Slavgorod
Encyclopedia
Slavgorod is a town in Altai Krai
, Russia
, located between Lake Sekachi and Lake Bolshoye Yarovoye. Population: 48,000 (1975).
During the Cold War
it was the site of Slavgorod air base
.
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
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 between Lake Sekachi and Lake Bolshoye Yarovoye. Population: 48,000 (1975).
During 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...
it was the site of Slavgorod air base
Slavgorod (air base)
Slavgorod is an air base in Russia located 5 km south of Slavgorod. It is an abandoned, decaying airfield that has a large taxiway pattern. The latest Google Earth high-resolution imagery accessed in 2006 shows that the aerodrome is unusable and is in a severe state of decay.It was probably...
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