Marienkhof (German) (Dunayevka (Russian), Kottslyauken (US)) is a former air base in

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located 10 km south of Pionersky. It was in use during the 1950s and has been abandoned near the end of the

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. It has a spartan layout, unimproved pads, if any, and an alert strip feeding directly onto the runway threshold. In the mid-1950s up to 75

Ilyushin Il-28 The Ilyushin Il-28 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-28; NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet aircraft, jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such ai ...

(ASCC: Beagle) tactical bombers were based at Marienkhof. The 51st Maritime Torpedo Aviation Regiment was based her

plus a reconnaissance regimen

There was a significant drawdown in forces by 1962, by which aircraft were rarely observed at the airfield except for the occasional Il-28,196204_MISSION COVERAGE INDEX MISSION 9031 27-28 FEBRUARY 1962 1-3 MARCH 1962, CREST: CIA-RDP78B04560A000100010064-4, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. indicating Marienkhof became a reserve airfield. It is now the location of

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References

* http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/821iap.htm - 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment briefly reported at Pioniersky Soviet Air Force bases Soviet Naval Aviation bases Airports in Kaliningrad Oblast {{Russia-mil-stub