocobra

The Belarusian operation "Bagration" ^[4] - from June 23, 1944 to August 29, 1944.
Vitebsk-Orsha operation - from June 23, 1944 to June 28, 1944.
Polotsk operation - from June 29, 1944 to July 4, 1944.
Riga operation - from September 14, 1944 to October 22, 1944.
Memel operation - from October 5, 1944 to October 22, 1944.
East Prussian operation ^[4] - from January 13, 1945 to April 25, 1945.
Koenigsberg operation ^[4] - from April 6, 1945 to April 9, 1945.
The Zemland operation ^[4] - from April 13, 1945 to April 25, 1945.

Honorary Names

The 11th Fighter Aviation Corps was given the honorary name “Königsberg” ^[10]
The 190th Fighter Aviation Division was given the honorary name Polotsk ^[11]
The 68th Guards Order of Kutuzov, 3rd class, fighter aviation regiment was given the honorary name "Klaipeda" ^[12]
The 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was given the honorary name Polotsky ^[11]

Rewards

Airplane body P-39 Bell Aerocobra

The 5th Guards Valdai Fighter Aviation Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
The 5th Guards Valdai Fighter Aviation Division was awarded the Order of Kutuzov II Degree by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
The 190th Polotsk fighter aviation division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
The 190th Polotsk Red Banner Fighter Aviation Division was awarded the Order of Kutuzov of the 3rd Degree by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
The 17th Fighter Aviation Regiment n Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 5, 1945 was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 3rd Class
The 28th Guards Leningrad Fighter Aviation Regiment by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 22, 1944 was awarded the Order of Kutuzov, 3rd Degree
The 68th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 22, 1944 was awarded the Order of Kutuzov, 3rd Degree
The 72nd Guards Polotsk Fighter Aviation Regiment by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 5, 1945 was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 3rd Degree
494th Fighter Aviation Regiment By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 31, 1944, was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 3rd Degree
The 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of Suvorov of the 3rd Degree by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 31, 1944

Acknowledgments from the Supreme Commander

For the mastery of the city of Polotsk ^[13]
For breaking the enemy’s defense northwest and southwest of the city of Šiauliai ^[14]
For the mastery of the city and the Koenigsberg Fortress ^[15]

Heroes of the Soviet Union

Ivanov Georgy Aleksandrovich , Major General of Aviation, commander of the 11th fighter aviation corps of the 3rd Air Army on April 19, 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star No. 4188

Notes

↑ General Staff Directive of January 10, 1949
↑ Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 108. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ List No. 4 of the corps administrations that were part of the Army in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1956 year.
↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ Collective of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 382-383. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .
↑ Collective of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 397-399. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .
↑ * Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 510-513. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .
↑ * Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - S. 937. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .
↑ ¹ ² Combat composition of the Soviet army. Part IV (January - December 1944). Moscow. Military publishing house. 1988 - 376 p.
↑ ¹ ² Combat composition of the Soviet army. Part V. (January - September 1945). Moscow. Military publishing house. 1990 - 216 p.
↑ Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 084 of May 17, 1945 on the basis of the Order of the Supreme High Command No. 333 of April 9, 1945
↑ ¹ ² Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 0204 of July 23, 1944 on the basis of the Order of the Higher Military Commission No. 129 of July 4, 1944
↑ Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 056 of April 5, 1945 on the basis of the Order of the Higher Military Commission No. 262 of January 28, 1945
↑ Supreme Commander. Order No. 129 of 07/04/1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 171-172. - 598 p.
↑ Supreme Commander. Order No. 193 of 10/08/1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 243-245. - 598 p.
↑ Supreme Commander. Order No. 333 of 04/09/1945 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 450–452. - 598 p.

Literature

Team of authors. List No. 4 of the departments of the corps that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1956. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780. - 151 p.
Team of authors. List No. 6 of the cavalry, tank, airborne divisions and directorates of artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, mortar, aviation and fighter divisions that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1956. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780. - 77 p.
Team of authors. List No. 12 of the aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960 No. 170023. - 96 p.
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Team of authors. The combat structure of the Soviet Army. Part V. (January - September 1945) / M.A. Gareev. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Historical and Archival Division of the General Staff. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1990. - 216 p.
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Links

[1] General Staff Directive of January 10, 1949

[2] Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 108. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .

[Per-3] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ List No. 4 of the corps administrations that were part of the Army in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1956 year.

[KK-4] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ Collective of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 382-383. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .

[5] Collective of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 397-399. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .

[6] * Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 510-513. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .

[7] * Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - S. 937. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .

[BC44-8] ¹ ² Combat composition of the Soviet army. Part IV (January - December 1944). Moscow. Military publishing house. 1988 - 376 p.

[BC45-9] ¹ ² Combat composition of the Soviet army. Part V. (January - September 1945). Moscow. Military publishing house. 1990 - 216 p.

[10] Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 084 of May 17, 1945 on the basis of the Order of the Supreme High Command No. 333 of April 9, 1945

[autogenerated1-11] ¹ ² Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 0204 of July 23, 1944 on the basis of the Order of the Higher Military Commission No. 129 of July 4, 1944

[12] Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 056 of April 5, 1945 on the basis of the Order of the Higher Military Commission No. 262 of January 28, 1945

[13] Supreme Commander. Order No. 129 of 07/04/1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 171-172. - 598 p.

[14] Supreme Commander. Order No. 193 of 10/08/1944 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 243-245. - 598 p.

[15] Supreme Commander. Order No. 333 of 04/09/1945 // Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection / Collective of authors. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. - M .: Military Publishing, 1975 .-- S. 450–452. - 598 p.