8th Air Defence Army

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The 8th Separate Army of the Air Defence Forces (Military Unit Number 25342) was a Soviet military formation established in 1960. Army headquarters was in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.

The 8th air defense army was formed in March 1960 on the basis of the Kiev Air Defense Army on the basis of the Directive of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces No. omu/1/454690 of 24.03.1960. Previously the Kiev Air Defence Region had air defence responsibility for the area.

In 1980 the Baku Air Defence District was disbanded, and the 12th Air Defence Corps came under the command of the 8th Air Defence Army in April 1980. The 12th Air Defence Corps was shifted under the command of the 19th Air Defence Army in the Caucasus in 1986.

In 1988 it comprised the 49th and 60th Air Defence Corps.

The last commander of the army, General-Lieutenant Mikhail Lopatin (1989–1992), became the first commander of the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces, and retired as a colonel-general.