Buturlinovka is a military

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of the

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Buturlinovsky District Buturlinovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #87-OZ and municipalLaw #63-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative cen ...

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. It is located south of the town of

Buturlinovka Buturlinovka () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on the Ossered River, a tributary of the Don River (Russia), Don. It serves as the administrative center of Buturlinovsky District. Its population as ...

, and has housing for around one dozen fighter aircraft.

History

From 1952 the base housed the 186th Training Aviation Regiment (186-й учебный авиационный полк (186-й уап)) from the 1970s flying the MiG-21. In October 1990 the regiment became a Instructional Shturmovik Aviation Regiment operating 45

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attack aircraft. It was then was renamed the 899th Orshansky Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the

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operating Su-25s until the unit disbanded on 1 December 2009, after which the airbase was left vacant. It remained an air commandant's office until June 2014, when it was announced that the 899th Orshansky Guards would be re-established by 2017. During 2011, the

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's stationed at

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were temporarily based at Buturlinovka for a year due to runway repairs. From December 2013, the airfield temporarily accommodated the 47th Voronezh Mixed Aviation Regiment from Voronezh Malshevo during the repair of the runway. From April 2022 some Russian military aircraft deployed to bases in Belarus moved to this base as part of the

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such as the 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment which deployed to Lida (air base) from their home base at

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References

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