303rd Mixed Aviation Division
Identity
Open-source order-of-battle work places the 303rd Mixed Aviation Division under Russia’s 11th Air and Air Defence Army, with the division headquarters at Khurba near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The same source places its core regiments at Tsentralnaya Uglovaya, Dzemgi, Khurba, and Chernigovka, matching the site cluster in the supplied hierarchy. ([airandspaceforces.com](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2015/July%202015/0715russia.pdf))
Fighter regiments
The division’s fighter component is anchored by regiments at Dzemgi and Tsentralnaya Uglovaya. RIA reported that 12 Su-35S were delivered to the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment at Dzemgi in February 2014; President Putin later granted the regiment the honorific “Tallinn” on January 29, 2018, and “Guards” status on November 17, 2022. At Tsentralnaya Uglovaya, RIA imagery/reporting from January 2016 showed Su-35S at the fighter regiment there and stated that MiG-31BM aircraft had already arrived; TASS later identified that formation specifically as the 22nd Fighter Aviation Regiment at Centralnaya Uglovaya, and Putin granted it “Guards” status on July 29, 2024. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20140212/994397812.html))
Strike elements
Khurba hosts the division’s bomber regiment. Air & Space Forces listed the 277th Bomber Air Regiment at Khurba in 2015 with Su-24M/M2, and reporting in 2016 stated that the regiment had begun re-equipping with Su-34 aircraft; a November 9, 2022 presidential decree awarded the regiment “Guards” status. Chernigovka is the division’s assault-aviation location: Air & Space Forces listed an attack regiment there in 2015 with Su-25SM, while later RIA and TASS reporting from the same airfield identified an Su-25-equipped assault regiment in Primorye and recorded that the 18th Assault Aviation Regiment received “Guards” status in September 2023. ([airandspaceforces.com](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2015/July%202015/0715russia.pdf))
Regional role
This basing pattern gives the division a mixed tactical-air package: fighter and interceptor assets in Primorye and Komsomolsk-on-Amur, bomber aviation at Khurba, and close-air-support aviation at Chernigovka. Open-source reporting also stated that, in August 2018, a flight of Su-35S fighters from the 303rd Mixed Aviation Division was stationed on Iturup, indicating the division’s relevance to the Kuril/Sea of Japan axis as well as the Khabarovsk-Primorye mainland approaches. ([airandspaceforces.com](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2015/July%202015/0715russia.pdf))