Dorokhovo Bezhetsk-Dorokhov | |
Ensign: | Flag of the Russian Air Force.svg |
Ensign Size: | 90px |
Location: | Bezhetsk, Tver Oblast |
Country: | Russia |
Type: | Air Base |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Tver Oblast#Russia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Tver Oblast |
Pushpin Label: | Dorokhovo |
Ownership: | Ministry of Defence |
Operator: | Russian Air Force |
Used: | 1953 - |
Elevation: | 143m (469feet) |
R1-Number: | 13/31 |
R1-Length: | 2500m (8,200feet) |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Dorokhovo (also Bezhetsk, Bezhetsk, or Dorokhov) is a former air base in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It was a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon) interceptors.
It was home to 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment (611 IAP) flying 39 Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s.[1] It also had MiG-31 aircraft.[2] [3] From the 1960s to the 1990s the regiment was part of the 3rd Air Defence Corps of the Moscow Air Defence District.