Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It was one of nine Air Army staging bases in the Arctic for Russian bomber units.[1][2] It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region.
| Vorkuta Sovetsky
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| Vorkuta, Komi Republic in Russia | |||||||
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Tupolev Tu-95 bomber during 2011.
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| Coordinates | 67°27′56″N 064°18′28″E / 67.46556°N 64.30778°E / 67.46556; 64.30778[1] | ||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
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| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||
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| Built | 1960 (1960) | ||||||
| In use | 1960 - present | ||||||
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| Identifiers | ICAO: XUYK | ||||||
| Elevation | 192 metres (630 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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Sovetskiy was built in the early 1960s as a staging base for intercontinental Long-Range Aviation bomber strikes (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome). The airfield was first identified by Western intelligence in 1961.[3] It is maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group). The 364 OSAE (364h Independent Mixed Aviation Squadron) was based here between 1980 and 1994 with the Antonov An-12 (NATO: Cub), Antonov An-26 (NATO: Curl) and Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip).[4]
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