Централизация руководства авиационными силами Ленинградского фронта: на пути к созданию воздушных армий
Centralize management of aviation forces of the Leningrad Front: on the way to the creation of the air armies

Summary/Abstract: During the summer and autumn of 1942 the new air armies emerged in sequence gradually completely eliminate the old structure of aviation control. However, the decision to creation a new organizational structure in the Air Force of the Soviet Union was not produced momentary. From the first days of the war have been proposals to centralize aviation control. In practice, the new system has been tested in the Leningrad front in the summer of 1941. This was largely achieved through individual air force commander A. A. Novikov and addition of staff he was able to gather around him. Subsequently, becoming commander of the Red Army Air Forces A. A. Novikov proposed to extend the control system is tested on the Leningrad front on all military aircraft of the Soviet Union. This proposal was accepted in the form of the creation of air armies. In the article on the basis of two Russian archives (Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence and Russian State Archive of Social and Political History) used documents not entered in the scientific turn reconstruction the general outline of the events previous the creation of air armies. Special attention is attracted to the decisions that were made at the Leningrad front to strengthen the Air Force of the city as well as to conceptual proposals of military leaders to strengthen of the Soviet aviation in the amount influenced the formation of the final reorganization of aviation.

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