Salka Aerodrome (also Nizhny Tagil Salka) is an aerodrome in

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located 17 km northeast of

Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil ( rus, Нижний Тагил, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj tɐˈgʲil) is a classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, boundary ...

. Until 1994 the airfield was home to the 765th Fighter Aviation Regiment (765 IAP) initially operated the

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(Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s. The regiment replaced it in 1980 with the MiG-23P (Flogger-G).PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. From 1964-1994, the regiment was part of the 20th Air Defence Corps of the 4th Independent Air Defence Army. The 765 IAP was disbanded in 1994. Currently the airfield used as experimental aerodrome operated by the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metal Testing.

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Soviet Air Defence Force bases Nizhny Tagil Military installations closed in 1994 {{Russia-airport-stub