Andreapol is an air base in Tver Oblast

Tver Oblast

Tver Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Tver. From 1935 to 1990, it was named Kalinin Oblast after Mikhail Kalinin. Population: Tver Oblast is an area of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 located 3 km east of Andreapol

Andreapol

Andreapol is a town and the administrative center of Andreapolsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located in the upper reaches of the Western Dvina River, west of Moscow, on the Valdai Hills...

. It was built as an interceptor base. It is home to 28 Gv IAP (28th Guards Interceptor Aviation Regiment), which flew MiG-23P aircraft in the early 1990s and soon acquired MiG-29 aircraft, which continue in service to this day .

A MiG-29 crashed on May 12, 2005 near the air base.