8th Air Defence Army

The 8th Army of the Air Defence Forces was a Soviet military formation established in 1960. Army headquarters was in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.

In 1988 it comprised the 49th and 60th Air Defence Corps.

Fighter Regiments of the 8th Army PVO 1988 (Source Feskov et al.)

49th Air Defence Corps, 1988
HQ: Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, 3.86 - 6.92
 * 636th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast)
 * 933rd Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Dnepropetrovsk-Kaydaki, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)(MiG-25PD)- taken over by Ukraine 1.6.92. Disbanded 15.5.96.
 * 146th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Vasilkov, Kiev Oblast)
 * 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Vasilkov, Kiev Oblast)
 * 148th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
 * 212th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast)
 * 138th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)
 * 276th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Svetlovodsk, Kirovograd Oblast)
 * 392nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Uman, Cherkassy Oblast)
 * 613th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Krivoi Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)
 * 508th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast)
 * 317th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Lugansk, Lugansk Oblast)
 * 138th Radio-Technical Brigade (Vasilkov, Kiev Oblast)
 * 164th Radio-Technical Brigade (Kharkov, Kharkov Oblast)
 * 95th Communications Center (Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)

In June 1992 the corps was taken over by Ukraine.

60th Air Defence Corps

 * 738th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The army as a whole was on Ukrainian territory when the Soviet Union dissolved and became the basis for the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces. From January 24, 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, 28th Air Defense Corps, previously subordinate to 2nd Air Defence Army was transferred under the 8th Air Defence Army.