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List Of Military Airbases In Russia
This is a List of military airbases in Russia, including the airbases used by the Russian Air Force, Russian Naval Aviation, National Guard of Russia and aircraft repair depots. It can be compared with the List of Soviet Air Force bases; virtually no new airbase construction has taken place since 1991. The main air armies are the: * 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Southern Military District * 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Western Military District * 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Eastern Military District * 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Central Military District * 45th Air and Air Defenсe Forces Army The 45th Air and Air Defense Army is an army of the Russian Air Force, part of the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command. It is the successor to the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet. History The 45th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense o ... part of the Norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Air Force
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Astrakhan Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast (russian: Астраха́нская о́бласть, ''Astrakhanskaya oblast'', , ''Astrakhan oblysy'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southern Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Astrakhan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,010,073. Geography Astrakhan is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude. Its southern border is the Caspian Sea, eastern is Kazakhstan ( Atyrau Region and West Kazakhstan Region), northern is Volgograd Oblast, and western is Kalmykia. It is within the Russian Southern Federal District. History Astrakhan region is the homeland of the Buzhans, one of several Slavic tribes from which modern Russians evolved. They lived in Southern Russia and inhabited the area around the Buzan river. Buzan oblast was created on December 27, 1943, on parts of the territories of the abolished Kalmyk ASSR and Astrakhan Okrug of Stalingrad Oblast. Starting from the 16th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saratov Oblast
Saratov Oblast (russian: Сара́товская о́бласть, ''Saratovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,521,892. Geography The oblast is located in the southeast of European Russia, in the northern part of the Lower Volga region. From west to east its territory stretches for , and from north to south for . The highest point of Saratov Oblast is an unnamed hill of the Khvalynsk Mountains reaching above sea level. The oblast borders on: * Volgograd Oblast to the south * Voronezh and Tambov oblasts to the west * Penza, Samara and Ulyanovsk oblasts to the north; * Kazakhstan ( West Kazakhstan Region) to the east Natural resources Of particular agricultural importance are valuable agricultural ordinary and southern chernozyom areas; chestnut soils are widespread. The oblast has many water resources: besi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sennoy, Saratov Oblast
Sennoy (russian: Сенной) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Volsky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh .... Population: References Urban-type settlements in Saratov Oblast {{SaratovOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagay-Baranovka (air Base)
Bagay-Baranovka (also given as Sennoy, Sennoe, or Sennoye) is an air base in Saratov Oblast, Russia located 2 km south of Sennoy. It is a small training base, with training airspace about 5–10 km to the east and home to the 395th Independent Test Aviation Squadron of the 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov. Units on the base include the 343rd Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment (343 IIAP), equipped with Sukhoi Su-17 aircraft in 1989-91 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and MiG-29E in the early 1990s. The unit has been reported to have disbanded in 1998. However, another report says it had as many as 54 MiG-29s by 2003. The base also played host briefly to the 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s, when it returned from Mikha Tskhakaya (Senaki), Georgia in 1992; it was quickly disbanded. History The airfield was created in the early 1940s and named after the nearby village of Baranivka, located on the banks of the Bagay River. In those years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
185th Centre For Combat Application And Combat Training For The Air Force
185th may refer to: *185th (2/1st West Riding) Brigade, formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army *185th Air Refueling Squadron flies the KC-135 Stratotanker *185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), unit located at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa *185th Airborne Division Folgore, Parachute Division of the Italian Army during World War II *185th Armor Regiment (United States), consists of soldiers from the California Army National Guard *185th Aviation Brigade (United States), aviation brigade of the United States Army *185th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders), CEF, unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War *185th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment, Mixed Aviation Regiment, part of the SFR Yugoslav Air Force *185th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), the codename of one of the five main landing beaches in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 *185th Infantry Regiment (United States), combat regiment of the United States Army made up of sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrakhan
Astrakhan ( rus, Астрахань, p=ˈastrəxənʲ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in Southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression, 60 miles (100 km) from the Caspian Sea, with a population of 475,629 residents at the 2021 Census. At an elevation of below sea level, it is the lowest city in Russia. Astrakhan was formerly the capital of the Khanate of Astrakhan (a remnant of the Golden Horde), and was located on the higher right bank of the Volga, 7 miles (11 km) from the present-day city. Situated on caravan and water routes, it developed from a village into a large trading centre, before being conquered by Timur in 1395 and captured by Ivan the Terrible in 1556. In 1558 it was moved to its present site. The oldest economic and cultural center of the Lower Volga, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrakhan (air Base)
Astrakhan is a Russian Aerospace Forces air base located near Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. In August 1956, the 393rd Guards Fighter Aviation Baranovichi Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd degree Regiment was transferred to this airfield. In August 1958 the creation of the 228th Mixed Aviation Regiment (Military Unit Number 28025) began in Mozdok in the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, North Caucasus Military District. In April 1960 it moved to Astrakhan, as it was intended for combat training at the Ashuluk Range. 6.60 renamed 228th Training Aviation Regiment. The base is home to the 116th Centre for Combat Employment of Air Defence Aviation which uses the Mikoyan MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the ... under the 185th Centre for Comb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Krasnodar. The third most populous federal subject, the krai had a population of 5,226,647 as of the 2010 Census. Krasnodar Krai is formally and informally referred to as Kuban (russian: Кубань), a term denoting the historical region of Kuban situated between the Sea of Azov and the Kuban River which is mostly composed of the krai's territory. It is bordered by Rostov Oblast to the north, Stavropol Krai to the east, Karachay-Cherkessia to the south-east, and Adygea is an enclave entirely within the krai. Krasnodar Krai shares an international border with the disputed region of Georgia, Abkhazia, to the south, and borders annexed Crimea to the west, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
