Vozzhayevka

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Vozzhayevka
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Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Serves		Vozzhayevka
Elevation AMSL		738 ft (225 m)
Coordinates		50°46′12″N, 128°46′36″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	8202	2500	Concrete

Vozzhayevka (also Vozzhayevka Northeast (US)) is an air base in Amur Oblast, Russia located about 100 km southeast of Blagoveshchensk. It is a medium-sized air base located near an SS-11 missile field at Svobodnyy.

An Il-76MD destined for Vozzhayevka crash-landed at Astrakhan on June 20, 2000.

Units stationed at Vozzhayevka include:

• 293 ORAP (293rd Independent Aviation Reconnaissance Regiment) or 293 OPIB (293rd Independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R aircraft in the late 1980s ^[1] and the MiG-25 until 1987. The regiment was under 1 OA (1st Air Army, i.e. Far East Air Army).

1. ^ 37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK. Brinkster.com.