ULKS
Savvatiya Air Base
VFR
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Name
Savvatiya Air Base
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ICAO / GPS
ULKS / ULKS
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
12:11 pm (MSK)
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Municipality
Kotlas
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Coordinates
60° 59′ 41″ N 46° 52′ 11″ E
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Elevation
318 ft (97 m MSL)
About Savvatiya Air Base
Savatiya (also Kotlas South, Savati, or Savvatiya) (ICAO: ULKS) is a former Russian Air Force air base in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia located 29 km south of Kotlas. It is a small interceptor airfield. It was home to 445th Interceptor Aviation Regiment (445 IAP) between 1967 and 1993, which received Tupolev Tu-128 (ASCC: Fiddler) aircraft in 1967, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (ASCC: Foxbat) aircraft by the late 1970s, and Mikoyan MiG-31 (ASCC: Foxhound) by the 1990s. It is also listed as being home to 458th Guards Interceptor Aviation Regiment (458 IAP) which flew MiG-31s in the 1990s.
The base was also used by the 470th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment from 1993.