Military Transport Aviation

In 1999–2009 it was reduced in status to the 61st Air Army of the Supreme High Command (61 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK).

The VTA traces its history to the formation of the first transport aviation unit in the Leningrad Military District on 1 June 1931.

[2] In 1955–56 air transport units were removed from the Soviet Airborne Troops and the VTA itself was created.

The main aircraft the 61st Air Army used was the Il-76 Candid (about 220) and An-22 Cock; or the medium transport An-12 Cub.

The '18th Guards Taganrogskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Military-Transport Aviation Division' was Military Unit no.

Unloading the Ural-4320 from the Il-76 at the Tuzla airfield in Bosnia, January 1996
The cargo compartment of the An-12 aircraft . Servicemen of the 35th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Kazakh Armed Forces prepare for parachute landing in the sky over the city of Kapchagay , May 1996
A Russian IL-76 transport from the Tver Military Transportation Air Base touches down at Scott AFB, Ill. on 24 October 1995. The Russians were participating in Peacekeeper '95, the first time that Russian troops trained on American soil.