Lodeynoye Pole (also Lodynoye Pole) is a former air base in

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located 2 km south of

Lodeynoye Pole Lodeynoye Pole (, lit. ''the field of boats'') is a town and the administrative center of Lodeynopolsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Svir River (Lake Ladoga's basin) northeast of St. Petersburg. ...

. It was home to the

177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO The 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (; Military Unit Number 10232) was a Fighter aircraft, fighter Aviation regiment (Soviet Union), regiment of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, Soviet Air Defense Forces (; PVO) during World War II and the Cold ...

between 1960 and 2009. Lodeynoye Pole initially operated the

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(ASCC: Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s. The regiment replaced it in 1980 with the

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P (ASCC: Flogger-G).PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. Around 1994 the MiG-23 was upgraded to the

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(ASCC: Flanker). On December 1, 2009, the 177th IAP was disbanded. Aircraft fit for service have been redeployed to other airfields. Until September 6, 2013, the military commandant’s office was responsible for guarding the airfield. In Lodeynoye Pole, next to the military airfield, there is an asphalt runway of the former airfield of the regional aviation of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR. Currently, this airfield is not operational and is gradually being destroyed and overgrown with young pine trees. There is an operating weather station on its territory.

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RussianAirFields.com
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