Mukachevo is an air base in
Ukraine
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located 6 km southwest of
Mukachevo
Mukachevo ( uk, Мукачево, ; hu, Munkács; see name section) is a city in the valley of the Latorica river in Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in Western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion (district), the city ...
. During the
Cold War
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it served as a small interceptor base. The airfield had a loop taxiway with many parking revetments. The air base has since been moved to
Stryi Air Base
Stryi (Ukrainian Стрий, also Stryi, or ''Stryy'') was an air base in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine located 4 km southwest of Stryi. It was a large base with 6 km of parking area taxiways and numerous revetments.
Units that have been sta ...
, leaving the airfield standing abandoned and empty.
Airfield today
On 27 April 2021
Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
The Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast is the Chief of Local State Administration (Ukraine), head of executive branch for the Zakarpattia Oblast.
The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of ...
Anatoliy Poloskov
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,
Zakarpattia Oblast Council chairman Oleksiy Petrov, representatives of the State Agency for Infrastructure Projects and the Mukachevo Territorial Community signed a quadripartite Memorandum of Cooperation on the design and construction of a new airport in
Zakarpattia Oblast
The Zakarpattia Oblast ( uk, Закарпатська область, Zakarpatska oblast) is an administrative oblast located in western Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its administrative centre is ...
on the territory of
Mukachevo
Mukachevo ( uk, Мукачево, ; hu, Munkács; see name section) is a city in the valley of the Latorica river in Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in Western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion (district), the city ...
.
The new airport would replace
Uzhhorod International Airport as Zakarpattia's main air link.
Its proposed advantages over
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the B ...
will be a more centralized location, as well as its location completely within Ukrainian airspace (current flights to and from Uzhhorod have to cross over into
Slovak territory).
[A new airport for Transcarpathia will be built in Mukachevo]
Econominska Pravda (27 April 2021)
See also
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Mukachevo Radar Station
Mukachevo radar station is a Ukrainian radar station, originally built during the Soviet period for providing early warning of ballistic missile attack. Currently it is the property of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. It is located in Shipk ...
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