Step (air base)

Coordinates: 51°1′0″N 115°26′0″E / 51.01667°N 115.43333°E / 51.01667; 115.43333
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Step
Olovyannaya
Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai in Russia
Step is located in Zabaykalsky Krai
Step
Step
Shown within Zabaykalsky Krai
Step is located in Russia
Step
Step
Step (Russia)
Coordinates51°1′0″N 115°26′0″E / 51.01667°N 115.43333°E / 51.01667; 115.43333
TypeAir Base
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
OperatorRussian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
Site history
Built1948 (1948)
In use1948 - present
Airfield information
IdentifiersICAO: XIAS
Runways
Direction Length and surface
09/27 2,500 metres (8,202 ft) Concrete

Step (also Olovyannaya) is an air base in Chita, Russia located 14 km northwest of Yasnogorsk. It is a large air base with two revetment areas and numerous military fortifications. It is near an SS-11 missile field that was dismantled in the mid-1990s.

The 849th Assault Aviation Regiment, part of the 253rd Assault Aviation Division, was stationed at Step up until 1956.[1]

Units stationed at Step/Olovyannaya include:

The base appears to have been closed after a boiler room fire in December 2009. Thereafter, the base was reopened and the 266th Independent Shturmovik Aviation Regiment was reformed with at least two squadrons of Sukhoi-25s in 2019.[3] The regiment by this time had been shifted into the Eastern Military District's 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2014, pp. 57–58.
  2. ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
  3. ^ "Russian Air Force - Today".
  • Lenskii, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2014). Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 2 [Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 2] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Info Ol. OCLC 861180616.

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