This List of Soviet Air Force base

Air Force Base

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s shows the state of the Soviet Air Force

Soviet Air Force

The Soviet Air Force, officially known in Russian as Военно-воздушные силы or Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily and often abbreviated VVS was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces...

 and Russian Air Force

Russian Air Force

The Russian Air Force is the air force of Russian Military. It is currently under the command of Colonel General Aleksandr Zelin. The Russian Navy has its own air arm, the Russian Naval Aviation, which is the former Soviet Aviatsiya Voyenno Morskogo Flota , or AV-MF).The Air Force was formed from...

 during the last decade of the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 to the mid 1990s. Dates shown indicate years during which units and aircraft

Aircraft

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 were known to be at that airbase

Airbase

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. If none is indicated, the date is unknown.

In Russia the airbase naming convention seems to be to use the nearest village name, or in the case of a large city, use a numerical designator, i.e. Severomorsk-2. Quite often they are just referred to as, variously, "Tiksi aerodrome" and "Tiksi air base" (uncapitalized). This is also the convention that is used in declassified FOIA

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 documents in the CIA archive website. Therefore the construction 'X Air Base' or 'X Air Force Base' in regard to the USSR and Russian Federation appears to be incorrect.

Forces in Poland, Hungary and Germany

• 4th Air Army
  4th Air Army
  The 4th Air Army was a Soviet Air Force formation and from 1992 to 2009 was part of the Russian Air Force. From 1998 the army was designated the 4th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence. It was first established on 22 May 1942 from the Air Forces of the Soviet Southern Front, and fought on the...
  
  , Poland
• Kolobzheg (Колобжег) 871st Fighter Regiment (Su-27), Smolensk 1994.
• 36th Air Army, Hungary: 14th Guards Fighter Regiment (MiG-29) Kiskunlacháza, 1. guards fighter-bomber regiment Kunmadaras, 515. fighter regiment Tököl, 396. guards helicopter regiment Kalocsa, 5. guards fighter regiment Sármellék
• 16th Air Army, Germany
• Koethen 73rd Guards 'Stalingrad' Fighter Regiment (MiG-29), Shaykovka 1994. Former 296th Fighter Regiment; Lydia Litvyak
  Lydia Litvyak
  Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Лидия Владимировна Литвяк, (Moscow, August 18, 1921 – Krasnyi Luch August 1, 1943), also known as Lydia Litviak or Lilya Litviak, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II...
  
   flew with this unit.

Soviet Air Defence Forces, Western USSR

• 2nd Army of the PVO, HQ Minsk (Feskov et al. 2004 p. 150)
  • Krichev. 28 IAP. 38 MiG-25.
  • Baranovichi (Brest) 2-4 PVO, 61 IAP. 13 MiG-25, 25 MiG-23
  • Machulishchi (Minsk) 2-4 PVO, 201 IAP. 38 MiG-23.

• pol Nizhnim Tagilom (Sverdlovsk). MiG-23. Salka Airport
  Salka Airport
  Salka Airport is an airport in Russia located 17 km northeast of Nizhny Tagil. This airfield was home to the 765 IAP , which used Su-9 aircraft from the 1950s until 1980, then transitioned to the MiG-23P. The unit was disbanded in 1994.- See also :* Salka Airport...
  
   was home to 765 IAP.

Moscow District of the PVO

• 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...
  
  (Tver). 28th (Guards) Fighter Regiment, Moscow District (MO) PVO, 38 MiG-23.
• Vyaz'ma. MO PVO, 45 IAP. MiG-23P.
• Morshansk (Tambovo). 153rd Fighter Regiment, MO PVO, 18 MiG-31, 4 MiG-25. (1994; only MiG-31s)
• Yefremov (Tula). MO PVO, 191 IAP. 38 MiG-23.
• Smolensk (air base)
  Smolensk (air base)
  Smolensk North Airport is a decommissioned military airbase in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located 4 km north of the city of Smolensk. It is now used as Smolensk's sole airport for civil and military flights...
  
