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The 4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel VVS of the
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is a research, training, and instructional centre. It was formed at Tambov (air base) on 19 April 1953. In 1954 it was transferred to
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and 1960 to the
Lipetsk Lipetsk (, ), also Romanization of Russian, romanized as Lipeck, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh (river), Voronezh River in the Do ...
air base, and then was transformed into the 4th Centre deployment and retraining flight personnel of the Air Force. It was part of the
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for decades. During the Soviet era the training department of the centre taught over 45,000 officers of various military specialities. Eleven Soviet
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s retrained on new types of aircraft at the base. As a symbol of the history of aviation in Lipetsk, in August 1969 an Aviators' Square was erected with a monument of an upward-pointed
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aircraft. From 1960 to 1990 the centre directed three research-instructor aviation regiments, the 91st, 455th, and 760th. The 91st and 760th were at Lipetsk while the 455th was at
Voronezh Malshevo (air base) Voronezh Malshevo is an air base in Voronezh Oblast of the Russian Aerospace Forces as part of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Western Military District. and Baltimore. The base is home to the 47th Composite Guards Aviation Regiment w ...
. The 91st and 760th were disbanded in 1992 and the 455th Research-Instructor Mixed Aviation Regiment was renamed the
455th Bomber Aviation Regiment 455th may refer to: *455th Air Expeditionary Wing, provisional United States Air Force USAFCENT unit *455th Flying Training Squadron, United States Air Force unit of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) See also *455 (number) *455 (disamb ...
and resubordinated to the 105th Mixed Aviation Division. In their place the 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment returned from
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in East Germany in 1992 and was converted in 1993 into a Research-Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment, later a Research-Instructor Mixed Aviation Regiment. After the
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the military-industrial complex deteriorated, and the budget of the armed forces was significantly reduced. It was a difficult time for the Lipetsk Air Base. The
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was assigned to the centre from 2001 to 2002. A change for the better only began in 2003: the available fuel increased, and the material base began to be strengthened. In July 2003, on the 300th anniversary of
Lipetsk Lipetsk (, ), also Romanization of Russian, romanized as Lipeck, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh (river), Voronezh River in the Do ...
, a ninety-minute airshow was held. This event began with a visiting delegation of French military pilots, headed by General Jean Romuald Robert. The group arrived with two
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military transport planes,
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CTs, and three
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fighter/attack aircraft. On 22 April 2004 the Russian president
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and Prime Minister Italian
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visited the centre, arriving in Lipetsk on opening the Italian company Ariston. There was a demonstration of aviation technology in action, including complex aerobatics, with the personal participation of the chief of the centre Alexander Kharchevsky. On 5 September 2006 a delegation from 32
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member states visited the air base for the first time. On 3 August 2007 the newest Russian fighter-bomber, the
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from Novosibirsk Aviation Industrial Association flew at the test airfield. Under the control of pilots Sergei Shcherbina and Alexander Aschenkova the plane arrived in Lipetsk Air Base, where it was solemnly adopted and made atonement for the Air Force.
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and Su-34 bombers from Lipetsk PPI and PLC participated in the 2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade. The Su-34 was piloted by the chief of the aviation centre, Major General . 19 June 2008 marked the 55th anniversary of the founding of Lipetsk Air Base. In 2011, the
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office of the
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opened a criminal investigation into the extortion of money from Lipetsk Air Base airmen. According to "Interfax", the reason for this was the information contained in the Internet address of
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Igor Sulim, which found its confirmation in the audit. Defendants in the case, initiated on the 286th article
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("exceeding official authority") began with the commander of the military unit,
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Edward Kowalski, and his deputy for educational work, Colonel Sergei Sidorenko. After a three-year trial, they were convicted and sentenced to deprivation of liberty for a term of four and five years probation and ordered to pay compensation to the victims. In 2013, aviation centre staff began development of
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super-maneuverable multi-role fighters; fighter development began in 2014 for
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s. In 2014, the aviation centre airfield was used as the base airfield at the time of the flight crews of the Air Force and Navy aviation competition "
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". In August 2015 the chief of the aviation centre, Major-General Alexander Kharchevsky resigned; he was replaced by
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Major General
Sergey Kobylash Sergey Ivanovich Kobylash (; born 1 April 1965) is a Russian military officer who has been the Commander of the Russian Air Force and a Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces since July 2024. Prior to that, he was the command ...
until September 2016. The current chief aviation center is Lieutenant General Yu. A Sushkov.


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