RU-9129 Vorkuta Sovetskiy Air Base VFR

  • Name
    Vorkuta Sovetskiy Air Base
  • ICAO
    RU-9129
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    9:37 pm (MSK)
  • Municipality
    Vorkuta
  • Coordinates
    67° 27′ 47″ N 64° 18′ 24″ E
  • Elevation
    630 ft (192 m MSL)

About Vorkuta Sovetskiy Air Base

Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It was one of nine Air Army staging bases in the Arctic for Russian bomber units. It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region.

Sovetskiy was built in the early 1960s as a staging base for intercontinental Long-Range Aviation bomber strikes (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome). The airfield was first identified by Western intelligence in 1961. It is maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group). The 364 OSAE (364h Independent Mixed Aviation Squadron) was based here between 1980 and 1994 with the Antonov An-12 (NATO: Cub), Antonov An-26 (NATO: Curl) and Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip).

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