Varfolomeyevka (also given as Varfolomeyevka South) is an air base in

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. During the 1980s it was one of 17 tactical reconnaissance aircraft bases in the Soviet Union, and one of two such bases in the Far East region along with its sister base Vozzhayevka.STATUS OF SOVIET TACTICAL RECONNAISSANCE FORCES USSR/EASTERN EUROPE/AFGHANISTAN(SANITIZED)
March 22, 1984, CIA-RDP84T00491R000101240001-9, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. The base is home to the 799th Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron flying the

Sukhoi Su-24 The Sukhoi Su-24 ( NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. It wa ...

MR (NATO: Fencer). During the 1960s the primary aircraft assigned were

Ilyushin Il-28 The Ilyushin Il-28 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-28; NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet aircraft, jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such ai ...

R (NATO: Beagle). By 1984 the aircraft had been modernized with 20 to 30

Yakovlev Yak-28 The Yakovlev Yak-28 (russian: Яковлев Як-28) is a swept wing, turbojet-powered combat aircraft used by the Soviet Union. Produced initially as a tactical bomber, it was also manufactured in reconnaissance, electronic warfare, intercept ...

R (NATO: Brewer-D/E) and 2 to 16

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, De ...

R (NATO: Fishbed-H) reconnaissance jets. During the 1980s the Soviet Union was replacing these aging aircraft with its third-generation tactical reconnaissance aircraft, the

Sukhoi Su-17 The Sukhoi Su-17 (''izdeliye'' S-32) is a variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed for the Soviet military. Its NATO reporting name is "Fitter". Developed from the Sukhoi Su-7, the Su-17 was the first variable-sweep wing aircraft to ent ...

MR (NATO: Fitter), but it is unknown whether any were assigned to Varfolomeyevka. In the first decade of the 21st century the airfield hosted regiments of the Russian

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. An unpaved airfield given as Varfolomeyevka Southwest () existed 2 km north of Varfolomeyevka South in 1960s Western intelligence documentsPHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT CHRONOLOGY OF AIRFRAME PLANT 116 ARSENYEV, USSR
CIA-RDP02T06408R001100010020-6, January 1, 1968, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. and was still visible in 1984 Landsat imagery.

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