Dombarovsky (also given as Dombarovskiy and Tagilom) is a military airbase northwest of the village of Dombarovsky, near

Yasny Yasny (russian: Я́сный; masculine), Yasnaya (; feminine), or Yasnoye (; neuter) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Yasny, Orenburg Oblast, a town in Orenburg Ob ...

in Russia's Orenburg Oblast. Operated by the Soviet Air Forces and later by the

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, it hosted

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squadrons and hosts an ICBM base (which has been adapted for commercial satellite launches) with a supporting helicopter base. The site is divided into three sites: * The former main runway and dispersals: * The current ICBM base: * The current ICBM support helicopter base: home to the 84th Independent Helicopter Squadron of the

13th Red Banner Rocket Division The 13th Orenburg Red Banner Rocket Division ( Military Unit Number 68545) is a military formation of the 31st Rocket Army, Strategic Missile Forces, located in Yasny, ZATO Komarovsky, Orenburg Oblast. The deployment site for the division was ...

Interceptor base

The facility featured three revetment compounds. The 412th Fighter Aviation Regiment (412 IAP) flew from the base with Sukhoi Su-9 (Fishpot) aircraft in the early 1970s. The regiment replaced it in 1978 with the

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generati ...

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February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. The 412 IAP disbanded in 1993. Other reporting of the

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(763 IAP) flying MiG-23 aircraft in 1991 appears to be incorrect. The 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment was, it appears from more recent data, flying from

Yugorsk-2 Yugorsk Sovetsky (also Pionerskiy, Komsomolskiy-2, or Yugorsk-2) is an air base in Russia located 11 km southwest of Yugorsk. The 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (763 IAP) was formed here in 1952 and initially used the Yakovlev Yak-9 unti ...

ICBM base

Dombarovsky is also the home of the 13th Dombarovsky Red Banner Division,

31st Missile Army 31st Rocket Army (russian: 31-я ракетная армия) is one of the three rocket armies within Russian Strategic Rocket Forces headquartered in Orenburg. The 31st Rocket Army was formed on 8 June 1970, on the base of the 18th Separate Rock ...

of the Strategic Rocket Forces. The base was built during the mid-60s along with the majority of the Soviet ICBM bases. The first base commander was Major-General Dmitri Chaplygin.Dombarovskiy (Yasny) ICBM site
Up to 10 units of Strategic Rocket Forces were based in the area, each with anywhere from 6 to 10 operational silos. At the peak of operations, Dombarovsky maintained a total of 64

silo A silo (from the Greek σιρός – ''siros'', "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store fermented feed known as silage, not to be confused with a grain bin, which is used ...

s on full alert. By 2002, according to the Russian press, the number had dropped to 52. The missiles deployed in the region were primarily the RS-20 type and its sub-variants. On December 22, 2004, the Rocket Forces conducted from the base a test launch of an R-36M2 to the

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Commercial launches

With the conversion of the R-36M ICBM for use as a satellite

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, the Dnepr system, Dombarovsky has launched a number of commercial payloads. These civilian launches are operated by the Russian Air Force on behalf of the launcher's operator, Russian/Ukrainian consortium Kosmotras. Kosmotras calls the facility Yasny launch base, and has constructed additional facilities necessary for commercial satellite launch operations, including clean room integration facilities.

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