Markovo Airport (russian: Аэропорт Марково) is an airport located in Markovo, in the Chukotka autonomous district of

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. Starting in the 1940s, Markovo was one of eight stops on the backbone Aeroflot passenger route from

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Anadyr Anadyr may refer to: *Anadyr (town), a town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia *Anadyr District *Anadyr Estuary *Anadyr (river), a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia *Anadyr Highlands *Anadyr Lowlands *Operati ...

Military history

By 1951, US intelligence reported that an airfield for

Tupolev Tu-4 The Tupolev Tu-4 (russian: Туполев Ту-4; NATO reporting name: Bull) is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was reverse-engineered from the American Boeing B-29 ...

bombers was being constructed at Markovo.D/I USAF PROPOSED CHANGES TO INITIAL DRAFT OF SE-36
February 24, 1953, CIA-RDP79S01011A000800050003-4, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. However the Soviet Union chose instead to build several bomber staging bases along the northern coast, which could be better supplied by the

Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, ''Severnyy morskoy put'', shortened to Севморпуть, ''Sevmorput'') is a shipping route officially defined by Russian legislation as lying east of No ...

. US intelligence continued to monitor Markovo as a possible

Tupolev Tu-22M The Tupolev Tu-22M (russian: Туполев Ту-22М; NATO reporting name: Backfire) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s. According to some ...

(Backfire) staging base as late as 1980.STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATIONS RELATED ACTIVITIES SUMMARY REPORT (SANITIZED)
June 1, 1980, CREST: CIA-RDP80T01355A000100140001-2, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.

Airlines and destinations

References

Airports built in the Soviet Union Airports in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug {{Russia-airport-stub