Kapustin Yar (air base)
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Kapustin Yar Vladimirovka | |||||||
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Znamensk, Astrakhan Oblast in Russia | |||||||
Coordinates | 48°40′04″N 45°43′54″E / 48.66778°N 45.73167°E | ||||||
Type | Air Base | ||||||
Site information | |||||||
Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
Operator | Russian Aerospace Forces | ||||||
Site history | |||||||
Built | 1954 | ||||||
In use | 1954 - present | ||||||
Airfield information | |||||||
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Kapustin Yar is a
Classed as an Airfield 3rd class. The 35th independent mixed air squadron (military unit 33782) is based at the airfield,
History
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Zhitkur military airfield, located 52 km north-east of the current airfield and 125 km east of Volgograd, was used for aviation support of the area, with an unpaved runway 1,060 m (3,480 ft) long and 80 m (260 ft) wide.[2] This airfield was created near the village of the same name in the Pallas district of the Stalingrad region in the summer of 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. At the same time, up to 10 regiments of fighter, assault and bomber aviation of the 8th Air Army of the RKKA USSR Air Force were simultaneously based on the airfield.[3] In 1953, due to the expansion of the Kapustin Yar test site, the village of Zhitkur ceased to exist, residents were relocated to other locations.[4]
The 19th Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron (military unit 20669) to service the testing ground
Since 1955, the squadron aircraft began to fly to the Experimental Test Stations (OIS) of the Kapustin Yar test site located in the vicinity of
In 1956, the squadron was relocated to a newly created airfield at the present location from a dirt runway. The airfield received the conditional name Constitution .
In 1958, a concrete runway was built at the aerodrome, which made it possible to carry out flights without fail during the autumn and spring soaking season.
On 2 November 1959, the squadron was reorganized into the 158th separate mixed air regiment. The first commander of the regiment was an inspector-pilot of the Air Force of the North Caucasus Military District, a military pilot of the 1st class, Colonel SK Teterkin[8]
In 1970, the regiment received helicopters MI-8.
In 1989, the plane
In 2009, the 158th air regiment was reorganized into the 35th separate air squadron, which was transferred from
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- ^ http://grani.vspu.ru/files/publics/1358406238.pdf History of the former village of Zhitkur in the Pallasovsky district
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