| Dombarovsky Yasnaya | |
| Ensign: | Flag of the Strategic Missile Forces.png |
| Ensign Size: | 90px |
| Location: | Yasny, Orenburg Oblast |
| Country: | Russia |
| Type: | Air Base |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Orenburg Oblast#Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Orenburg Oblast |
| Pushpin Label: | Dombarovsky |
| Ownership: | Ministry of Defence |
| Operator: | Strategic Rocket Forces |
| Used: | 1953-present |
| Icao: | XWTD |
| Elevation: | 265m (869feet) |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| H1-Number: | 04/22 |
| H1-Length: | 210m (690feet) |
| H1-Surface: | Concrete |
Dombarovsky (also given as Dombarovskiy and Tagilom) is a military airbase 5km (03miles) northwest of the village of Dombarovsky, near Yasny in Russia's Orenburg Oblast. Operated by the Soviet Air Defence Forces and later by the Russian Air Force, it hosted fighter interceptor squadrons and hosts an ICBM base (which has been adapted for commercial satellite launches) with a supporting helicopter base.
The site is divided into three sites:
The facility featured three revetment compounds.
The 412th Fighter Aviation Regiment (412 IAP PVO) flew from the base from August 1949 with the La-11, MiG-15, and MiG-17 to 1962.[3] By the 1970s it was flying the Sukhoi Su-9 (Fishpot) aircraft. The regiment replaced it in 1978 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23M (Flogger-B).[4] From 1953-60 it reported to the 101st Fighter Aviation Division PVO, and then to the 19th Air Defence Corps of the 4th Independent Air Defence Army. It disbanded in 1993.
Other reporting of the 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (763 IAP) flying MiG-23 aircraft in 1991[5] appears to be incorrect. The 763rd Fighter Aviation Regiment was, it appears from more recent data, flying from Yugorsk-2.
Dombarovsky is also the home of the 13th Dombarovsky Red Banner Division, 31st Missile Army of the Strategic Rocket Forces. The base was built during the mid-60s along with the majority of the Soviet ICBM bases.
The first base commander was Major-General Dmitri Chaplygin.[6] Up to 10 units of Strategic Rocket Forces were based in the area, each with anywhere from 6 to 10 operational silos. At the peak of operations, Dombarovsky maintained a total of 64 silos on full alert. By 2002, according to the Russian press, the number had dropped to 52. The missiles deployed in the region were primarily the RS-20 type and its sub-variants.
On 22 December 2004, the Rocket Forces conducted from the base a test launch of an R-36M2 to the Kamchatka Peninsula.[7]
With the conversion of the R-36M ICBM for use as a satellite launch vehicle, the Dnepr system, Dombarovsky has launched a number of commercial payloads. These civilian launches are operated by the Russian Air Force on behalf of the launcher's operator, Russian/Ukrainian consortium Kosmotras. Kosmotras calls the facility Yasny launch base, and has constructed additional facilities necessary for commercial satellite launch operations, including clean room integration facilities.
| Launch | Date (UTC) | Vehicle | Payload | Launch pad | Result | Remarks / References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 July 2006 | Dombarovsky | Success | Bigelow Aerospace payload, in a 550 km, 64.5 degree inclination orbit | |||
| 2 | 28 June 2007 | Dombarovsky | Success | Bigelow Aerospace payload, orbit nearly identical to Genesis I | |||
| 3 | 1 October 2008 | Dombarovsky | Success | Launched for GISTDA | |||
| 4 | 15 June 2010 | Dombarovsky | Success | ||||
| 5 | 17 August 2011 | Dombarovsky | Success | ||||
| 6 | 22 August 2013 | Dombarovsky | Success | South Korea's satellite in LEO orbit[8] | |||
| 7 | 21 November 2013 | Dombarovsky | Success | 32 satellites, most of them cubesats[9] | |||
| 8 | 19 June 2014 | Dombarovsky | Success | 37 satellites[10] | |||
| 9 | 6 November 2014 | Dombarovsky | Success | Japanese satellites[11] | |||
| 10 | 25 March 2015 | Dombarovsky | Success | South Korea's satellite in LEO orbit[12] |