Smarhon (air base)
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Smarhon was a Soviet Air Force
base in Belarus
located 8 km northwest of Smarhon
. It was a small 1950s airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.
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...
base in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
located 8 km northwest of Smarhon
Smarhoń
Smarhoń is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. It is located at . It was the site of Smarhoń air base, now mostly abandoned. Smarhoń is located 107 km from the capital, Minsk....
. It was a small 1950s airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.