Krichev is a military air base in the

Mogilev Region Mogilev Region or Mogilev Oblast or Mahiliow Voblasts ( be, link=no, Магілёўская вобласць; ''Mahiloŭskaja voblasć''; russian: link=no, Могилёвская область; ''Mogilyovskaya Oblast''), is a region (''oblast'' ...

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 ...

. It is located in

Klimavichy District Klimavichy District ( be, Клімавіцкі раён, russian: Климовичский район, ''Klimovichsky raion'') is a district in Mogilev Region, Belarus. The administrative center is the town of Klimavichy Klimavichy ( be, Клiм� ...

, 13 km east of the city of

Krychaw Krychaw or Krichev ( be, Кры́чаў, Łacinka: Kryčaŭ, ; russian: Кричев, , pl, Krzyczew) is a city in the eastern Belarusian Mogilev Region. Krychaw is the administrative center of Krychaw District. As of 2009, its population was 27 ...

. The base served the

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air defense role for the

Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

, hosted by the 28th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 2nd Air Defence Corps,

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History

Krichev had been observed by 1957 by Western

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overflights. The 28th IAP operated the

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(NATO: Fishpot) regiment in the 1960s and 1970s.PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1, 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5,

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, Washington, DC. By 1981, the regiment was one of four in the

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still operating the Su-9 but its facilities were being upgraded, and it received the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (NATO: Foxbat) in the mid-1980s. The base was closed in 1993, after the Cold War, and the aviation regiment was disbanded.Взлетные полосы ждут своего часа
. ''www.sb.by''. Jul 25, 2013.

References

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