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Buturlinovka (air Base)
Buturlinovka is a military air base of the Russian Air Force in Buturlinovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located south of the town of Buturlinovka, and features housing for around one dozen fighter aircraft. History Historically, Buturlinovka housed the 186th Instructional Shturmovik Aviation Regiment operating 45 Sukhoi Su-25 jet aircraft were stationed there during the early 1990s, and later became home to the 899th Orshansky Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the 16th Air Army operating Su-25s until the unit disbanded on 1 December 2009, after which the airbase was left vacant. It remained an air commandant's office until June 2014, when it was announced that the 899th Orshansky Guards would be re-established by 2017. During 2011, the Mikoyan MiG-29's stationed at Kursk Vostochny Airport were temporarily based at Buturlinovka for a year due to runway repairs. From December 2013, the airfield temporarily accommodated the 47th Voronezh Mixed Aviation Regiment fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buturlinovsky District
Buturlinovsky District (russian: Бутурли́новский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #87-OZ and municipalLaw #63-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Buturlinovka Buturlinovka (russian: Бутурли́новка) is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on the Ossered River, a tributary of the Don. It serves as the administrative center of Buturlinovsky District. Its population as of 2021 was 24,397. History .... Population: The population of Buturlinovka accounts for 55.3% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=May 2013 Districts of Voronezh Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kursk Vostochny Airport
Kursk Vostochny Airport (russian: Аэропорт Курск-Восточный) , also known as Khalino, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located 7 km east of Kursk. It is a medium-sized base 4 miles northeast of Kursk. Several alert pads, with civilian tarmac on the southern side of the airfield. Station history Khalino was home to: * 472 IAP (472nd Interceptor Aviation Regiment) from 4 October 1979 to 1998. Moved in from Orel, Orel Oblast, where it had been stationed from 1950 to 1979. Equipped with Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23P (NATO: Flogger) or S from 1979. Disbanded 1 May 1998. The 472nd IAP PVO was Military Unit No.61364. * 14 IAP (14th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying Mikoyan MiG-29 (SMT/UBT) (NATO: Fulcrum) aircraft, having been relocated from Zherdevka (air base). It is currently home to: * 14th Guards IAP (14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) of the 105th Guards Composite Aviation Division flying the Sukhoi Su-30 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Air Force Bases
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north-west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just , England's shortest county boundary. The county town is Lincoln, where the county council is also based. The ceremonial county of Lincolnshire consists of the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire and the area covered by the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Part of the ceremonial county is in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and most is in the East Midlands region. The county is the second-largest of the English ceremonial counties and one that is predominantly agricultural in land use. The county is fourth-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 and estimated at 20,645 in 2019. The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed buildings and five medieval parish churches. It is a frequent film location. In 2013 it was rated a top place to live in a survey by ''The Sunday Times''. Its name has been passed on to Stamford, Connecticut, founded in 1641. History Roman and Medieval Stamford The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and forded the River Welland to the west of Stamford, eventually reaching Lincoln. They also built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash. In 61 CE Boudica followed the Roman legion Legio IX Hispana across the river. The Anglo-Saxons later chose Stamford as the main town, being on a larger river than the Gwash. The place-name Stamford is first attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key Publishing
Key Publishing is a magazine publishing company specialising in aviation titles, based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. History '' Airliner World'' was launched in 1999. In 2005 it launched ''Airports of the World'', and in the same year it bought ''PC Pilot'' (originally launched in 1999), the world's best selling flight simulation magazine. In October 2009, Key Publishing bought Spain's leading aviation magazine ''Avion Revue'', and its Latin American (Mexico and Argentina) editions, formerly owned by Motor Presse - Ibérica (a division of Europe's largest publishing firm - Gruner + Jahr). This magazine, along with ''Avion & Piloto'', is published by Key Publishing Spain. In March 2010, it bought the title ''Aviation News''. ''Aviation News'' is Britain's longest established monthly aviation journal. ''Airfix Model World'' launched on 4 November 2010, in partnership with Airfix. In March 2012, Key Publishing acquired several magazines previously published by Ian Allan P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AirForces Monthly
''Air Forces Monthly'' is a military aviation magazine published by Key Publishing, and based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. It was established in 1988. It provides news and analysis on military aviation, technology and related topics. ''The Independent'' claims that "Air Forces Monthly is widely read in the MoD and in the defence industry, both in Britain and in the US." In 1997, an AFM report that a military aircraft crash at Boscombe Down in September 1994 involved a classified Aurora aircraft prompted denials from the Ministry of Defence and the United States Defense Department. Sister publications include ''Air International'', ''Air Enthusiast'', '' Airliner World'', and ''FlyPast A flypast is a ceremonial or honorific flight by an aircraft or group of aircraft. The term flypast is used in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. In the United States, the terms flyover and flyby are used. Flypasts are often tied in w ...''. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport
Khurba Airport (also given as Komsomolsk South, Khurba, Uchastok, and Kalinovka) is an air base (also used as an airport (russian: Аэропорт Хурба)) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia south of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This medium-sized base has considerable tarmac space and an extended area of revetments. It handles medium-sized airliners. Units stationed at Komsomolsk-na-Amur/Khurba include: * 277 BAP (277th Bomber Aviation Regiment) currently changing from flying Sukhoi Su-24M2s in the 1990-2000s to the Sukhoi Su-34 with the first 10 delivered. ** Deployed to Lida (air base) in Belarus as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine * 216 IAP (216th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft during 1986–1987 in addition to 277 BAP). * 26 Gv OPIB (26th Guards Independent Fighter-Bomber Regiment) flying Sukhoi Su-17M3 aircraft at the end of the Cold War. This unit operated under 1st Air Army (1 OA), i.e. Far East Air Army). History Khurba Airport began as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lida (air Base)
Lida is an air base of the Belarusian Air Force, Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus located Lida, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is home to the 116th Guards Assault Aviation Base, flying Sukhoi Su-25s and Yak-130s alongside the 206th Training Center for Aircrew with Aero L-39 Albatros, Aero L-39C Albatroses. The 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Russian Air Force with Sukhoi Su-24's from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport deployed here as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. References {{Reflist Belarusian Air Force Grodno Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An estimated 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by late May and 7.8 million fled the country by 8 November 2022, while Russia, within five weeks of the invasion, experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, eventually amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voronezh Malshevo (air Base)
Voronezh Malshevo is an air base in Voronezh Oblast of the Russian Air Force as part of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Western Military District. and Baltimore. The base is home to the 47th Composite Guards Aviation Regiment which operates two squadrons of Sukhoi Su-34's (NATO: Fullback). History Up until late 2009 it was the home of the 105th Composite Aviation Division and 455th Bomber Aviation Regiment, both with 16th Air Army/Special Purpose Command, the air forces command of the Moscow Military District. Following the air force reforms of 2009–10, it became the headquarters of the 7000th Air Base. Warfare.ru says: "unit # 23326. 7000th Guard Borisov-Pomeransk Double Red Banner Order Suvorov Airbase. Address: 394055, Voronezh. ex 105 comb div + 455 bbr, 183, 47 recce, 89 attack rgts. Planned staff 2009: 24 Su-24M, 4 An-30, 1 Mi-8, ? 2 Su-34. 2010: 2 sqdn Su-24M, 1 sqdn Su-24MR, Mig-25RB + An-30. 20.10.2011 Su-24 crashed during landing in Amur distr, pilots de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
