Uka Airport
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Uka Airport is an airfield in Kamchatka Krai, 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 11 km northwest of Uka
Uka (Russia)
Uka was a rural locality in Karaginsky District of Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Soviet Union, located near the mouth of the Uka River, on the shore of the Bering Sea. It was served by Uka Airport. The village was abolished on December 13, 1974 as depopulated....

. It is probably a civilian airfield, but the configuration and runway length suggests that it may have been a military airfield during the 1950s or 1960s. This airfield was used during the Second World War by US airplanes on their way to Siberia for Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...

program.
Near the airfield is a very big old antenna built for the Russian space programme in 1950s.
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