Savatiya (also Kotlas South, Savati, or Savvatiya) is an air base in Arkhangelsk Oblast,

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located 29 km south of

Kotlas Kotlas (russian: Ко́тлас) is a town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: Kotlas is the third largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of population (after ...

. It is a small interceptor airfield. It was home to 445 IAP (445th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) between 1967 and 1993, which received

Tupolev Tu-128 The Tupolev Tu-28 ( NATO reporting name Fiddler) was a long-range interceptor aircraft introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. The official designation was Tu-128, but this designation was less commonly used in the West. It was the largest ...

(Fiddler) aircraft in 1967,

MiG-25 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by ...

aircraft by the late 1970s, and

MiG-31 The Mikoyan MiG-31 (russian: link=no, Микоян МиГ-31; NATO reporting name: Foxhound) is a supersonic interceptor aircraft that was developed for use by the Soviet Air Forces. The aircraft was designed by the Mikoyan design bureau as ...

by the 1990s. It is also listed as being home to 458 IAP (458th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) which flew

s in the 1990s.

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