Dzhida (air base)
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Dzhida (
Buryatia, Russia. It was located in the town of Dzhida, and featured a large fighter base with small revetment
groups scattered around the airfield.
Dzhida has been home to:
- 2 Gv BAP (2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Sukhoi Su-24M aircraft (1969 - 2010).[1][2]
- 21 BAP (21st Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 (1969 - 1983).[3]
The airfield's name has sometimes erroneously appeared as Eleagnus, the Russian form of the Latin name for the plant Elaeagnus, known as dzhida in Russian. The name Dzhida is not derived from the Elaeagnus plant, but from the Buryat language term ƶede, meaning copper.
References
- ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
- ^ "2nd Guards Orshanskiy Red Banner order of Suvorov Bomber Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ "21st Vitebskiy Red Banner order of Kutuzov Bomber Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 4 December 2022.