Tiksi North is a former Russian military airfield located 41 km north of
Tiksi
Tiksi ( rus, Ти́кси, , ˈtʲiksʲɪ; sah, Тиксии, ''Tiksii'' – lit. ''a moorage place'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located o ...
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Bulunsky District
Bulunsky District (russian: Булу́нский улу́с; sah, Булуҥ улууһа) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty- ...
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Sakha Republic.
Described as a ghost airfield, its probable use was either as a diversion or dispersal airfield for Soviet bombers.
It was likely abandoned sometime in the early 1960s.
See also
Other abandoned arctic staging bases:
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Chekurovka
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Dresba
Aspidnoye, also referred to as Dresba and Krumaya, is an abandoned Russian military airfield
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Ostrov Bolshevik
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Tiksi West
Tiksi West (Tiksi-Zapadny) was a large air base in Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 7 km west of Tiksi. It appeared on Department of Defense navigation charts during the Cold War, and was listed as having a 13,500 ft (4100 met ...
References
Soviet Long Range Aviation Arctic staging bases
Populated places of Arctic Russia
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