2014年2月12號，12架全新嘅Su-35S戰機正式進入俄羅斯空軍，佢哋被編入第23殲擊航空兵團（駐紮喺哈巴羅夫斯克邊疆佢嘅傑姆吉機場）。當時正喺果度視察緊嘅俄羅斯聯邦國防部長謝爾蓋·紹伊古同聯合航空製造公司總裁米哈伊爾·波戈相出席咗喺黑龍江畔共青城加加林飛機製造廠舉辦嘅新機移交儀式。
On February 12, 2014, 12 brand-new Su-35S fighters officially entered the Russia Air Force, and they were incorporated into the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (stationed at his Demji airfield on the Khabarovsk border). Russia Federal Defense Minister Sergei ·Shoigu and United Aviation Manufacturing Corporation President Mikhail · Pogosyan, who were inspecting there at that time, attended a ceremony for the handover of the new aircraft at the Gagarin Aircraft Factory in Komsomolsk, on the banks of the Heilongjiang River.