The 22nd Guards Donbas Red Banner Heavy Bomber Aviation Division is a division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation branch having previously been a Soviet Air Forces formation.

It saw illustrious service during the Second World War, including supply of the Red Army in the Demyansk Pocket and the bombing of Berlin.

By mid-April 1942 formed the division relocated to the outskirts of Moscow airports Monino and Noginsk.

Crews regiments of the division involved in the supply of the Red Army had kept the Germans in the Demyansk pocket.

Cargoes discharged without parachutes from an altitude of 100 – 400 m. In April, the division suffered the first losses - some TB-3 was shot down by night fighters.

From September 1942 to February 1943 the regiments of the divisions were based on the ground at Michurinsky aerouzla and worked for Stalingrad and Don Fronts.

For showing courage in fighting for their homeland against the German invaders, with persistence, discipline and organization, for heroism, the order of People's Commissariat of Defense (NKO) under the number 274 of September 18, 1943, the division was awarded the title of Guards.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for its exemplary fulfillment of the command in the battles against the German invaders in the capture of the German capital - of Berlin, and displaying courage and heroism, the division was awarded the Order of Red Banner.

[1][3] For excellent military operations during World War II, the division was honored with the Supreme Commander's gratitude 13 times.

[6][7] In April 1946 the division's units included:[8] 330th Bomber Aviation Regiment disbanded on November 24, 1949.

The crews of the connection belongs to the leadership in the development of in-flight refueling supersonic missile.

[14] On 14 January 2023, an aircraft from the 52nd Heavy Bomber Regiment, participating in the Russo-Ukrainian War, fired a Kh-22 missile that hit a block of flats in Dnipro, killing numerous civilians.