Nagurskoye

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Nagurskoye
IATA: n/a - ICAO: UODN
Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Serves		Murmansk
Elevation AMSL		59 ft (18 m)
Coordinates		80°48′0″N, 047°44′0″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	4921	1500	?

Nagurskoye (ICAO: UODN) (also written as Nagurskoye, or Nagurskaja) is an airfield in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia located 1350 km north of Murmansk. It is an extremely remote Arctic base. Nagurskoye was built in 1950s as a staging base for Soviet bombers to reach the U.S., and was maintained by the Russian Air Force agency OGA (Arctic Control Group), which maintained all Arctic bomber staging facilities. An An-72 (Coaler) cargo plane crashed here on December 23, 1996 while attempting to land, perhaps one of the northernmost plane crashes ever. The airfield is believed to be operational, maintained by Frontier Guards (FSB) and capable of servicing An-26 and An-72 aircraft.

Orthographic projection centered over Nagurskoye, Russia.

Nagurskoye's position within Franz Josef Land.