  . MO PVO, 401 IAP. MiG-23P.
• Orlovka. MO PVO, 404 IAP. MiG-23P, Su-27.
• Tunoshna (Yaroslavl). MO PVO, 415 IAP. 38 MiG-23. (still present 1994)
• Khalino (Kursk). MO PVO, 472 IAP. 38 MiG-23, still present 1994.
• Bezhetsk (Dorokhovo
  Dorokhovo
  Dorokhovo is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It is a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space...
  
  ) (Tver). MO PVO, 611 IAP. 39 Su-15, Su-27 1994.
• Pravdinsk (Nizhiy-Novgorod). 786th Fighter Regiment (MiG-25, MiG-31), 1994. MO PVO, 786 IAP. 31 MiG-31, 5 MiG-25.
• Khotilovo (Tver). MO PVO, 790 IAP. 38 MiG-25.
• Stupino (Moscow). MO PVO, 436 OTAP. Mi-8.

Air Forces of the Moscow Military District

Moscow Military District

The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...

Source Feskov et al. 2004, p. 145

• Shatalovo
  Shatalovo
  Shatalovo is an air base in Smolensk Oblast, Russia located 8 km south of Pochinok. It is a large hardened air base with pads for 19 bombers and 15 fighters in addition to a small amount of tarmac space...
  
  . 1046th Training Center (MiG-25, Su-17, Su-24), 1994.
• Shatalovo. 164th Separate Guard Reconnaissance Regiment (MiG-25, Su-24), 1994.
• 9th Fighter Aviation Division (Kubinka)
  • Shatalovo. 32nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (MiG-23MLD)
  • Kubinka (air base)
    Kubinka (air base)
    Kubinka is an air base in Moscow Oblast, Russia located 5 km northwest of Kubinka. In close proximity to Moscow, the Kubinka facility showcases the best of the Russian Air Force to the general public....
    
    . 234th Guards Fighter Regiment (MiG-29).
  • Migalovo. 274th Assault Regiment (Su-17), 1994.
• Sennoy. 343rd Fighter Training Regiment (MiG-23, MiG-29), 1994.

Other units in the Moscow Military District (Vasquez)

• Buturlinovka
  Buturlinovka (air base)
  Buturlinovka is an air base in Russia located 4 km south of the town of Buturlinovka. There are two small alert pads at either end of runway for 10 fighters. It has probably been adapted for civilian use....
  
  . 186th Attack Training Regiment (Su-25), 1994.
• Stupino Airfield
  Stupino Airfield
  Stupino was an air base in Russia located 5 km east of Stupino. It was a military transport base until the mid-1990s, home to 436 OTAP under the command of Soviet Anti-Air Defense flying Mi-8 helicopters. It is now a general aviation airport....
  
  . 436th Separate Transport Regiment (Mi-8), 1994.
• Tambov
  Tambov
  Tambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow...
  
  . 4255th Reserve Aircraft Depot.

Air Forces Training Centres

• Savostleyka/Savasleyka
  Savasleyka
  Savasleyka is an air base in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.It is located near the village of Savasleyka in Kulebaksky District, between the towns of Vyksa , Kulebaki and Navashino .The name of the base is also often transcribed into English as...
  
  . 148th Combat and Type Training Center (Su-27, MiG-31, Mi-8), 1994. 54th Fighter Regiment (Su-27), arrived c.1994 (disbanded 2005-7).
• Borisoglebsk
  Borisoglebsk (air base)
  For the airport in Kazan see Kazan Borisoglebskoye.Borisoglebsk is an air base in Voronezh Oblast, Russia located 6 km east of Borisoglebsk. It is a small military airfield....
  
  . 160th Fighter Training Regiment (MiG-21, MiG-29), 1994.
• Totskoye
  Totskoye
  Totskoye is a village in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Totsky District. Population: 7,201 ....
  
  . 281st Fighter Training Regiment (MiG-23), 1994. (Volga Military District)

6th Army of the PVO

• Vainode
  Vainode
  Vaiņode is a former USSR air base in Latvia, located south of Skrunda. It was abandoned in 1993. It is only from the border with Lithuania....
  
