28th Guards Leningrad Order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment (28th GIAP) (Russian: 28-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Ленинградский ордена Кутузова полк (28-й гв.

The 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment was formed between 23 and 26 January 1940 at Kubinka airfield in the Moscow Military District.

The regiment was equipped with I-153 biplane fighters transferred from the 11th and 24th IAPs and formed part of the 2nd Aviation Brigade of the Air Force (VVS) of the Moscow Military District.

After the end of the war, the 153rd IAP became part of the 59th Fighter Aviation Brigade of the VVS Leningrad Military District in April.

The first regimental victory claim of the war, a Bf 109 shot down over Parikkala, was credited to a MiG-3 pair led by Captain Georgy Larionov on 30 June.

The much reduced 153rd IAP was withdrawn from the front for rebuilding on 11 March, having flown 5,170 combat sorties since the war began with the loss of 37 aircraft and 24 pilots.

The regiment was reorganized under shtat 015/174 while it was rebuilt and re-equipped with the American Lend-Lease P-39 Airacobra between 22 March and 12 June.

Together with the division and army, the 153rd IAP was among the units included in the newly formed Voronezh Front on 7 July.

During its time with the Northwestern Front, the regiment flew 1,662 combat sorties with the loss of nineteen aircraft and twelve pilots.

[5] Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Boris Melekhin became the final wartime regimental commander on 2 October; he would remain in the position until 1949.

[4] The 28th Guards IAP was awarded the Order of Kutuzov, 3rd class, on 22 October in recognition of its "exemplary completion of command tasks" in the breakthrough of German defenses southeast of Riga.

Just days before the war ended on 9 May, the regiment was transferred with its division and corps to the 15th Air Army of the Leningrad Front on 5 May after the Zemland Group of Forces was disbanded.

Since its transfer to the Zemland Group of Forces and during the final months of war, the regiment flew 1,199 combat sorties with the loss of four aircraft and a single pilot.

[5] During the war, the regiment flew a total of 14,303 combat sorties, the majority of which were either on escort missions or providing air cover to ground troops.

With the 5th Guards IAD, it relocated from Kaliningrad Oblast to the Migalovo airfield in the Moscow Air Defence District between 9 and 19 September of that year.

[4] The division was rotated out of the intervention in the Korean War in October 1951, with the 28th Guards IAP transferring to Klin in the Moscow Air Defence District under the 88th IAK PVO.

[7] According to 19 November 1990 data released under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the regiment included 38 MiG-23s.

[9] The reductions of the 1990s saw changes in the command structure of the regiment, with it being transferred to the 239th Fighter Aviation Division of the 76th Air Army on 9 June 1994.

The corps was given air army status on 1 February 2002 and on 1 September of that year the Moscow District was reorganized as the Special Purpose Command.