1. AIR ORDER OF BATTLE 2. MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY NOTES

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1950
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY tSsR (Far East)
SUBJECT 1.. stir Ot'der of Battle
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2 t i.sc : l.laneous .:i1ttar y Notes
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2~h bomber Divisign `
1 , In the beginning of 149, the 247th bomber Division was composed of two bomber
regiments coiapo.;=ed of six "eskadrili" (squadrons) and a headquarters,,* The .
total nur"tber o`." planes in the division was 63 P?-21s, including six UP-2 trainers.
source tire' tine k 2's were not being manufactured any more and the unit
was aitin, fcr tat!-a to oe replaced by TU-21s, Subject further states that an
air transport regiment :gas attached to the 247th Division for the disposal only
of the Politotdel.(i:olitical section)., The CO of the 247th had no jurisdiction
over the 2R0th Transport Regiment.-
2. The following is the breakdown of the
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flight personnel of a squadron:
9 pilots
9 navigators
9 r adionon
18 mechanics
1 engineering officer
3 technicians (one fOr each flight)
10 specialists (e"lectricia.ns, armorers, etc.,)
Source states that there were 23 officers in a squadron,
The follo.%irl is the breakdown of the admi.nist; ative personnel of a squadron:
t;orrrcunz.cations (.he
Senior Operations Technician (Starshi TekruLk po Eksplotatsii)
Corr ending officer (Kordndir Aviatsionoi Eskadrili)
Navigation officer ( Shturman)
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+?, ncc. following is the breakdown of the administrative personnel of an air
regiment:
Commander of Regiment (Komandir Polka)
Deputy for the Flight Section (Za,mestitel po Letnoi Chasti)
Chief of Staff (I;achalnik Shtaba)
Deputy for the Political Section (Larrestitel. Po Politichoskoi Christi)
Party Representative (Partorg)
Communist Party Representative (Kor-isorg)
N-1 vigat ion Officer (Shturraan)
Deputy Comander for Qperations (Zanestitel Kom-ndira Polka po EksplotatsAi)
Chid" of Coue Clerks (Ivachulidk ShShS Sluzhpy)
Cnief of the Secret Section (Nachalnik Jekrotnogo Otdela)
Communications Chief (Nachalnik Svyazi)
Gunnery Chief (tvachalnik Vozdushnoi StrelkoJoi :iluzhby)
Deputy Engineering Officer for ,trraanent (Zarnestitel inzhenera Polka ?po
Vooruzheniyu)
Deputy Engineering Officer for Specialists (Zamestitel inzhenera Polka po
Spots Sluzhby)
Deputy Engineering Officer for iuaintena.nce (Zanestitel Inzhenera Polka po
Remontu) (not in all regiments)
Deputy Navigation Officer for Radio Navigation (Zaraestitel Shturmana Po
Radionavigatsii )
Chief of Personnel (Nachalnik Stroyevogo Otdeleniya 3 Kadrov)
5., The rollowing is the breakdown of the administrative personnel of an air
division:
a) Sane as in the air regiment except that in addition there is a Politotdel
composed of he chief and several agitators (political .corkers responsible
for Ko,;,so:..ol teaching, etc,,). The Politotdel comprises about 15 persons.
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division of the 247th Division type.
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10th Air Army
One righter division was transferred from Yuibyshovka Vostochnaya to 3abstovo
(48-J7 fl, 132-29E)?, it is possible that it would be attached
to the 10th .sir ?rmy. "In order to make room in L3abstovo, which was the locat-
ion of an air attack aivision commanded by Colonel Chi_rnachenko, the following
took place:
a.., r to head-:carters as transferred to Ukurei together with one air regiment.
b,. Qie air regiment was transferred to the 111th Razyazd.
c one air regiment was transferred to the 77th Razyezd. Source states that
t!aere is another division stationed at the 77th Razyezd. Headquarters of this
unit is located at barnaul (:3arnabul?). ** Source does not know what sort of
unit it is. This movement of troops began in July-August 1948 and continued
toward the end of the year.
