Donskoye Naval Guards Helicopter Airbase

 military airbase, helicopter, heliport, closed / former military

396th Independent ASW Helicopter Squadron (Donskoye)

Donskoye (also Bryusterort or Donskoe) is an air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 1 km east of Donskoye (formerly Gross Dirschkeim). It is a very old airfield probably dating back to World War II, nearly at Russia's most extreme western point. The facility contains 25 aircraft pads, and appears to be in a severe state of decay. Its original length was 2000 m, but only 500 m remains. Its pads are occupied by a number of helicopters.

Units stationed at Donskoe in the early 1990s included 396 OKPLVP (396th Independent Shipborne Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment) flying x22 Ka-27 helicopters; and 745 OPLVP (745th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment) flying 15 Mi-14 helicopters and 5 Ka-25 helicopters.

Available information on the compsition of the newly formed 7054th, Naval AF Bdge. does not include any information on the disposition of this former helicopter sqdrn. or the redeployment of its complement of Ka-27P units, which can still be seen in place in the 2005/2007 split GE satellite image.

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