Yeysk Airport is an airport located near the city of

Yeysk Yeysk (russian: Ейск) is a port and a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the shore of the Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov. The town is built primarily on the Yeysk Spit, which separates the Yeya River from the Sea of Azov. P ...

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. The base is home to the 859th Centre for Combat Application and Crew Training for Naval Aviation of

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. It was the location of the 959th Bomber Air Regiment, part of the

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. The regiment has now been reorganised as an aviation base, part of the new 4th Command of Air Forces and Air Defence. Yeysk has a mixed military/civilian airfield ( :ru:Ейск (аэропорт)), home to the Yeysk Military Institute during the

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and the 10th Mixed Aviation Division (

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) during the 1990s. After the disbandment of the 10th Mixed Aviation Division the headquarters of the 1st Guards Stalingrad, Svirsky Composite Air Division arrived. Also at the airport based aviation group Yeisk Higher Military Institute, equipped with planes L-39. In addition, the 959th Bomber Regiment was previously based at the airfield, which was part of the 1st Guards Composite Air Division. The 959th Bomber Aviation Regiment was previously the 959th Training Aviation Regiment. In September 2009, due to the transfer of the airfield from the Air Force to the Navy, the regiment was disbanded, and its members were part of the aircraft Su-24 relocated to Morozovsk airfield (6970th Air Base, 7th Brigade of Aerospace Defence). On 1 February 2010, the 859th Naval Aviation Training Center under the leadership of Major-General Alexei Serdyuk was open at the airfield. To ensure the educational process training units will be relocated from the

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(

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) and the village of Kacha. For service center from the previously disbanded and civilian staff will be involved in more than one thousand people.

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