Pribytki
Zyabrovka (also Pribytki) is a military air base located 16 km southeast of Gomel, Gomel Region, Belarus. From November 1951 to July 1957 the 50th Air Army of Long-Range Aviation included the 144th Fighter Aviation Division with its headquarters at Mogilev, Mogilev Oblast, Belorussian SSR. The division's 439th Fighter Aviation Regiment was flying MiG-15s and MiG-17s during that period from Zyabrovka. The regiment disbanded on 1 April 1958. By the early 1960s Tupolev Tu-16, Tupolev Tu-16R aircraft were flying from the base. The airfield was renovated in 1963. It received the Tu-22R around 1966, and by 1967 had 24 based there. Pribytki was one of nine major operating locations for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder in the mid-1960s. The reconnaissance aircraft were tasked with operations in the Baltic and northern Europe. From 1973 into the 1980s pilots from Libya and Iraq trained in the Tu-22 here. The Tu-22 units were disbanded in 1994 and the aircraft sent to Engels-2 for disposal ...
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Airports In Belarus
This is a list of airports in Belarus, grouped by type and sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. See also * Transport in Belarus * Belarusian Air Force * List of airports by ICAO code: U#UM - Belarus (and Kaliningrad, Russia) * Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Europe#Belarus References * * * – includes IATA codes * – ICAO codes and coordinates * – IATA codes, ICAO codes and coordinates {{List of airports in Europe Belarus Airports Airports Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...