Vetrovoye Air Base
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AMSL 59 ft / 18 m | | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°15′6″N 148°18′42″E / 45.25167°N 148.31167°E | ||||||||||
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  Vetrovoye Location in Sakhalin Oblast  Vetrovoye Vetrovoye (Japan)  Vetrovoye Vetrovoye (Russia)  Vetrovoye Vetrovoye (Asia) | |||||||||||
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Vetrovoye (also Sopochny Southwest) is a former Soviet Naval air base on
Sakhalin Island. The project was commissioned by Soviet Navy commander in chief Sergey Gorshkov
and completed in the mid-1960s, at which point the 50th Aviation Cavalry Regiment was relocated from Sakhalin to Vetrovoye.
At the end of the Cold War the airfield fell into disuse, and Google Earth high-resolution imagery shows the airfield to be in poor condition. The outline of the runways and tarmac is still visible from satellite imagery.
Notes
- ^ Memoirs of Admiral N. N. Amelko, Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet, http://www.38brrzk.ru/public/amelko-vospominaniya/. Retrieved 2014-10-21.