26th Air Army


The 26th Air Army was an Air army of the Soviet Air Forces active from 1949 to 1980, and then 1988-circa 1991.
It was formed by redesignation of the 1st Air Army in Kaliningrad in February 1949, but from 1946 to the 1990s was in the Belorussian Military District.

Highlights

In 1952 two new Fighter Aviation Divisions arrived within the 26th Army, the 175th from East Germany and the 229th from Poland.
In 1953 the 175th Fighter Aviation Division was transferred to the 30th Air Army in the Baltic States, and was replaced by the 95th Fighter Aviation Division, arriving from the 29th Air Army in the Far East.
On 1 May 1988, in accordance with the Ministry of Defence of the USSR's Decree № 0018, the Air Forces of the District were again renamed the 26th Air Army.
The 95th Fighter Aviation Division was disbanded in mid-1988.
In 1990 the army included:
The army came under Belorussian control in mid 1992. On 15 June 1992, by decree № 05 of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus, the 26th Air Army headquarters became the command of the Air Forces of the Republic of Belarus.