The headquarters of the 12th Independent Air Defense Army was formed from the headquarters of the 30th Independent Air Defense Corps in May 1963 in accordance with a directive issued in January of that year, under the command of corps commander Lieutenant General Yuri Votintsev.
The 737th Fighter Aviation Regiment was located in Priozersk, Kazakhstan (in Dzhambul Oblast) [46 01 40N, 73 29 27E], from November 1960 to December 1983.
[1] The headquarters of the 15th Air Defense Division was formed at Yelets in 1960 from that of the 328th Fighter Aviation Division PVO and relocated to Samarkand in 1964 and 1965 without its units, taking control of air defense units in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in spring 1965.
The area of responsibility of the latter continued to exclude Semipalatinsk Oblast and the rest of East Kazakhstan.
[2] Russian personnel of the army departed, but the armed forces of the newly independent Central Asian former Soviet republics – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan – were largely left with the equipment of the units that had been stationed on what became their territory.