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137th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment


The 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Minsk Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Regiment ( 137th Guards IAP ) is a military unit of the Air Force of the Red Army , which took part in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War .

USSR Air Force Flag Guard for Template.PNG 137th Guards
fighter aircraft Minsk
Red banner
Order of Suvorov
regiment
AwardsOrder of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov III degree
Honorary Items"Minsk"
TroopsAir force
Type of armyfighter aircraft
Formation04/14/1944
Dissolution (transformation)07/12/1960
Predecessor160th Fighter Aviation Regiment
Battle way

The Great Patriotic War (1944 - 1945):

  • Belarusian operation
  • Vitebsk-Orsha operation
  • Minsk operation
  • Ε iauliai operation
  • Riga operation
  • Baltic operation
  • Memel operation
  • East Prussian operation
  • Berlin offensive operation
China's Air Defense (1951 - 1953)

Shelf Names

Over the entire period of its existence, the regiment changed its name several times:

  • 160th Fighter Aviation Regiment ;
  • 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment;
  • 137th Guards Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment;
  • 137th Minsk Guards Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment;
  • 137th Guards Minsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment;
  • 137th Guards Minsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Air Defense Fighter Regiment;
  • Military Unit (Field Mail) 36664.

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La-5 fighter

The 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was formed on April 14, 1944 by renaming the 160th Fighter Aviation Regiment as the Guards Regiment for the exemplary performance of combat missions and the courage and heroism shown on the basis of the Order of the NPO of the USSR [1] .

In the army

As part of the army [2] :

  • from June 10, 1944 to May 9, 1945,

Total 333 days

Regiment Commanders

  • Major , Lieutenant Colonel Yamanov Valerian Alexandrovich [3] , 01/03/1943 - 12/01/1945

As part of formations and associations

PeriodFront (district)armybodydivisionnote
11.24.19431st Baltic Front3rd air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 5
04/02/1944Moscow Military DistrictReserve of the Supreme Commercial Court1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Divisionlaunched for reformation, La-5
04/14/1944Moscow Military DistrictReserve of the Supreme Commercial Court1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Divisionthe regiment was renamed the Guards, La-5
06/10/19443rd Belorussian Front1st Air Army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 5
07/16/19441st Baltic Front3rd air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 5
10/12/1944Moscow Military District14th Spare Fighter Aviation RegimentTula , 25 pilots and regiment commander, retraining on La-7
12/15/19441st Baltic Front3rd air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 7
03.03.19452nd Baltic Front15th air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 7
04/07/19451st Belorussian Front16th air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 7
05/09/19451st Belorussian Front16th air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 7
06/10/1945Group of Soviet occupation forces in Germany16th air army1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionLa 7
09/28/1948North-West Air Defense District19th Air Defense Fighter Army32nd Air Defense Fighter Corps3rd Guards Fighter Aviation DivisionSmolensk , La-7
02/01/1951China328th Fighter Aviation DivisionMukden , MiG-15
1953Moscow Air Defense District328th Fighter Aviation Divisioncity ​​of Yelets, Lipetsk region, MiG-15
07/12/1960Moscow Air Defense District328th Fighter Aviation DivisionElets, Lipetsk Region, MiG-17 , MiG-19 , the regiment disbanded
 
Khimki, a monument to La-7

Participation in operations and battles

  • The Great Patriotic War (1944-1945):
    • The Belarusian operation - from June 23, 1944 to August 29, 1944.
    • Vitebsk-Orsha operation - from June 23, 1944 to June 28, 1944.
    • The Minsk operation - from June 29, 1944 to July 4, 1944.
    • Siauliai operation - from July 5, 1944 to July 31, 1944.
    • Riga operation - from September 14, 1944 to October 22, 1944.
    • Baltic operation - from September 14, 1944 to November 24, 1944.
    • Memel operation - from October 5, 1944 to October 22, 1944.
    • East Prussian operation - from January 13, 1945 to October 25, 1945.
    • Berlin offensive operation - from April 16, 1945 to May 8, 1945
  • China's Air Defense (1951-1953)

Honorary Names

For the difference in the battles for the seizure of the capital of the Soviet Byelorussian city of Minsk, the 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Red Banner Regiment on July 23, 1944 was given the honorary name "Minsk" [4]

Rewards

 
MiG-19
  • For exemplary fulfillment of command assignments in battles with the German invaders during the crossing of the Berezina River, for the seizure of the city of Borisov and the valor and courage shown at the same time, the 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR [5]
  • For exemplary fulfillment of the command assignments at the front of the fight against German invaders in breaking through the enemy’s defense northwest and southwest of Ε iauliai ( Shavli ) and the valor and courage shown at the same time, the 137th Minsk Guards Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Suvorov III degree " [6]

Acknowledgments from the Supreme Commander

  • For the mastery of the city of Lida [7]
  • For the mastery of the city of Jelgava ( Mitava ) [8]
  • For breaking the enemy’s defense northwest and southwest of the city of Ε iauliai [9]

Distinguished Regiment Warriors

  •   Silantyev Alexander Petrovich , deputy squadron commander of the 160th Fighter Aviation Regiment, senior lieutenant. By a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on December 17, 1941 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Combat Statistics

In total, during the years of World War II, the regiment [10] :

Missions completedAirplanes shot downDestroyed aircraft total
7627241288

Its losses [3] :

Lost aircraft, totalTotal Pilots Died
14366

Disbandment of the Regiment

The 137th Guards Fighter Aviation Minsk Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Air Defense Regiment was disbanded on July 12, 1960.

Armed aircraft

PeriodAircraft
1940 - 1941I-15 , I-153
1941 - 1942LaGG-3
1942 - 1944La 5
1944 - 1950La 7
1950 - 1954MiG-15
1954 - 1960MiG-17
1957 - 1960MiG-19

Base

  • Eggersdorf , Germany , 5.45 - 7.45
  • Guestrow , Germany , 7.45 - 1946
  • Witstock , Germany , 8.46 - 1947
  • Falkenberg , Germany , 1947 - 9.48
  • Smolensk , 9.48 - 2.51
  • Mukden , China , 2.51 - 1953
  • Yelets , Lipetsk Region , 1953 - 9.60

Notes

  1. ↑ Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 55 of 04/14/1944
  2. ↑ Collective 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.
  3. ↑ 1 2 Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 230. - 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
  4. ↑ Order of NPO No. 0203 of July 23, 1944 on the basis of the order of the Supreme High Command No. 128 of July 3, 1944
  5. ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 10, 1944
  6. ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 31, 1944
  7. ↑ Supreme Commander. Order No. 133 of July 9, 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. 205-206. - 598 p.
  8. ↑ Supreme Commander. Order No. 159 of July 31, 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. 205-206. - 598 p.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 229, 936. - 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .

Literature

  • B. Growl , M. Morozov. Guard aviation divisions, corps, squadrons 1941-45 // World of Aviation: Aviation-historical journal, technical review .. - M. , 2003. - Issue. 32 . - No. 3 . - S. 25 - 28 . Archived March 5, 2016.
  • B. Growl , M. Morozov. Guard aviation divisions, corps, squadrons 1941-45 // World of Aviation: Aviation-historical journal, technical review .. - M. , 2003. - Issue. 31 . - No. 2 . - S. 25 - 31 . Archived on April 22, 2016.
  • 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.
  • Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 227. - 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
  • Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2 .-- 992 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .

Links

  1. List of operations of the armed forces of the USSR in World War II
  2. Heroes of World War II
  3. Air force
  4. World War II Aviators
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=137th_guard_fighter_aviation_ regiment&oldid = 97157131


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