Gvardeyskoye is an airbase of the
Russian Air Force
" Air March"
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Hvardiiske,
Simferopol Raion
Simferopol Raion ( uk, Сімферопольський район, russian: Симферопольский район, crh, Aqmescit rayonı) is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, currently illegally occupied by Russia. T ...
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Crimea
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...
, Ukraine.
The history of flying here began in the 1930s when
Polikarpov Po-2
The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2, for its initial ''uchebnyy'', 'training', role as a flight instruction aircraft) served as an all-weather multirole Soviet biplane, nicknamed ''Kukuruznik'' (russian: Кукурузник,Gunston 1995, p. 292. NAT ...
s were flown.
The base is home to the
37th Guards Composite Aviation Regiment which flies 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 ...
M (ASCC: Fencer) and the
Sukhoi Su-25
The Sukhoi Su-25 ''Grach'' (russian: Грач (''rook''); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi. It was designed to provide close air support for Soviet Gro ...
SM/25UB (ASCC: Frogfoot under the
27th Composite Aviation Division as part of the
4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
The 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army () is an air army of the Russian Air Force, part of the Southern Military District and headquartered in Rostov-on-Don.
The 4th Air Army (''4 Vozdushnaya Armiya'') was a Soviet Air Force formation and f ...
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Southern Military District
200px, Headquarters of the district at 53 Pushkinskaya Street / 43 Budenovsky avenue, Rostov-on-Don
The Southern Military District (Russian: Южный военный округ) is a military district of Russia.
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The base was home to the 43rd Independent Maritime Assault Aviation Regiment from 1990.
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Airports in Crimea
Military facilities in Crimea
Russian Air Force bases
Military installations established in the 1930s
Ukrainian airbases