Totskoye (also Totskoe) is an air base in

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located four kilometres southeast of

Totskoye Totskoye (russian: То́цкое) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Totsky District of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Population: During World War I, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp that became notorious ...

. It is a standard military air base with small number of revetments in separate area. There were 56 stored

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s and five operational helicopters according to Google Earth high-resolution imagery made in 2003. Google Earth images from 29-08-2012 however shows an abandoned airfield. The base was home to: * 281 IIAP (281st Instructor Interceptor Aviation Regiment) with 66

MiG-23 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generati ...

aircraft in 1991-94 * 833 IAP (833rd Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying

aircraft as of 1992). Totskoye now hosts: * 2881 BRV (2881st Reserve Helicopter Base) storing

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and Mi-24 helicopters.

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