During the Cold War and up until 1993 Lida was home to the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division of the Soviet Air Force.
Federal Aviation Administration | 101st Airborne Division | Football League First Division | International Civil Aviation Organization | RAF Bomber Command | NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship | Football League Second Division | Joy Division | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 82nd Airborne Division | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Coldstream Guards | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | bomber | Texas Ranger Division | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Cypriot First Division | aviation | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Scots Guards | Grenadier Guards | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | North American Aviation | Hong Kong First Division League |
It was home to 953 BAP (953rd Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft from 1978 subordinated to 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division (1 GvBAD) in Lida (1960-1980) and then 32nd Bomber Aviation Division (1980-1992).