Nivenskoye (also Severnyi, Uzhnyi & Yezau (US)) ( rus, Южный) is a former

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air base in

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located 17 km south of

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

. A large mile-wide taxiway ring on west side fed a series of aircraft revetments. There were remote bomber or alert revetments for about 5 aircraft. It is abandoned and in a state of decay as of 2000. Nivenskoye was a Second World War airfield, which was blown up by the Germans in 1945 during their retreat.Yezau Airfield, 6 August 1952, CIA CREST: CIA-RDP82-00457R013100280005-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. It was rebuilt by the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1950 using Soviet soldiers and German civilians. By 1951 it had a length of 1500 m (4920 ft) and was used by the Soviet Air Force. By 1957 up to 25

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(Fagot) aircraft were based at the airfield. From October 1952 Nivenskoye was home to 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (689 Gv IAP, see :ru:689-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный полк) flying the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, Mach 1951-1954; the

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 ...

and MiG-17P, October 1953-1957; the MiG-19S/P, October 1956-1977; the

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M, 1977-1989; and the Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker," a total of 36, from 1989. The regiment had received the honorary name "Sandomierz", in 1944, for participation in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation, and in the same year it was awarded the

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. The airbase was also home to 288th Independent Helicopter Regiment (288 OVP) flying

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K and R models and Mil Mi-8. 689 Gv IAP & 288th Independent Helicopter Regiment based at Uzhnyi moved to

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, also within the Kaliningrad Oblast, during August 2002.

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