Coram':rndingGenerals o r re he 1.? t.h A ir Army
7. _,t.Ceneral Kuutsevalov; Source served under Kutsevalov in the Far East,
Kutsevalov is an excellent fighter pilot and an expert shot., He is an ardent
hunter. He was assigned mostly to the Far Eastern units. He was not given
combat assignments during the war. Source states that Kutsevalov acted like a
despot todvard his, personnel.. lie shot his own office's and instituted his own
private punitive camp:,which he called the "Reserve". Not even Moscow knew of
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its exisLonce. Source believes that, if Kut cvalov had been used in combat,
hi or:n rien joule; have finished his. Kutsevalov served as CG of the 1.''.th
air nriiLy up to the end of 1945 ana he was transfer red
to Germany at that ti..ae on an assignraent with the Soviet occupation forcea.'MMr
8.. ixarshal hovikov: iuovikov as Kutsevalov's successor. He was or .ginally a
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navigator and cane to the 121th air smy disguised as a Colonel General.
(Source states that most of the ; e3 era is hide their true rank from their
personnel,) Novikov was arresteu and is probably
in the Kolyma pr son, #he reason for the arrest is unknown. Novikov arrLved
irk 1945 and left dt 'irk; the sa:re year,
This ran is one of the generals who participated in the
Ya1L-2 conference. fie was in the war with Japan from the beginning to the end..
he assumed command of the 12th nir Army toward the and of 1945 Khudyakov was
vary well liked by the personnel of the 12th. :nlistoe men and officers alike
received promotions from him, :.ward the end of th,: war with Japan, Khudyakov
was arrested and the orurer for hi3 arrest was signed by Stalin himself. .iaj?
General Pol 'anov, Khudya- kov e s deputy, was present during the latter e s arrest
.Polyanov. carne to thy: 12th as a Colonel of the Xi3. After his arrest, lhudyakov
was taken away in a plane; however, he was not stripped of 25X1X
his rank,
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1'J. Lt. General Slyusarev: blyusarev *us the CG when source was demobilized from
the i bh n,i;r irV. Deputy to :+lyusarev is ;`ka j. General Tokorev, At the time
25X1X of a Colonel Loban replaced f-'olyanov as the political
COMM.ssar o ' the 12th.
f~iseellaneous.
11. &-oraie of the troops stationed in the Kuriles is very bad. Frequent fights,
staobings, and even suicides occur. Dta^ing periods of low morale, officers
are unable to enforce maintenance duties on equipment. Equipment is left to
deteriorate aria to be corroded by the elements. (Date of information: December
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12, the air force officers are more dependable as fighting men
because t.ieir lot is generally better than that of the ground force officers,
13. The water supply in Stary Krym and Feodosiya is very inadequate. Large numbers
of men would use up the water supply in a matter of a week, rater supply in
the cities of the Crimea in general is rather bad; however, on the kolkhozy the
situation is much better since there are fewer consumers. Large numbers of men
and equipment could obtain enourNh dater only by requisitioning private or kolkhoz
WellsAor by digging new ones
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in -, the 247th Bomber Division is composed
of three regiments, each made up of three squadrons of 11 planes, or a total of
~R rues for the division.
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Lt, Gene T.F. Ku..sovalov was identified in Germany in 1946-47.
%e- y:arshal aleksandr int. Piovikov, in command of the Soviet Far eastern :.ir Force
.against Japan in 1945, has been the subject of numerous advebae rumors., including
that he had been shot (1946), court-martialed (early 1947), imprisoned (1948),
and that he had disappeared (1949)..
;kiarshal Sergei A. Khudyakov, C of S to iarshal Novikov in the war aguirst
Japan in 1945, wa3 rumored to have been purged in august 1946 for espionage
activities and was reported in 1947 to have been shot at some time after
the war0
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