Salka Aerodrome (also Nizhny Tagil Salka) is an aerodrome in

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located 17 km northeast of Nizhny Tagil. Until 1994 the airfield was home to the 765th Fighter Aviation Regiment (765 IAP) initially operated the Sukhoi Su-9 (Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s. The regiment replaced it in 1980 with the MiG-23P (Flogger-G).PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. From 1964-1994, the regiment was part of the 20th Air Defence Corps of the

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. The 765 IAP was disbanded in 1994. Currently the airfield used as experimental aerodrome operated by the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metal Testing.

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Soviet Air Defence Force bases Nizhny Tagil Military installations closed in 1994 {{Aviation-stub