Strezhevoy Airport
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Strezhevoy is an airport in 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 4 km southeast of Strezhevoy
Strezhevoy
Strezhevoy is a town in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of the Ob River's canal. Population: It is served by the Strezhevoy Airport.It was founded in 1966 as a settlement near the village of Strezhevaya and was granted town status in 1978...

. It contains a large tarmac (400 x 100 m) laid out in a civilian use configuration, and services small transports. It is possible that the airfield was designed for military use 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...

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