Step Olovyannaya | |
Ensign: | Flag of the Russian Aerospace Forces.svg |
Ensign Size: | 90px |
Location: | Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai |
Country: | Russia |
Type: | Air Base |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Zabaykalsky Krai#Russia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Zabaykalsky Krai |
Pushpin Label: | Step |
Ownership: | Ministry of Defence |
Operator: | Russian Aerospace Forces |
Controlledby: | 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army |
Used: | 1948 - present |
Icao: | XIAS |
R1-Number: | 09/27 |
R1-Length: | 2500m (8,200feet) |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Step (also Olovyannaya) is an air base in Chita, Russia located 14 km northwest of Yasnogorsk. It is a large air base with two revetment areas and numerous military fortifications. It is near an SS-11 missile field that was dismantled in the mid-1990s.
The 849th Assault Aviation Regiment, part of the 253rd Assault Aviation Division, was stationed at Step up until 1956.
Units stationed at Step/Olovyannaya include:
The base appears to have been closed after a boiler room fire in December 2009. Thereafter, the base was reopened and the 266th Independent Shturmovik Aviation Regiment was reformed with at least two squadrons of Sukhoi-25s in 2019.[2] The regiment by this time had been shifted into the Eastern Military District's 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.