Nasosnaya Air Base is a

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in the municipality of

Hacı Zeynalabdin Hacı Zeynalabdin (also, Hacı Zeynalabdin Tağiyev, Nasoslu, Nasosnaya, Nasosnyy, and Nassosny) is a village and municipality in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the contin ...

, near the city of

Sumqayit Sumqayit (or Sumgait; ; , ) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about away from the capital Baku. The city had a population of 427,000 at the beginning of 2024, making it the List of cities in Azerb ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

. In July 1940, the

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became part of the 27th Fighter Aviation Division of the Transcaucasus (ZKVO) Air Force at the Nasosnaya airfield. Two squadrons re-equipped from I-15bis to

Polikarpov I-153 The Polikarpov I-153 ''Chaika'' () is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage, the I-153 fought in the Soviet-Japanese combats in Mongolia and was one of the major Soviet fighter types ...

biplane fighters. The 82nd Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO of the

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was stationed at the base for decades, possibly since 1945. Since 1977 it flew

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a Supersonic aircraft, supersonic Interceptor aircraft, interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the Flight airspeed record, fastest military aircraft to enter service ...

long-range interceptors. Overnight on 9-10 June 1992, large numbers of Soviet aircraft were flown from what was now Azerbaijan to Russian territory. Azerbaijan however managed to completely capture the 38

PDS fighter-interceptors of the 82nd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces at the Nasosny airfield, as well as five MiG-25P and MiG-25RB aircraft that were being repaired at the 210th Aviation Repair Plant of the Air Defence Forces located there. The 82nd Fighter Aviation Regiment may have been disbanded in 1993, but MiG-25s continued to be operated by the

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for several years afterwards.

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