The 12th Mginskaya Red Banner Military Transport Aviation Division (''12-я Мгинская Краснознаменная военно-транспортная авиационная дивизия'') is a formation of the 61st Air Army of the Supreme Command of the

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History

The division was formed on 5 May 1943 as the 12th Air Division Long Range at

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, equipped with

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aircraft. On 1 August 1943 it was subordinate of the 7th Aviation Corps Long Range. It received its name for the successful accomplishment of combat missions in the battle against the Nazi invaders and the release of

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( Mginskoye Urban Settlement),

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. On 26 December 1944, it became the 12th Bomber Aviation Division. Renamed 12th Transport Aviation Division in 1946, then 12th Military-Transport Aviation Division on 12 October 1955 and subsequently became part of

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(VTA). In 1970 the division comprised: *374th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Tula Klokovo (air base), Tula Oblast) with An-12 *566th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment ( Seshcha, Bryansk Oblast) with An-12 *229th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment (Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast) with An-22 *8th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment ( Seshcha, Bryansk Oblast) with An-12 In 1998, with the rest of VTA became part of 61st Air Army, based at the Migalovo Air Base (

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). The division used

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Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12. ...

, and

An-124 The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (; ; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the ...

transport aircraft. It was disbanded in 2009 but restored in 2015.

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