47th Fighter Aviation Regiment

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

• 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Force Pacific Fleet (03/25/1949)
• 47th Air Defense Fighter Regiment (02/01/1957)
• 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1980)
• 47th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment (1988)
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The 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment was formed from June 23 to 27, 1938 in the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army at the Kamen-Rybolov airdrome on the basis of the 7th and 116th Fighter Aviation Squadrons of the 69th Fighter Aviation Brigade for states 15/828 and 15/806. He joined the 53rd Aviation Brigade ^[1] .

• The 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment on February 11, 1949, together with the 249th Iad, was transferred from the 9th Air Force of the Primorsky Military District to the Air Force of the Pacific Fleet. On March 25, 1949, the 249th Fighter Aviation Division was renamed the 165th Fighter Aviation Division of the Navy and the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment to the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Navy .
• In 1957, the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Navy Air Force, together with the 165th fighter aviation division of the Navy Air Force, was transferred from the Navy Air Force to the Air Defense Forces. As part of the 165th Iad entered the Separate Far Eastern Air Defense Army (subsequently - 11 OA Air Defense ) and on February 1, 1957 received the name 47th Air Defense Fighter Regiment .
• In 1980, the 47th fighter aviation regiment was transferred from the air defense forces to the air forces of the Far Eastern Military District and was named the 47th fighter aviation regiment.
• In 1988, the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment was transferred back from the Air Force to the Air Defense Forces as part of the 11th Air Defense Army and was named the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment .

As a result of the ongoing reform of the Russian Armed Forces, the 47th Fighter Aviation Regiment of Air Defense was disbanded on April 24, 1998 in the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Far Eastern Military District at Unashi Airport ( Golden Valley ).

As part of the army ^[2] :

• from August 9, 1945 to September 3, 1945

• Major Goltsov Valentin Ermolaevich ^[3] , 12/02/1942 - 12/31/1945

Fighting at Hassan Lake
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)
Soviet-Japanese War :

• Harbino-Girin offensive operation from August 9, 1945 to September 2, 1945

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the regiment as part of the 32nd Iad was thanked for taking possession of the cities of Jiamusi , Mergen, Beianzhen, Jirin , Dairen , Zhehe , Mishan , Mukden , Port Arthur , Harbin , Qiqihar , Changchun , Yanji ^[4]

•   Vishnyakov Ivan Alekseevich , pilot of the regiment during the Soviet-Japanese War, on February 23, 1948, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Gold Star No. 8317
•   Kukin Ivan Andreevich , pilot of the regiment, took part in the battles on Lake Hasan , on October 25, 1938 he was awarded the Order of Lenin .

For the period of participation in the Soviet-Japanese conflict at Lake Hassan ^[3] :

In total, during the period of the Soviet-Japanese War, the regiment ^{[3] [5]} :

Its losses ^[3] :

• 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 Stalin's fighter aviation regiments. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 851- 852. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - 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
5. The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
6. World War II Aviators