Aleysk is an air base in Altai Krai

Altai Krai

Altai Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative center is the city of Barnaul...

, Russia

Russia

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 located 6 km west of Aleysk

Aleysk

Aleysk is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Aley River , southwest of Barnaul. Population: 32,000 . It was host to Aleysk air base, and a division of the Strategic Rocket Forces....

. It comprises the remains of a small airfield, apparently razed during the 1990s to make way for farmland.

During the 1970s or 1980s it was home to 812 IAP (812th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23MLD aircraft.

The Aleysk area was once the home to a division of the Strategic Rocket Forces

Strategic Rocket Forces

The Strategic Missile Troops or Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or RVSN RF , transliteration: Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, literally Missile Troops of Strategic Designation of the Russian Federation) are a military branch of the Russian...

, the 41st Guards Lvovsko-Berlinskaya orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division which the 812 IAP may have been designated to protect. There were 30 silos for RS-20/SS-18 'Satan' ICBMs in the area, but from late 2000 through 2002, the silos were destroyed in accordance with US/Soviet arms reduction treaties. The process was managed by US Government contractors under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program and observed/verified by United States Air Force

United States Air Force

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 representatives according to START I

START I

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 elimination requirements. The final regiment went off duty on 31 August 2001, and the Division was disbanded on 1 December 2001.

The SRF's Aleysk military garrison area, which included housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and a large amount of other equipment, is now home to the 122nd Motor Rifle Division of the Siberian Military District

Siberian Military District

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's Ground Forces

Russian Ground Forces

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Sources

• 'All 30 of the Silos which contained RS 20 nuclear ICBMs that are famous throughout the world under the name 'Satan', have been destroyed in Altay Kray', Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moscow, 24 January 2002, p.9, via Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-SOV-2002-0124.

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