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Originally Posted by Trevally.

Just the Russian airbases to add - then its ready

I am on it, Trevally

For a start, some general information:

The Air Force of the Red Army (VVS-RKKA) was divided into two basic components. The first was the Air Force of the Red Army which consisted of fighter and ground attack regiments under the direct control of a Military District (later Front). The second component was the Long-Range Bomber Force which was at the disposal of the State Commissariat of Defence for tactical deployment on any front when necessary.
In April 1939 a thorough re-organization within the Air Force took place. The largest formation was now the air division, which comprised between four and six air regiments (formerly brigades). Each regiment consisted of about 60 aircraft with additional reserve planes (usually about 40 aircraft).
There were three types of Air Regiment:
bomber regiments with four squadrons of 12 aircraft each;
fighter regiments with four squadrons of 15 aircraft each;
ground attack regiments with four squadrons of 15 aircraft each.
The squadron was divided into wings of three aircraft.
The Air Force attached to a Military District or Front included a number of fighter and bomber regiments, while mixed regiments with both bomber and fighter components were attached to army corps, which also retained their own reconnaissance squadrons.

source:
http://ww2-weapons.com/Orders-of-bat...-Army-1939.htm

more from Red stars in the Sky: Soviet Air Force in World War Two (Vol. 1, p. 41) by Carl-Fredrik Geust (sorry for the long quote, but I think it is worth it):

THE ORGANIZATION OF
THE SOVIET AIR FORCE IN WW II

During World War II, the Soviet Air Arm was divided into different units according to required duties and areas of operation.

On ]une 22, 1941 the division of the Soviet Air Force or the Air Force of the Red Army (Voenno-vozdushnye sily Krasnoi
Armii) was as follows:

a. The Air Force of the Supreme Command (long range bomber units),
and
b. the Air Forces subordinate to the land forces, consisting of:
1. the From Air Forces (formed from the air Forces of the Military Districts).
2. the Army Air Forces (subordinate to the High Command of the respective armies), and
3. the Liaison Squadrons (subordinate to the Commanders of different ground force units).

In addition to the above mentioned units, each fleet of the Soviet Navy had its own Air Force (see below).

The aircraft inventory comprised some 11,500 planes. Of these, some 1,350 aircraft were allocated to the Air Force of the Supreme Command, some 8,600 to the Ground Forces (about 3,500 to the Front Air Forces, about 3,800 to the Army Air Forces and a couple of hundred to the Liaison Squadrons), and the Naval Air Forces were allocated 1,445 aircraft in different Fleets. Of the total 11,500 aircraft some 6,000 were fighters (about 80 % of these were obsolete types).

From 1938 the basis of organization was changed from Aviation Brigades to Aviation Regiments. In 1938-41, an Aviation Regiment (Aviatsionnyi Polk, AP) consisted of 4 or 5 squadrons (eskadrilya) or a total of 60 aircraft. From 1941 the regiments were formed of 8 squadrons. The nominal strength of each Fighter Regiment and Ground Attack Regiment was 40 aircraft and that of a Bomber Regiment was 82 aircraft. Squadrons were divided into flights (zveno) consisting of 3 or 4 aircraft. The regiments were arranged into Aviation Divisions (Aviatsionnaya Diviziya, AD) consisting of three Aviation Regiments. The nominal strength of a Fighter Division was thus 124 aircraft (including spare aircraft) and that of a Bomber Division was 98 aircraft.

The biggest flying unit employed was Aviation Army Corps (Aviatsionnyi Korpus, AK) which consisted of 2 or 3 Aviation Divisions, i.e., either 250 to 375 fighters or 200 to 300 bombers.

In May 1942 the Front Air Forces and the Army Air Forces were re-organised into independent Air Armies (Vozdushnaya Amtiya, VA). A co-ordinated and purposive deployment was characteristic of each Air Army. There were altogether I8 Air Armies, each consisting generally of 5 to 8 (at times as many as 18) Aviation Divisions.

...

