4th Spare Fighter Aviation Regiment

• 161st reserve aviation regiment
• 4th Spare Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 4th reserve fighter aviation regiment was formed from July 3 to July 8, 1941 in the Oryol Military District in Kursk on the basis of the 161st reserve aviation regiment consisting of 5 training squadrons.

The 4th reserve fighter aviation regiment trained marching regiments and individual crews on the MiG-3 , LaGG-3 , La-5 and Yak planes . In the initial period of the war he specialized in the formation and retraining of units armed with MiG-3 fighters. But these planes themselves on July 07, 1941 there were only three. Besides them, the regiment had 3 training Yak-7UTI , as well as fighters I-16 . In early September 1941, the regiment's aircraft fleet was replenished with up to 7 units of Yak-7 aircraft and 16 MiG-3 aircraft. The main replenishment was due to the repair of faulty aircraft, departing to the rear for the reformation and retraining of aviation regiments.

As part of the army ^[1] :

• from October 17, 1941 to December 14, 194! of the year;
• from April 1, 1942 to April 11, 1942;
• from July 8, 1942 to February 7, 1943.

The 4th reserve fighter aviation regiment was disbanded on January 15, 1946 in accordance with the Directive of the General Staff of the Air Force ^[2]

The process of retraining flight crews was typical: a regiment was withdrawn from the front that lost a large number of flight crews, it was replenished to full-time standards, pilots were retrained for a new material part. The regiment received new aircraft and again went to the front. Thus, the reserve regiment distributed aircraft coming from factories and repair bases.

In order to gain combat experience, the command and instructors of the reserve aviation regiments were sent to the aviation regiments of the army.

•   Afonin Vasily Maksimovich , retired lieutenant colonel, regiment link commander in 1941-1942. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation by the Decree of the President of Russia of May 2, 1996. Medal number 267. Posthumous.
•   Ges Grigory Ivanovich , a major, pilot-instructor of the regiment from 1943 to October 1944, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 10, 1951 for courage and heroism shown during the performance of military duty during the Korean War , with the award of the order Lenin and the Gold Star Medal (No. 10871).
•   Subbotin Serafim Pavlovich , in the years 1943-1946 served in the regiment as a flight commander, later became an ace and Hero of the Soviet Union in the Korean War (9 victories).

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• The 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. - USSR Ministry of Defense. Military Scientific Department 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 Stalin's fighter regiments. The first full encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014. - p. 917. - 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .

1. List of operations of the armed forces of the USSR in World War II
2. Soviet aviation in World War II (inaccessible link)
3. Heroes of World War II
4. Air Force combat composition
5. The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
6. World War II Aviators