14th Air Army The 14th Air Army ( " 14 Vozdushnaya Armiya " ) of the Russian Air Force , was first formed during the Second World War as part of the Soviet Air Force . It was disbanded in 2009 . The Army was first formed from the Air Forces of the Volkhov Front in June 1942 , and in 1943 participated in the Novgorod - Luga operation . In February 1944 it was dispersed , with the command staff assigned to the Stavka Reserve and its units to other air armies . Reformed in April 1944 , when it served with the 3rd Baltic Front , it was again dispersed in November 1944 , with its staff again been allocated to the Stavka Reserve and its units to other formations . It was active on 1 May 1945 with the 107th Air Signals Regiment and the 30th Air Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet ( Aeroflot ) , as part of the Stavka Reserve . However it became the 57th Air Army on 10 January 1949 . Chief Marshal of Aviation Konstantin Vershinin was 57th Air Army commander in 1951 . Colonel General of Aviation Polynin was commander 57th Air Army 1956 - 60 . 57th Air Army was included in 1964 Warsaw Pact war planning , being planned to be moved forward from the Carpathian Military District to become part of the Czechoslovak Front if war broke out between NATO and the Warsaw Pact . Reformed from the 57th Air Army in April 1968 , the 14th Air Army was serving in the Carpathian Military District when the Soviet Union fell . In 1988 - 91 it consisted of the 4th Fighter Aviation Division ( two MiG - 29 regiments , 92nd and 145th IARs in 1990 ) ( Ivano - Frankovsk ) , the 289th Bomber Aviation Division ( two Su - 24 regiments ) ( Lutsk ) , a regiment of Su - 25s ( Chortkov ) , a reconnaissance regiment of MiG - 25s ( 48 GvORAP at Kolomyia , Ivano - Frankivsk Oblast ? ) , a mixed regiment of transport aircraft ( Lvov ) , and a helicopter electronic squadron . Its units became part of the Ukrainian armed forces . The formation appears to have become the 14th Air Corps ; in 2002 , some years later , over 70 people were killed when a Su - 27 crashed at an airshow at Sknyliv , held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 14th Air Army . It was re - formed in the late 1990s , Air Forces Monthly reported in its August 2007 issue , from the 14th Independent Army of the Air Defence Forces ( the PVO ) at Novosibirsk , the 23rd Air Army of the Russian Air Force s from Chita and the 50th Independent Corps of PVO also from Chita . Despite the service of the 14th Air Army in the Second World War , much of the background of the new formation rested with the 14th Army of the PVO . The 14th Army of the PVO was formed from the 14th Corps of the PVO at Novosibirsk , and included the 38th ( HQ Novosibirsk ) , 39th ( HQ Krasnoyarsk , 50th Guards Air Defence Corps ( HQ Chita ) , and 56th Air Defence Corps ( HQ Semipalatinsk ) of the PVO , as well as the 41st Division of the PVO , in 1988 . In 1988 five fighter regiments were part of the army . Fighter Regiments of the 14th Army PVO 1988 ( Source Feskov et al . ) The new army was given the title of 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defence ( 14 A VVS i PVO ) . Its zone of responsibility covered the huge area of the Siberian Military District , AFM said , and its headquarters was located in Novosibirsk . AFM also said that the aircraft were concentrated in the southern part of the territory , along the border with Kazakhstan and Mongolia . In 2007 the commanding officer of the 14th Air Army , AFM also reported , was Lieutenant - General Nikolay Danilov . The most important force , AFM noted , within the army was the 21st Composite Air Division , which operated a Sukhoi Su - 24 M tactical bomber regiment , a Su - 24MR reconnaissance regiment and a Su - 25 attack aircraft regiment . The division was stationed in the eastern part of its responsibility zone , near the Chinese border . The army was disbanded in 2009 by being redesignated as the 2nd Air and Air Defence Forces Command .