Smarhon (also Smorgon and Smorgon Northwest) is a former Soviet Air Forces base in Belarus located 8 km northwest of Smarhonʹ. It was a small airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to the northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.
Smarhonʹ | |||||||
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| Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus | |||||||
  Smarhonʹ Shown within Belarus | |||||||
| Coordinates | 54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E / 54.52333°N 26.30667°E | ||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1956 | ||||||
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| Elevation | 170 metres (558 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).[1]
References
edit- ^ "405th Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
External links
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