page_title: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
section_title: Structure 2007
hierarchical_section_title: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army / 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army / Structure 2007
caption_attribution_description: English: Structure 4th Air Army, Russian Air Force
context_page_description: The 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army is an army of the Russian Air Force, part of the Southern Military District and headquartered in Rostov-on-Don.
  The 4th Air Army was a Soviet Air Force formation and from 1992 to 2009 was part of the Russian Air Force. From 1998 the army was designated the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army. It was first established on 22 May 1942 from the Air Forces of the Soviet Southern Front, and fought on the Eastern Front until 1945. In 1949 it was redesignated the 37th Air Army. It was reformed on 4 April 1968 in Poland, and was active there with the Northern Group of Forces for over twenty years, shifting to the North Caucasus Military District in August 1992. The arrival of the Sukhoi Su-24 drastically changed its tasking in the 1980s.
  It became the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Command in 2009 but was reestablished from the command in 2015.
context_section_description: Headquarters 4th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence – Rostov on Don
  1st Guards Composite Aviation Division – Krasnodar
  559th Bomber Aviation Regiment –  Morozovsk – Su-24 in service. Previously based at Finsterwalde in East Germany with the 16th Air Army;
  959th Bomber Aviation Regiment –  Eisk Airport – operates the Su-24 and L-39C;
  368th Assault Aviation Regiment – Budyonnovsk – Su-25;
  461st Assault Aviation Regiment – Krasnodar –  Su-25;
  960th Assault Aviation Regiment – Primorsko-Akhtarsk – Su-25;
  51st Air Defence Corps – Rostov on Don (disbanded and reorganised in 2009 as 7th Brigade of Missile-Space Defence)
  3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment –  Krymskaya (ex 562nd) – Su-27; (1.12.09 renamed 6972nd Guards Aviation Base)
  19th Fighter Aviation Regiment – Millerovo – MiG-29; (disbanded 2009 and reorganised as 6969th Aviation Base)
  31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment – Zernograd – MiG-29. Previously based at Falkenberg in East Germany with the 16th Air Army. Disbanded 2009.
  SAM Regiments
  11th Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment – Marinovka – operates the Su-24MR. Formerly based with 16th Air Army, Welzow, East Germany;
  535th Independent Composite Aviation Regiment – Rostov on Don – Mi-8, An-12 and An-26 in service;
  ex Army Aviation component
  55th Independent Helicopter Regiment – Korenovsk – Mi-24, Mi-8;
  325th Independent Transport-Combat Helicopter Regiment – Yegorlyskaya – Mi-26, Mi-8;
  487th Independent Helicopter Regiment for battle control- Budyonnovsk – Mi-8, Mi-24;
  In addition to the above forces, Russian aviation forces in Armenia, probably within the ambit of 4th Air Army, comprise 18 MiG-29 fighters of the 426th Fighter Squadron [426 Istrebitel’naya Aviatsionnaya Eskadril’ya (426 IAE)] and the 700th Air Traffic Control Center, both at the 3624th Air Base [3624 Aviatsionnaya Baza (3624 AB)] at Erebuni Airport outside Yerevan.
caption: Structure 4th Air Army
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