Editing Soviet Air Defence Forces (section)

===Under the Russian flag===
{{Air Forces of Russia and the Soviet Union}}
When the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union dissolved]], the air fleet of the PVO included roughly 2,200 fighters and interceptors. The personnel and equipment of many units were left in newly independent republics, although the impact of the loss was reduced by the relocation of some units back to Russia. The Russian Air Defence Forces ultimately inherited about 65% of final Soviet PVO assets.{{Sfn|Gordon|Komissarov|2012|p=185}} 

In December 1994, the [[4th Independent Air Defence Army]] at [[Ekaterinberg]] in the Urals was transformed into the 5th Independent Air Defence Corps, which in 1998 became the [[5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army]]. In accordance with a December 1994 directive, the 14th Independent Air Defence Army was reorganized as the  [[:ru:6-й_отдельный_корпус_ПВО|6th Independent Air Defence Corps]]{{Sfn|Lenskii|Tsybin|2014|pp=55–56}} with the 16th Guards, 20th, and 94th Mukden Air Defence Divisions). In 1998, the force groupings and headquarters of the PVO that had remained within [[Russia]] were merged with the [[Russian Air Force]] becoming part of the [[Moscow Air Defence District|Moscow District of Air and Air Defence Forces]], and the 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, and 14th Armies of VVS and PVO.

The '''Day of Air Defence Forces''' (''Den' Voysk PVO'') was initially established in 1975, to be celebrated on April 11. In 1980 this was changed to the second Sunday of April.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} It is still celebrated in the Russian Federation even after the 1998 merger of the Air Defence Forces with the Air Force. {{Langx|ru|Сами не летаем – другим не дадим|Sami ne letaem – drugim ne dadim|Don't fly, don't let others / If we can't fly, we won't let anyone else either|links=no|label=The unofficial motto of the PVO is}}.