| Aleysk | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | military | ||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||
| Serves | Aleysk | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 676 ft / 206 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 6,562 | 2,000 | Concrete | |
Aleysk is an air base in Altai Krai, 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, the 41st Guards Lvovsko-Berlinskaya orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division 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 from late 2000 through 2002, the silos were destroyed in accordance with US/Soviet arms reduction treaties. The process was managed by US Government contractors under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program and observed/verified by United States Air Force representatives according to START I elimination requirements. The final regiment went off duty on 31 August 2001, and the Division was disbanded on 1 December 2001.
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.