  (Latvia). 6th PVO Army, 54 IAP. 38 Su-27.
• Lodeynoye Pole (Leningrad). 6 PVO, 177 IAP. 38 MiG-23. (Still active in 2006 flying Su-27s)
• Gromovo (Sakkola) (Leningrad). 31 MiG-31. (Active until 2002, 180th Fighter Air Regiment now disbanded)
• Pärnu Airport
  Pärnu Airport
  Pärnu Airport is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 4 km from the city of Pärnu.In October 1937 Pärnu town council designated an area of 0.28 km² for the building of an airport. Operations at the new airport began in 1939....
  
  (Estonia). 6 PVO, 366 IAP & 655 IAP. MiG-23, 42 MiG-23.
• Tallinn Airport (Estonia). 6 PVO, 384 IAP. MiG-23.
• Haapsalu (Estonia). 6 PVO, 425 IAP. 38 MiG-23.
• Feskov lists 458 IAP, Kotlas, with 6th Army of the PVO
• Tapa
  Tapa Airfield
  Tapa is an air base in Estonia located 3 km southwest of Tapa. During the Cold War it was home to 656 IAP which flew MiG-23 aircraft. In 1987, interceptor aircraft were dispatched from Tapa to intercept Mathias Rust's Cessna 172 in a famous Cold War incident ....
  
  (Estonia). 6 PVO, 656 IAP. 38 MiG-23.
• Nivenskoye
  Nivenskoye
  Uzhnyi was an interceptor aircraft air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia located 17 km south of Kaliningrad. A large mile-wide taxiway ring on west side fed a series of aircraft revetments. There were remote bomber or alert revetments for about 5 aircraft...
  
  -Yezau (Kaliningrad). 6 PVO, 689 IAP. 36 Su-27.
• Feskov lists 941 IAP twice in 6th Army of the PVO and 10th Army of the PVO

Air Forces of Leningrad Military District

Leningrad Military District

The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...

• • Siversky
    Siversky
    Siversky is an urban locality in Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Oredezh River...
    
    . 67th Bomber Regiment (Su-24), 1994.
  • Monchegorsk
    Monchegorsk (air base)
    Monchegorsk Air Base is a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia located 13 km northeast of Monchegorsk and 11 miles southwest of Olenya. It hosted the 174 Gv IAP flying MiG-25PDS aircraft in the 1980s and MiG-31 interceptors in the 1990s...
    
    . 98th Separate Reconnaissance Regiment (MiG-25, Su-17), 1994.
  • Smuravyevo-G'dov. 722nd Bomber Regiment (Su-24), 1994.

10th PVO Army, Arctic

Arctic

The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...

Source Feskov et al. 2004 and Vasquez

• Norilsk (Krasnoyarskiy Kray). 10 PVO, 57 IAP. Su-15. (Alykel Airport
  Alykel Airport
  Alykel Airport is a large airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located 35 km west of Norilsk. Alykel is the only functional airfield around Norilsk. It handles medium-sized airliners and is serviced by 24-hour operations...
  
  )
• Amderma
  Amderma Airport
  Amderma Airport is a former interceptor base in Arctic Russia, near Novaya Zemlya, located 4 km west of Amderma . It is a simple airfield built on a spit along the ocean, with some tarmac space...
  
  (Novaya Zemlya). 72nd Fighter Regiment (MiG-31), 1994. 10 PVO, 74 IAP. 31 MiG-31.
• Monchegorsk (Murmansk). 10 PVO, 174 IAP. 29 MiG-31, 6 MiG-25.
• Topoduzheme (Karelia). 10 PVO, 265 IAP. 39 Su-15.(Vasquez)/Poduzhemye
  Poduzhemye
  Poduzhemye is an air base in Karelia, Russia located 16 km west of Kem. It is an interceptor airfield which became operational in 1957 under the 265 IAP which flew Su-15 and Su-27 aircraft. Aircraft from this base forced down Korean Air Flight 902, a Boeing 707, in 1978...
  