The Naval Air Forces (Aviatsiya Voenno-morskogo flota, VVS VMF) were designated an independent arm on January 1, 1938. Each of the Navy's Fleets had its individual Air Force:

1) the Red Banner Baltic Fleet Air Force (VVS KBF)
2) the Nonhern Fleet Air Force (VVS SF),
3) the Black Sea Fleet Air Force (VVS ChF), and
4) the Pacific Fleet Air Force (VVS TOF).

On ]une 22, 1941, 655 of the Naval Air Forces' 1,445 aircraft were fighters.

...

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, 40 fighter regiments (about 1,500 aircraft) were separated from the Air Force proper to form a group assigned to air defence duties. At the beginning of 1942 these regiments were subordinated to the Air Defence Troops (Vojska PVO) under which they formed a new arm, the Air Defence Fighter Units (IA PVO). On May 1, 1945 these troops comprised a total of 97 regiments.

From the summer of 1943 the Soviet Air Force had both strategic air supremacy and superiority over the enemy in quality and quantity. While in 1941 a maximum of 200 to 500 aircraft took part in war operations, in 1943 each major operation could already be assigne a couple of thousand aircraft. In spring 1945, as many as 7,500 Soviet warplanes took part in the battle of Berlin.

The Soviet fighters claimed a total of about 40,000 aerial victories during the war. Of these, the pilots of the Naval Air Forces claimed 4,900 and the pilots of the Air Defence Fighter Units claimed 3,930.

During the latter half of the 1930's and still at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the most common Soviet Fighter types were the I-16, I-15bis (I-152), and I-153 designed by Polikarpov. Production of the new fighter generation (LaGG-8, MiG-3, and Yak-1 fighters) began in late 1940.

On ]une 22, 1941, the air forces of the Baltic, Byelo-Russian, Kiev and Odessa Military Districts included about 5,540 aircraft of which about 3,270 were fighters, and of these, only 980 belonged to the new fighter generation.

During the blitzkrieg attacks of the first day of the Great Patriotic War, the Germans destroved as many as 1,136 Soviet aircraft (800 of them on the ground). From 1942 the war industry, which had been evacuated to Siberia, was, however, capable of replacing the serious aircraft losses of the first year of war with new high-performance Yak-7, La-5, Yak-9, La-7, and Yak-3 fighters.

From autumn I941, the United States and Britain provided dhe Soviet Union with additional aircraft delivered under the "lend-lease" agreement. including Aircobra, Kingcobra, Kittyhawk, Tomahawk, Thunderbolt, Hurricane, and Spitfire fighters. The number of these aircraft represented, however, only a small part of the total number of fighters in the Soviet Air Force. During the war, the Soviet Aircraft industry roduced a total of 136.800 aircrafi of which 108,028 were actual warplanes, while the lend-lease deliveries totalled 17.834 aircraft. In the table below are given
the total numbers of Soviet wartime fighters produced in the Soviet Union or imported under the lend-lease agreement.

Fighter type / Number
I-16 / 6,555
I-15bis / 2,408
I-153 / 3,437
LaGG-3 / 6,528
MiG-3 / 3,322
Yak-1 / 8,721
Yak-7 / 6,399
La-5 / about 10,000
Yak-9 / 16,769
La-7 / 5,753
Yak-3 / 4,848
P-39 Airacobra / 5,707
P-63 Kingcobra / 2,400
P-40 Tomahawlt, Warhawk / 2,397
P-47 Thunderbolt / 195
Hurricane 2,952
Spitfire 1,331

More to come

Originally Posted by volodya61

Your (Google ) Russian is good enough..
I think all the airbase placements are in the open sources and Gabriele know all these sources better than we..

Blame it on language barriers or on the fact that the Soviet government kept WWII military information secret until relatively recently but, too bad, the sources about Soviet Air Forces are not so open

By the way of language barriers: can you help me with the translation of the links found in the following page?

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forum...ad.php?t=33002

Originally Posted by volodya61

PS: and, as I know, we (USSR) lost most of our airbases and aircraft in the first days of the war (June 1941), because they were concentrated along the borders.. so, our Air Force began to work intensively with the year 1942-43.. I guess..

Thank you. This is a confirmation of what is stated by the above sources

@ Vecko

awesome screenies, mate