Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) was an

interceptor aircraft An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. Aircraft that are cap ...

base in Amur Oblast,

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located 8 km north of

Vernoye Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) was an interceptor aircraft base in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is close to Ukrainka, a Long Range Aviation strategic bomber base. In the ...

, in the

Svobodny, Amur Oblast Svobodny (russian: Свобо́дный) is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Zeya River, north of Blagoveshchensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 63,889 ( 2002 Census); History It was found ...

area. It is close to Ukrainka, a

Long Range Aviation Long-Range Aviation ( rus, Авиация Дальнего Действия, r=Aviatsiya dal'nego deystviya, abbr. to AДД, or ADD, and literally ''Aviation of Distant Action'') is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces responsible for delive ...

strategic bomber base. In the 1960s Orlovka was a deployment and dispersal airfield, then was upgraded in the early 1970s following an increase in military forces near the Chinese border after the Sino-Soviet split.CABLE (SANITIZED) FROM NPIC
CIA-RDP78B03826A000500020069-3, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, July 16, 1971. Orlovka is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area. The base was closed in 2001 and is since abandoned. Units stationed at Orlovka included: * 404 IAP (404th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-233P (NATO: Flogger) and then

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(NATO: Flanker). It was commissioned in 1974 and decommissioned in 2000. The 404 IAP was dissolved into 23 IAP at

Dzemgi Dzyomgi Airport (russian: Аэропорт Дзёмги) is an air base in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia located northeast of Komsomolsk-na-Amure. Dzyomgi is Komsomolsk-na-Amure's northeast side airport, handling small airliner traffic. The base is ho ...

. * 41 IAP (41st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with the Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO: Fulcrum) starting in 1987.

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