  . 265th Fighter Regiment (Su-27), 1994. (Vasquez & Feskov)
• Afrikanda
  Afrikanda air base
  Afrikanda is a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is located just north of the village of the same name.Though it is built for fighter operations with 30 revetments, it has largely served the interceptor aircraft role...
  
  (Murmansk). 431st Fighter Regiment (Su-27), 1994. 10 PVO, 431 IAP & 470 IAP. 39 Su-15, Su-27.
• Savatiya (Kotlas
  Kotlas
  Kotlas is a town in the southeast of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . It also serves as the administrative center of Kotlassky District, by which it is...
  
  ) (Arkhangelsk). 10 PVO, 445 IAP. 41 MiG-25. (Base still active 2003 flying MiG-31s with the 458th Fighter Regiment?)
• Talagi
  Talagi Airport
  Talagi Airport is an international airport serving Arkhangelsk, Russia, located 11 kilometers outside the city. In 2001 it had 105,797 passengers and 921 tonnes of cargo. The airport was founded on February 5, 1963...
  
  (Arkhangelsk). 518th Fighter Regiment (MiG-31). 10 PVO, 518 IAP. 31 MiG-31. Regiment disbanded 1998.
• Letneozerskiy (Karelia). 10 PVO, 524 IAP. 39 MiG-25. still in place 1994.
• Rogachevo
  Rogachevo
  Rogachevo is a military air base on Novaya Zemlya, Russia located 9 km northeast of Belushya Guba. It was originally used as a staging base for intercontinental Long Range Aviation bomber flights...
  
  (Novaya Zemlya). 641st Fighter Regiment (Su-27), 1994. 10 PVO, 641 IAP. 32 Su-27, 2 Mi-8.
• Kilp Yavr
  Kilpyavr
  Kilpyavr may refer to:* Kilpyavr, Murmansk Oblast, a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia* Kilpyavr , a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia...
  
  (Murmansk). 941st Fighter Regiment (Su-27), 1994. 10 PVO, 941 IAP. 38 Su-27. (Active in 2006 still flying Su-27s)
• Besovets
  Petrozavodsk Airport
  Petrozavodsk Airport is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement . It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.The airfield has seen military use as an...
  
  (Karnliya). 159th Fighter Regiment (Su-27), 1994. MiG-25. (still active flying Su-27s) Feskov notes 991 IAP, MiG-25P, in 1988. (159 IAP relocated from Poland later).

Black Sea

Black Sea

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• 8th Army of the PVO, HQ Kiev (Feskov et al. 2004 p. 150)
  • Belbek
    Sevastopol International Airport
    "Belbek" Sevastopol International Airport is AN airport in Belbek, near Sevastopol, Ukraine.- History :The airfield was first constructed in June 1941, during the first year of World War II. Initially it housed a military fighter aviation unit...
    
    (Crimean). 8 PVO, 62 IAP. 39 Su-15TM.
  • Kirov (Crimean). 8 PVO, 136 IAP. Su-27.
  • Vasylkiv (air base)
    Vasylkiv (air base)
    Vasylkiv was an interceptor aircraft base during the Cold War in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine located 7 km north of Vasylkiv. It is a medium-sized fighter base with numerous revetments....
    
    (Kiev). 8 PVO, 146 IAP. 41 MiG-25.
  • Stryy/Stryi
    Stryi (air base)
    Stryi is an air base in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine located 4 km southwest of Stryi...
    
     (L'vov) 179 IAP. 43 MiG-23.
  • Kramatorsk (Donets). 8 PVO, 636 IAP. 49 Su-15TM.
  • Chervonoglinskaya/Арциз (Odessa). 8 PVO, 737 IAP. 36 MiG-23.
  • Zaporozh'ye (Zaporzhskaya). 8 PVO, 738 IAP. MiG-25DP.
  • Lake/Ozerne
    Ozerne (air base)
    Ozerne is an air base in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine located 11 km southeast of Zhytomyr...
    
     (Zhitomir) 2-4 PVO, 894 IAP. 38 MiG-23.
  • Dnepropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk). 8 PVO, 933 IAP. 40 MiG-25.

