Lodeynoye Pole (air base) explained

Lodeynoye Pole
Ensign:Flag of the Russian Air Force.svg
Ensign Size:90px
Location:Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Oblast
Country:Russia
Type:Air Base
Pushpin Map:Russia Leningrad Oblast#Russia
Pushpin Map Caption:Shown within Leningrad Oblast
Pushpin Label:Lodeynoye Pole
Ownership:Ministry of Defence
Operator:Russian Air Force
Used:1960 -
Icao:XLPO
Elevation:17m (56feet)
R1-Number:04/22
R1-Length:2500m (8,200feet)
R1-Surface:Concrete

Lodeynoye Pole (also Lodynoye Pole) is a former air base in Leningrad Oblast, Russia located 2 km south of Lodeynoye Pole. It was home to the 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO between 1960 and 2009.

Lodeynoye Pole initially operated the Sukhoi Su-9 (ASCC: Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s. The regiment replaced it in 1980 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23P (ASCC: Flogger-G).[1]

Around 1994 the MiG-23 was upgraded to the Sukhoi Su-27 (ASCC: Flanker).[2]

On December 1, 2009, the 177th IAP was disbanded. Aircraft fit for service have been redeployed to other airfields. Until September 6, 2013, the military commandant’s office was responsible for guarding the airfield.

In Lodeynoye Pole, next to the military airfield, there is an asphalt runway of the former airfield of the regional aviation of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR. Currently, this airfield is not operational and is gradually being destroyed and overgrown with young pine trees. There is an operating weather station on its territory.

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20170123204647/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81t00380r000100980001-5 PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
  2. Web site: 177th Moskovskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO. Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. 9 December 2022.