Pribylovo, Leningrad Oblast

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Pribylovo air base
IATA: noneICAO: none
Summary
Airport type Military
Operator Russian Navy
Elevation AMSL 131 ft / 40 m
Coordinates 60°27′30″N 028°44′48″E / 60.45833°N 28.74667°E / 60.45833; 28.74667Coordinates: 60°27′30″N 028°44′48″E / 60.45833°N 28.74667°E / 60.45833; 28.74667
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
6,562 2,000 Asphalt

Pribylovo (also Klyuchevoye, Finnish: Makslahti) is a rural locality (a logging depot settlement) in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Vyborg.

The settlement hosts an air base and a naval military airfield with ten medium-sized and twelve large revetments. The airfield guards the approach to Saint Petersburg from Helsinki, Finland. Pribylovo is also a station of the Primorsk-Vyborg railroad.

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