Baranovichi is an air base of the Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus and formerly of the Soviet Air Force. It has the ICAO airport code UMMA. It is home to the 61st Fighter Air Base, flying

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s, and Sukhoi Su-30s. It is located to the south of the city of

Baranovichi Baranavichy ( ; be, Бара́навічы, Łacinka: , ; russian: Бара́новичи; yi, באַראַנאָוויטש; pl, Baranowicze) is a city in the Brest Region of western Belarus, with a population (as of 2019) of 179,000. It is not ...

. In 1950 the 61st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Defence Forces'

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was established at the base. The base has been in major use since November 7, 1951 when it received the 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division and 203rd TBAP and became one of the prime strategic bomber base of the early 1950s. Holm confirms the 45th TBAD arrived in November 1951, but gives the receiving base's coordinates as 53 5 51N, 26 2 50E. The 45th TBAD was under the 79th Guards Bomber Aviation Corps, and later the

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. It conducted numerous Tupolev Tu-16A sorties to the high arctic starting in the mid 1950s. It also deployed a Tu-16 to Tiksi and onward to ice station SP-6 for field trials in 1958. Baronovichi was one of nine major operating locations for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder in the mid-1960s,PROBABLE ASM ASSOCIATED CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY, SELECTED SOVIET AIRFIELDS
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CIA-RDP84T00491R000100520001-9, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, January 1, 1984. Baronovichi also hosted an interceptor regiment flying

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Foxbat aircraft in the 1980s. Several

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S of the

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(23 IAP) from Dzyomgi Airport of the

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were deployed to Baranovichi between February and April 2022. They flew sorties in the Russian invasion of Ukraine before withdrawing to Russia during the retreat from Kyiv.

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