sentences:  He was succeeded by General Colonel Stepan Krasovsky (1952–53), Lieutenant General Stepan Rybanov (June 1953 – 1959), and, later, Lieutenant General Igor Dmitriev () (1983–1989) and Nikolai Antoshkin () (1989–93).Also part of the Moscow District air forces was the 4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel at Lipetsk.The 16th Air Army was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command.