• Mirgorod. 8 PVO, 831 IAP. Su-27.
• Zhulyany (Kiev). 8 PVO, 223 OSAP. An-24, An-26, Mi-8.
• Taganrog. 963rd Attack Training Regiment (Su-17), 1994. 6236th Aircraft Handling Plant, 1994.

19th PVO Army, primarily Caucasus

Caucasus

The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...

• Source Feskov et al. 2004, p. 152 and Vasquez
• Nasosnaya. 19 PVO, 50 IAP. MiG-25PDS.
• Nasosnaya (Baku). 19 PVO, 82 IAP. 38 MiG-25. (Feskov: unknown location)
• Rostov-on-Don. 19 PVO, 83 IAP. 40 MiG-25.
• Sandar/Marneuli
  Marneuli
  Marneuli is a small city in the Kvemo Kartli region of southern Georgia and administrative center of Marneuli District that borders neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia.-Population:...
  
  . 19 PVO, 166 IAP. 40 Su-15TM.
• Bombora (Gudauta
  Gudauta
  Gudauta is a town in Abkhazia and a centre of the eponymous district. It is situated on the Black Sea, 37 km northwest to Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia....
  
  ). 19 PVO, 171 IAP. Su-15TM. - up until 1982. Then transferred to Ugolnye Kopi, Chukotia Autonomous Okrug. Base became home to another regiment flying Su-27s.
• Privolzhskiy/Volga. 19 PVO, 209 IAP. Su-27, MiG-23.
• Astrakhan. 19 PVO, 393 IAP. 38 MiG-23.
• Gudauta
  Gudauta
  Gudauta is a town in Abkhazia and a centre of the eponymous district. It is situated on the Black Sea, 37 km northwest to Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia....
  
  . 19 PVO, 529 IAP. 34 Su-27. (Feskov: location 'SO')
• Krymskaya (Crimea). 19 PVO, 562nd Fighter Regiment 35 Su-27, 1994.

North Caucasus Military District

• Kotelnikovo. 704th Training Regiment (L-39), 1994.
• Kuskovskaya. 797nd Training Regiment (MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-27), 1994.
• Armavir. 713rd Training Regiment (MiG-23, Mi-8), 1994.
• Maykop. 761st Training Regiment (MiG-21, MiG-23), 1994.
• Rostov-na-Donu. 83rd Fighter Regiment (MiG-25), 1994. 359th Separate Transport Squadron (Mi-26, Mi-8), 1994.
• Astrakhan. 116th Combat Training Center (MiG-23, MiG-29, Mi-8), 1994. 209th Fighter Regiment (MiG-23, Su-27), 1994.
• Tihoretsk. 627nd Training Regiment (L-39), 1994.
• Krasnodar. 802nd Training Regiment (Su-22, Su-24, Su-25, Mi-8), 1994.
• Primorsko-Akhtarsk. 960th Training Regiment (L-39), 1994.
• Volgograd. Katcha Air Force Academy, 1994. 706th Training Regiment (L-39), 1994.
• Mikhailovka/Lebyazhiye. 1st Attack Training Regiment (MiG-23, MiG-27, Su-24), 1994.
• Morozovsk. 143rd Bomber Regiment (Su-24), 1994. Feskov: Kopitnari, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1988

11th Air Army

11th Air Army

The 11th Air Army is a unit of the Russian Air Force, which was located in the Russian Far East and Pacific Coast area, and its zone of responsibility covered the Far East Military District....

 - Far East Military District

Source Feskov and Vasquez

• Artem (Primorskiye). 11 PVO, 22 IAP. MiG-23.
• Zolotaya Dolina (Primorskiye). 11 PVO, 47 IAP. Su-27.
• Dzemgi (Komsomol'sl-na-Amure). 11 PVO, 60 IAP. Su-27.
• Khabarovsk (Khabarovsk). 11 PVO, 301 IAP. MiG-23.
• Sovetskaya Gavan (Khabarovsk). 11 PVO, 308 IAP. MiG-23.
• Dolinsk-Sokol
  Dolinsk-Sokol
  Dolinsk-Sokol is a military air base in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia located 8 km south of Dolinsk. It is a small base with no hardened areas. It existed before June 1966 according to declassified KH-7 satellite images...
  
