Vitebsk (also Vitebsk Northeast or Andronovichi) is a former air base in northern

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

located 8 km northeast of the city of

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (, ; , ; ) is a city in northern Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vitebsk Region and Vitebsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. As of 2025, it has 358,927 inhabitants, m ...

. It was a small airfield complex with a large single tarmac. In

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times it was home to the 339th Military Air Transport Regiment (339 VTAP) flying 32

Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-1 ...

cargo jets as well as Antonov An-22 planes. The regiment was disbanded in 1996.

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Belarus, a drone warfare training hub for Moscow's proxies
Intelligence Online, March 18, 2025 (requires free registration) Soviet Military Transport Aviation Military installations of Belarus Airports in Belarus Buildings and structures in Vitebsk Vitebsk Belarusian Air Force Military installations closed in 1996 {{Belarus-transport-stub