426th Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery Division

In early 1941, the Soviet government decided to form new additional units and air defense units. Over the course of the year, it was supposed to form more than 20 new anti-aircraft artillery regiments, more than 60 anti-aircraft artillery divisions, several searchlight regiments and other units. ^[one]

The 426th separate anti-aircraft artillery division was formed in the late summer of 1941. Formed in the villages of Kola and Nagornoye, in the Murmansk region , based on the 33rd OZAD.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1944, the 426th division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner . ^[2]

On January 1, 1944, the 426th OZAD became part of the 1st Air Defense Corps (Murmansk) during its formation. The corps was formed on April 1, 1944. Major General I. F. Korolenko was appointed corps commander.

The 426th OZAD was awarded the Order of the Red Banner . Therefore, the Red Banner OKZAD was added to the title. In the summer of 1945, it was relocated to Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) for a permanent duty station. Assigned the number of the military unit "28471".

• 426th Separate Red Banner Guards Anti-aircraft Artillery Division

The backbone was formed by the commanders of the 33rd OZAD, which occupied the most important positions:

Commanders of the 426th HLW: Lieutenant Tamrazyan, Major Pokhudenko Yakov Fedorovich (from 11/02/42 to 11/10/42) - appointed Commander of Monchegorsk, captain Altunin O. A., since the autumn of 1944 Major Statsenko
Chiefs of Staff: Lieutenant Kabanov (from the end of 1944 - st.l-t Yaropolov Fedor Vasilyevich)
Assistant Chief of Staff: Lieutenant M. M. Golev (early release of the Sevastopol anti-aircraft artillery school)
Senior Political Advisor: Garitashvilli
Battery commanders: Lieutenants Mikhail S. Kasparyan, Galkin and Gogolev

Gun Commanders:

• Sergeant Mayboroda (graduated from the war as deputy division commander)
• Sergeant Siminenko (finished the war as a battery commander)
• mln. l-t Akulich David Semenovich

Commander of the PUAZO −2 Division: Sergeant Baranov
The commander of the 3rd battery of the MPA: Lieutenant Gogolev
Commander of the range office: Sergeant Volsky
Military doctor: Mirra Yakovlevna Perlstein (the only woman at the time of the formation of the division)

Komorgi:

• 1st battery -
• 2nd Battery - Ignatova Tekusa Ivanovna (Deputy Division Commander)
• 3rd Battery MZA -

driver service support: Sharkov

• Autumn 1941

The staff of the battalion of those who are drafted into the army for mobilization is completed. Most of Murmansk , Leningrad , Arkhangelsk and Vologda . Basically 1903-1915 year of birth. One fighter - Private Markaryan was born in 1895.

• Summer 1943

At the call of the Komsomol Central Committee "to replace men in some army units," volunteer girls began to arrive in the air defense forces. Most of the Komsomol with secondary and secondary technical education, age twenty-twenty-one. The girls came mainly from Leningrad , Vologda and Cherepovets , Komi ASSR . They replaced men on PUAZO devices, range finders. Became scouts, signalers, machine gunners.

• two medium caliber batteries
• MZA battery (small anti-aircraft artillery)
• anti-aircraft gun company
• searchlight company
• service and units of combat logistics.

• 1941

1st battery - 76-mm anti-aircraft guns of the sample of 1931 (four per battery) and PUAZO-1 (4 pcs.)
2nd battery - 76-mm anti-aircraft guns of the sample of 1931 (four per battery) and PUAZO-1 (4 pcs.)
3rd MZA battery - 37 mm cannons (6 pcs.) High-speed (up to 120 rounds per minute) automatic anti-aircraft guns designed for shooting low-flying aircraft
anti-aircraft gun company - quadruple installation caliber 7.62 mm .