  (Sakhalin). 11 PVO, 365 IAP. MiG-31, Su-27.
• Iturup (Burevestnik Airport
  Burevestnik Airport
  Burevestnik is a military air base on Iturup Island, Russia, establishing the nation's presence on the disputed Kuril Islands with the largest airfield in the region. It is also the former Soviet Union's most remote interceptor base, home of 387 IAP...
  
  ). 11 PVO, 387 IAP. MiG-23.
• Chuguyevka
  Chuguyevka
  Chuguyevka is a military air base in Primorski Krai, Russia. The base's primary objective was to scramble aircraft against SR-71 flights over Vladivostok...
  
  (Primorskiy Kray). 11 PVO, 513 IAP. MiG-31, MiG-25. (Vasquez says 530 IAP)
• Dolinsk-Sokol. 11 PVO, 777 IAP. MiG-23 (Feskov; not listed in Vasquez)
• Yelizovo-Petropavlovsk(Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
  Yelizovo Airport is an airport located in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Its runway is long enough to accommodate a fully loaded Boeing 747 aircraft...
  
  ) (Kamchatka). 11 PVO, 865 IAP. MiG-31.

12th Army of the PVO (Turkestan Military District

Turkestan Military District

The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was...

)

• Source Feskov et al. 2004, p. 152 and Vasquez
• Chirchik-Andizhan (Uzbekistan). 12 PVO, 9 (Guards) IAP. 32 Su-27.
• Aktepe-Bezmein (Ashkabad). 12 PVO, 152 IAP. MiG-23M, MiG-25PD.
• Nebit-Dag/Krasnovodsk (Turkmenia). 12 PVO, 179 IAP. MiG-23M.
• Lugovoe (Kazakhstan). 12 PVO, 715 IAP. MiG-23M.

Siberia/East Central

• 14th Army of the PVO (Feskov et al. 2004, p. 154)
  • Omsk (Chkalovsk) (Omsk). 14 PVO, 64 IAP. MiG-31. Closed 1991.
  • Bratsk Airport
    Bratsk Airport
    Bratsk Airport is an airport in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located north of Bratsk. It is a mixed use airfield, providing 32 parking spaces for medium-sized airliners, as well as a large number of branched fighter revetments....
    
    (Irkutsk). 14 PVO, 350 IAP. MiG-31.
  • Zhaneysmey (Semipalitinsk Airport). 14 PVO, 356 IAP. MiG-31.
  • Kupino (Omsk). 14 PVO, 849 IAP. MiG-23.
  • Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk). 14 PVO, 712 IAP. MiG-31.

• 4th Army of the Air Defence Forces (Feskov et al. 2004, p. 150)
  • Danilov (Samarskaya) 4 PVO, 681 IAP. 38 MiG-23, 1994.
  • Bobrovka (Samarskaya) 4 PVO, 683 IAP. 38 MiG-23, 1994.
  • Dombarovsky
    Dombarovsky
    Dombarovsky is an interceptor aircraft base in Orenburg Oblast, Russia located 6 km northwest of the village of Dombarovsky, near Yasny...
    
    (Orenberg). MiG-23. 763 IAP
  • Bolshoye Savino Airport
    Bolshoye Savino Airport
    Bolshoye Savino Airport is an international airport in Perm Krai, Russia located 16 km southwest of Perm, in the village of Bolshoye Savino. It is the only airport in Perm Krai with regular scheduled passenger flights. The majority of flights are between Perm and Moscow...
    
    (Perm
    Perm
    Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
    
    ). 764th Fighter Regiment (MiG-25), 1994. 4 PVO, 764 IAP. 38 MiG-23 (later MiG-31).

