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Nagurskoye (Russian: Нагу́рское; also written as Nagurskaja) (ICAO: UODN) is an airfield in Alexandra Land in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia located 1,350 kilometres (840 mi) north of Murmansk. It is an extremely remote Arctic base and Russia's northernmost military base. [2] The base is named after Polish-Russian pilot Jan Nagórski.
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
The list includes overseas Russian airbases including those in Russian occupied Crimea. It can be compared with the List of Soviet Air Force bases; virtually no new airbase construction has taken place since 1991. The main air armies are the: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Southern Military District
Yeysk air base Krasnodar Krai Ka-27M Il-20M Tsentralny air base Rostov Oblast An-12 An-26 An-148-100E Mi-24P Mi-26 Il-20M Taganrog air base Rostov Oblast Il-76MD Kirovskoye air base Occupied Crimea: Flight Test Centre (Maritime) Feodosia and Dzhankoi Occupied Crimea: 18th Anti-Aircraft Regiment S-400; Pantsir-S1; Dzhankoi helicopter base ...
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Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It was one of nine Air Army staging bases in the Arctic for Russian bomber units. [1] [2] It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region.
Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow is rushing to re-open abandoned Soviet military, air and radar bases on remote Arctic islands. Putin's Russia in biggest Arctic military push since Soviet ...
A major new base, named the Arctic Trefoil for its three lobed structure, was constructed at Nagurskoye. It can maintain 150 soldiers for 18 months and has an area of 14,000 square meters. [50] The upgraded airbase is considered a threat to the U.S. military installation at Thule, Greenland. [51] In 2017, Russian president Vladimir Putin ...