Akhtubinsk is a
Russian Air Force
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base located near
Akhtubinsk
Akhtubinsk (russian: Ахту́бинск; kk, Ақтөбе, ''Aqtóbe'') is a town and the administrative center of Akhtubinsky District in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River (a tributary of the Volga), nor ...
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Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
The base is home to the
929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov
The 929th State Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation named after V.P. Chkalov (929 Air Force GLITS) is a Russian aviation research and testing military institution. This is the main military aviation test insti ...
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The then-State Red Banner GK Scientific Research Institute VVS was moved to the base from
Chkalov
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov ( rus, Валерий Павлович Чкалов, p=vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕkaləf; – 15 December 1938) was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).
Early life
Chkalov was bo ...
in
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally " under Moscow"), is a federal subject of R ...
in 1960, and the 1st (fighters and fighter-bombers), 2nd (bombers), 5th (radio range), 9th (route measuring complex), and 10th (nuclear test) Scientific-Experimental Departments of the Institute were set up at Akhtubinsk that year.
In 1990 the institute received its current name.
The aerodrome was in use for testing as early as 1948; in June 1948, V. D. Lutsenko, a test pilot and
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
crashed in an aircraft of unknown type. On October 27, 1949, test pilot E.S. Greenfield died in a crash of a
La-15 aircraft at Akhtubinsk during the first show of aviation equipment. On April 9, 1963 test pilot V. I. Grotsky died during a test flight of a
Sukhoi Su-7
The Sukhoi Su-7 ( NATO designation name: Fitter-A) is a swept wing, supersonic fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union in 1955. Originally, it was designed as a tactical, low-level dogfighter, but was not successful in this role. On th ...
B fighter-bomber aircraft near Akhtubinsk airfield.
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Russian Air Force bases