Aleysk (air base)

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Aleysk
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Serves		Aleysk
Elevation AMSL		676 ft / 206 m
Coordinates		52°29′0″N 082°42′0″E / 52.48333, 82.7
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	6562	2000	Concrete

Aleysk is an air base in Altai, Russia located 6 km west of Aleysk. It comprises the remains of a small airfield, apparently razed during the 1990s to make way for farmland.

During the 1970s or 1980s it was home to 812 IAP (812th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23MLD aircraft.

The Aleysk area was once the home to a division of the Strategic Rocket Forces, which the 812 IAP may have been designated to protect. There were 30 silos for RS-20/SS-18 'Satan' ICBMs in the area, but in late 2001/early 2002, the silos were destroyed in accordance with US/Soviet arms reduction treaties. The process was observed by United States Air Force representatives.

The SRF's Aleysk military garrison area, which included housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and a large amount of other equipment, is now home to the 122nd Motor Rifle Division of the Siberian Military District's Ground Forces.

[edit] Sources

• 'All 30 of the Silos which contained RS 20 nuclear ICBMs that are famous throughout the world under the name 'Satan', have been destroyed in Altay Kray', Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moscow, 24 January 2002, p.9, via Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-SOV-2002-0124.