However, many regiments, aircraft, and personnel were claimed by the republics they were based in, forming the core of the new republics' air forces. The major commands of the former Soviet VVS-the Long-Range Aviation, Military Transport Aviation and Frontal Aviation were renamed, with few changes, Russian VVS commands. Russia received the majority of the most modern fighters and 65% of the manpower.
General Pyotr Deynekin, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Forces, became the first commander of the new organisation on 24 August 1991. Strategic Rocket Forces (1991–present )įollowing the dissolution of the Soviet Union into its fifteen constituent republics in December 1991, the aircraft and personnel of the Soviet Air Forces-the VVS were divided among the newly independent states.Aviation of the Military Maritime Fleet (1991–present ).Military Air Forces of the Russian Federation (1991–present ).Aviation of the Military Maritime Fleet (1918–1992).Military Air Forces of the USSR (1918–1992).Workers and Peasants Red Air Fleet (1918–1991)
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Further information: Imperial Russian Air Service and Soviet Air Forces Historical Air Forces of Russia