Pravdinsk (air base)
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Pravdinsk Air Base was an air base in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: The oblast is crossed by the Volga River. Apart from Nizhny Novgorod's metropolitan area, the biggest city is Arzamas...

, Russia
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 located 5 km northwest of Balakhna
Balakhna
Balakhna is a town and the administrative center of Balakhninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, north of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 33,500 .-Overview:...

 and 38 km northwest of Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

 (formerly Gorky). It was named after the nearby town of Pravdinsk which has since been annexed by Balakhna.

It is a small air base with a few taxiways and tarmacs. Google Earth
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 high-resolution images show that airfield has been vacated by the military; only one small twin-engine prop plane is found.

Units that were stationed at Pravdinsk include 786 IAP (786th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) which had 5 MiG-25 aircraft in the 1970s and upgraded to 31 MiG-31 aircraft in the 1980s .

In 2004, after five year of disuse, Pravdinsk Airfield (now more often referred to as Istomino Airfield (Аэродром Истомино), after the nearby village) saw an aircraft again.
 
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