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Chelyabinsk Shagol Airport (also Bakal) (ICAO: USCG) is an airport in Russia located in the northwest part of Chelyabinsk. It was the first airport in Chelyabinsk, but now all passenger service is carried out by Chelyabinsk Balandino Airport, and Shagol Airport is used by the local pilots training school. In August 2007 it was used in military exercises of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. It was a military bomber training base during the Cold War and had about 35 Tupolev Tu-134 UBL's based as recently as 1995. High-resolution satellite imagery from Google Earth shows 41 Tu-134UBLs and a few An-24 aircraft and helicopters.
Kommersant-Vlast indicated in 2005 that the 239 Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment was based here.
One of the Tu-134UBL based at the airport and used by the pilots' school for training.