• 30th Air Army (Feskov et al. 2004, p. 140)
  • Ukkurey
    Ukkurey
    Ukurey is an air base in Chitinskaja Oblast, Russia located 24 km southwest of Chernysevsk. It is a medium-size base with 2 parallel taxiways, tarmacs, and 12 revetments...
    
    . 193 GV. Mig-23RB reconnaissance.
  • Dzhida
    Dzhida
    Dzhida is an air base in the Lake Baikal region of Russia. It is a large fighter base with small revetment groups scattered around the airfield.It has been home to:...
    
    . 21 GV. Su-24.

• Aleysk (air base)
  Aleysk (air base)
  Aleysk is an air base in Altai Krai, Russia located 6 km west of Aleysk. It comprises the remains of a small airfield, apparently razed during the 1990s to make way for farmland....
  
  (Altai). 14 PVO, 812 IAP. MiG-23.
• Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo. 14 PVO, 813 IAP. Su-15TM.
• Bezrechnaya. 14 PVO, 22 IAP. Su-15TM.

Long Range Aviation

Long Range Aviation

Long Range Aviation was the branch of the Soviet Air Forces tasked with long-range bombardment of strategic targets with nuclear weapons. During the Cold War, it was the counterpart to the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force....

• Dyagilevo
  Dyagilevo
  Dyagilevo is an air base in Ryazan Oblast, Russia located 3 km west of Ryazan. It has served as a training center for Russia's strategic bomber force....
  
  (Ryazansk). 49 UTBAP. Tu-22M, Tu-95MS, Tu-9, L-39C, L-29.
• Ryazan
  Ryazan
  Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...
  
  . TBAP. Tu-95U and L-39C as of 1994. 43rd Combat and Type Training Center (Tu-22M and L-29).
• Shaykovo (Kaluga). 52 ITBAP. Tu-22M3, Tu-16.
• Belaya Tserkov (Kiev). 251 ITBAP. Tu-22M, Tu-16, Tu-22.
• Nezhin (Kiev). 199 ODRAP. Tu-22R, Tu-22RDK, Tu-22K, Tu-22
• Zyabrovka (Gomel). 290 ODRAP. Tu-22RDM, 28 Tu-22R.
• Uzin (Kiev). 1006 TBAP, 409 APSZ. Tu-95MS, Tu-95, Il-78.
• Mozdok (Osetia). 121 TBAP, 182 TBAP. Tu-22M as of 1994. Tu-95MS16, Tu-95MS6.
• Pryluki
  Pryluky (air base)
  Pryluky is an air base in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine located 6 km west of Pryluky. This airfield was Ukraine's primary Tupolev Tu-160 bomber base . There are revetments for 20 large aircraft.Pryluky accepted USSR's first Tu-160 in April 1987, building its fleet up to 19 by 1994...
  
  (Chernigov). 184 TBAP. Tu-160, Tu-134UBL.
• Poltava (Poltava). 185 TBAP. Tu-22M3.
• Lake (Zhitomir). 341 TBAP. Tu-22M2, Tu-22PD.
• Machulishki (Minsk). 121 TBAP. Tu-22M.
• Baranovichi (Brest). 203 TBAP. 30 Tu-22, Tu-22PD.
• Bobruysk (Mogilev). 200 TBAP. 15 Tu-22M, 15 Tu-16.
• Stryi
  Stryi (air base)
  Stryi is an air base in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine located 4 km southwest of Stryi...
  
  (L'vov). 260 TBAP. Tu-22M3, Tu-16.
• Raadi Airfield
  Raadi Airfield
  Tartu Air Base is a former air base in Estonia located 4 km northeast of Tartu. It is a fairly extensive base with 24 large revetments and over 30 small ones. It was home to 132 TBAP which flew Tupolev Tu-16 and Tupolev Tu-22M aircraft...
  
  , Tartu
  Tartu
  Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual and cultural hub, especially since it is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university. Situated 186 km southeast of Tallinn, the...
  
  . 132 TBAP. Tu-22M3, Tu-16.
• Bolbasovo (Orsha) (Vitebsk). 402 TBAP. 20 Tu-22M3.
• Soltsy-2
  Soltsy-2
  Soltsy-2 is an air base in Novgorod Oblast, Russia located 2 km north of Soltsy and 72 km southwest of Novgorod...
  
