26th Air Army

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The 26th Air Army was an Air army of the Soviet Air Forces active from 1949 to 1980, and then 1988-1992.

It was formed by redesignation of the 1st Air Army in February 1949 (in accordance with a decree of 10 January 1949, ГШ ВС СССР No. ОРГ 120026), and controlled frontal aviation units stationed in the Belorussian Military District until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Under newly independent Belarus, the army headquarters was used to form that of the Belarusian Air Force in 1992. The units of the army were divided between the Belarusian Air Force and the Russian Air Force in 1991–1993.