32nd Separate Transport Mixed Aviation Regiment
Identification
This record most plausibly matches the 32nd Separate Transport Mixed Aviation Regiment, military unit 77979, at the military sector of Koltsovo airfield in Yekaterinburg. Russian official reporting said the Koltsovo aviation group was reorganized into a separate transport mixed aviation regiment on 2 December 2013 within the Central Military District. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/ural-news/804097))
Main base
Open reporting through 2022 still placed a CVO transport aviation regiment at Koltsovo. Public access events at the military airfield displayed regiment-associated aircraft there, and local coverage listed An-12, An-26, Tu-134, Il-18, L-410 and Mi-8-family aircraft on the site. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/15437487?utm_source=openai))
Distributed elements
A subordinate mixed aviation squadron at Kyzyl, Tuva, is directly confirmed in district reporting: it was formed on 1 March 2019 and equipped with Mi-8AMTSh-V helicopters moved from the Novosibirsk area and An-26 transports from Yekaterinburg. Older secondary order-of-battle compilations also place regiment elements at Tolmachevo/Novosibirsk and a search-and-rescue detachment at Bratsk, but I did not find recent primary-source confirmation for those detachments. ([vpk.name](https://vpk.name/news/254240_smeshannaya_aviacionnaya_eskadrilya_budet_sformirovana_1_marta_na_aerodrome_v_kyzyle_tuva-cvo.html))
Mission
The regiment’s core role is theater air transport. Official reporting in 2013 described its main task as rapid movement of personnel, weapons and military equipment; later CVO reporting shows the force also transporting command groups and mail, supporting exercises, supplying remote mountainous training areas in Tuva, and providing aviation search-and-rescue support for Soyuz launch and recovery operations from forward aerodromes including Kyzyl, Gorno-Altaysk and sites in Kazakhstan. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/ural-news/804097))
Aircraft mix
Verified open sources show a mixed fleet rather than a single-type transport unit. At formation, official reporting listed An-12, An-26, Tu-134, Tu-154, Il-18 and Mi-8; separate reporting in 2015 said the Yekaterinburg-based CVO air regiment received four L-410UVP-E20; 2022 public displays at Koltsovo still showed An-12, An-26, Tu-134, L-410 and Mi-8-family aircraft. Exact 2026 serviceable numbers are not publicly confirmed in open sources. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/ural-news/804097))