Nivenskoye

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Nivenskoye
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Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Navy Baltic Fleet
Serves		Kaliningrad
Elevation AMSL		66 ft (20 m)
Coordinates		54°33′42″N, 020°36′12″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	8530	2600	Concrete

Nivenskoye (also Yezau) was an interceptor aircraft air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia located 17 km south of Kaliningrad. A large mile-wide taxiway ring on west side fed a series of aircraft revetments. There were remote bomber or alert revetments for about 5 aircraft. It is abandoned and in a state of decay as of 2000.

During the Cold War it was home to 689 Gv IAP (689th Guards Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23s in the 1980s and 36 Su-27P by the 1990s ^[1]. It was also home to 288 OVP (288th Independent Helicopter Regiment) flying Mi-24 K and R models and Mi-8.

Scramble.nl reports that 689 Gv IAP & 288 OVP based at Nivenskoye moved to Chkalovsk during August 2002.

[edit] References

1. ^ Aviatsiya PVO. Aviabaza KPOI.