RU-1221
Vozzhayevka Air Base
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Name
Vozzhayevka Air Base
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ICAO
RU-1221
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- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
6:43 am (YAKT)
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Municipality
Vozzhayevka
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Coordinates
50° 46′ 12″ N 128° 46′ 37″ E
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Elevation
738 ft (225 m MSL)
About Vozzhayevka Air Base
Vozzhayevka (also Vozzhayevka Northeast (US)) is an air base in Amur Oblast, Russia located about 100 km southeast of Blagoveshchensk. It is a medium-sized air base located near an SS-11 missile field at Svobodnyy. During the 1980s it was one of 17 airfields hosting the Soviet Union's tactical reconnaissance aircraft regiments.
Units stationed at Vozzhayevka included the 293rd Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (293 ORAP) and the 56th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (56 APIB) flying Sukhoi Su-17M3R (ASCC: Fitter) aircraft in the late 1980s and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (NATO: Foxbat) until 1987. The regiment was part of the 1st Air Army in the Far East Military District.