Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge.

Lebyazhye air base

Russia / Volgograd / Petrov Val /
 ruins, abandoned / shut down, closed, former air force base

Lebyazhye (also given as Kamyshin Northwest, Lebyazh'ye, Gromovo, Kotly, and Mikhailovka) is an air base in Russia located 18 km northwest of Kamyshin and 170 km north of Volgograd. The base has an unusually wide runway and large tarmac space.

The airfield is home to the 1st Guards Instructional Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (1 Gv IAPIB) flying MiG-23, MiG-27K, and Su-24 aircraft in the mid-1990s. The 1 Gv IAPIB used to fall under the 1080 UATs PLS (1080th Training) unit. However, according to Air Forces Monthly in July 2007, it is now a direct reporting units to Russian Air Force headquarters.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   50°12'1"N   45°12'9"E
  •  171 km
  •  486 km
  •  511 km
  •  681 km
  •  711 km
  •  801 km
  •  889 km
  •  1212 km
  •  1224 km
  •  1458 km
This article was last modified 7 years ago