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Suntar Airport is an airport, and possible former air base, serving and located north of Suntar,
Suntarsky District Suntarsky District (russian: Сунта́рский улу́с; sah, Сунтаар улууһа, ''Suntaar uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of t ...
, in the
Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...
of
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. It is a fairly extensive airfield. The large long tarmac area suggests that it was used for deployments of attack or bomber aircraft into the Arctic regions. There is also a Suntar Khayata mountain range on the
Kolyma Highway The R504 Kolyma Highway (russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма», ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road throu ...
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* http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/russia/Suntar.htm Airports built in the Soviet Union Airports in the Sakha Republic {{Russia-airport-stub