  (Novgorod). 840 TBAP. Tu-22M3 as of 1994.
• Spassk-Dalniy. 219 ODRAP. Tu-16R, Tu-16Z. (Spassk-Dalny
  Spassk-Dalny
  Spassk-Dalny , sometimes called Spassk, is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Prikhankayskaya Flatland on the coast of Khanka Lake. Population:...
  
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• Semipalitinsk (Kazhakstan). 1223 TBAP, 1226 TBAP. Tu-95MS, Tu-95M.
• Ukrainka (air base)
  Ukrainka (air base)
  Ukrainka is one of Russia's largest strategic Long Range Aviation bases in the Far East. Located in Amur Oblast, Russia, 28 km north of Belogorsk, it is a major nuclear bomber base, with large tarmacs and nearly 40 revetments.In 1955, Ukrainka was one of only six Soviet bases capable of handling...
  
  (Amur). 40 TBAP, 79 TBAP. Tu-95K, Tu-95KM.
• Belaya
  Belaya (air base)
  Belaya is a significant strategic air base in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located 18 km northwest of Usolye-Sibirskoye and 85 km northwest of Irkutsk...
  
  (Irkutsk). 303 TBAP, 1225 TBAP. Tu-22M as of 1994.
• Vozdvizhenka (Primorskiy). 444 TBAP. Tu-16.
• Zavitinsk (Chita). Tu-22K.
• Engels-2
  Engels-2
  Engels Air Force Base is a strategic air base in Russia located east of Saratov. Engels is a major bomber operations base, and is Russia's sole operating location for the Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers. The base contains a runway and about 10 large revetments...
  
  (Saratov). 200 TBAP, 1096 TBAP, 1230 APSZ. Tu-160 and Tu-134UBL (post-1994). Tu-22, Il-78, ZMD, ZMS-2.
• Dolon
  Dolon (air base)
  Dolon is an air base in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan that served as a major Cold War bomber base with significant tarmac space and over 50 revetments. Dolon Southwest, a former airfield 32 km to the south, no longer exists.In 1955, Dolon was one of only six Soviet bases capable of handling the...
  
  . 1223 GV, 1226 GV. Tu-95MS, Tu-95M.

Military Transport Aviation

• Fergana. 194 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Pskov
  Pskov Airport
  Pskov Airport is an airfield in Pskov Oblast, Russia located 6 km southeast of Pskov. It is a medium air base with 27 large revetments in a complex, sprawling taxiway layout. The civilian terminal area services 13 medium/large planes and 20 small planes...
  
  . 334 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Tula. 374 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Seshcha. 566 GV, 235 GV. Il-76, An-124.
• Ulyanovsk. Il-76, An-22.
• Kirovokan. Il-76, An-22.
• Smolensk
  Smolensk (air base)
  Smolensk North Airport is a decommissioned military airbase in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located 4 km north of the city of Smolensk. It is now used as Smolensk's sole airport for civil and military flights...
  
  . 103 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Novgorod. 110 GV. Il-76.
• Vitebsk. 339 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Zaporozhye. 37 GV. An-22.
• Krivoy Rog. 338 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Melitopol. 25 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Dzhankoy. 369 GV. An-22.
• Ivanovo. 81 GV. An-22.
• Panevezhis. 117 GV. An-22.
• Kedaynyay. 128 GV. Il-76, An-22.
• Shyaulyay. 196 GV. Il-76.
• Omsk-Chkalovsk. 70/353/354 GV. Il-62, Il-76, Il-86, An-12, An-26, An-24, Tu-134, Tu-154.
• Tagenrog. 708 GV. Il-76.

Uncategorized

• Marinovka. 168th Bomber Regiment (Su-24), 1994.
• Migalovo. 8 GV. An-22, An-12.
• Belashov. Belashov Air Force Academy (Mi-8), 1994.
• Kapustin Yar. 235th Separate Squadron (Mi-8), 1994.