• 1942

The 76mm guns were replaced with a large, 85mm caliber . New Advanced Artillery Anti-Aircraft Control Devices ( PUAZO-2 )

• 1943

first radar installations

1941

• KP (command post) - settlement Nagornoye, Murmansk region

1st Battery - firing positions in the area of ​​the village Murmashi . Combat mission: cover the airfield and the Tulom hydroelectric station .
2nd Battery - firing positions near the village of Nagornoye. Combat mission: cover the Tulom hydroelectric station.
3rd Battery MZA - fiery positions on the islet of the Tuloma River. Combat mission: to cover the airfield and the Tulomskaya HPP (September 1941) and the 15th berth of the Murmansk port

  reference: 
 Airfield - Fighter Regiment - at the beginning of the war the basing of aircraft: I-153, I-16
 Combat mission - to meet enemy aircraft on the way to Murmansk

• 1943

A new combat mission is to relocate to the city of Monchegorsk and cover the Severonikel Combine from enemy aviation strikes.

• 1944 (summer)

New combat mission - to depart on the Western Front, at the disposal of the commander of the 5th Shock Army . (cancellation at the request of the director of the plant Severonikel)

• 1944 (autumn)

A new combat mission - redeployment to the western front in Warsaw (Poland), repelling enemy air raids.
A new combat task is to engage firing positions in the area of Mlawa (Poland), repelling enemy air raids and eliminating gangs of Polish nationalists.

• 1945 (May 9)

In the city of Mlawa (Poland), the division met Victory Day .
A few months later, after the Victory, the first demobilization was carried out, consisting of girls, national economy specialists and older men. The rest of the fighters, together with the commanders, were relocated to Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and took over the protection of the sky of the city and the fortress.

The 1st Air Defense Corps was formed in Murmansk on April 1, 1944 by the commander, Major General I. F. Korolenko. The 426th OKZAD entered into its composition.
Corps disbanded in 1945

Do not confuse, please:

  1st Air Defense Corps (Moscow) formed 11/01 / 38g.  27/12 / 41g disbanded.
 1st Air Defense Corps (Moscow) formed 01/10 / 52g.

Statistics on the 1st Air Defense Corps

In the battles with the enemy, the defenders of the Kola sky destroyed 427 enemy aircraft, of which:
pilots - 196
gunners, gunners, machine gunners - 208
fighters VNOS - 19

1. cr-ts Pavlov, Mikhail Petrovich, 1907, went missing in March 1942
2. lt Komarsky Boris Fedorovich, 1921, died June 13, 1942, buried in Kola
3. cr-c Kirikova Tatyana Mikhailovna, 1921, died April 25, 1943, buried in the city of Monchegorsk
4. mln. St. Yakovlev Nikolai Yakovlevich, 1913, died April 25, 1943, buried in the city of Monchegorsk
5. cr-t. Voloshin Vasily Grigorievich, 1926 died on 03/22/1944 in 1020 EG, buried in the city of Monchegorsk

Anti-aircraft gunners and air defense pilots who defended the Polar Region occupied one of the first places in the country's air defense system in terms of the number of reflected raids, the number of enemy aircraft shot down and the duration of active combat operations (1240 days and nights)
In the number of bombs dropped by fascist aircraft per square meter, Murmansk was second only to Stalingrad.
During the war years, 30 kilograms of explosives and seven lighters fell on each Murmansk citizen.

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• “Protecting the Arctic sky”, “Attention! Air! ”/ Commander of the 426th Division from 1944 to 1946 - Statsenko I. D. comp. V.P. Zagrebin, M.Ya. Oschepkov. - Murmansk, 1990
• Zenit / The commander of the weapons crew, 1st Komsomol Komsomol, 33rd Separate Division Komsomol, Belarusian writer and public figure - I. Shamyakin 1987
• "Nickel of the Kola Land" / Gennady Anatolyevich Leibenzon, documents

• Directories and forum on Soldat.ru
• List No. 31 of artillery units and subunits (separate battalions, battalions, batteries, companies and detachments) with the dates of their entry into the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (inaccessible link)
• Forum of the Relatives of the Polar Region Defenders and the 426th Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery Division