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Vozzhayevka (air base)
Vozzhayevka (also Vozzhayevka Northeast (US)) is an air base in Amur Oblast, Russia located about 100 km southeast of Blagoveshchensk. It is a medium-sized air base located near an SS-11 missile field at Svobodnyy.
An Il-76MD destined for Vozzhayevka crash-landed at Astrakhan on June 20, 2000.
Units stationed at Vozzhayevka include:
- 293 ORAP (293rd Independent Aviation Reconnaissance Regiment) or 293 OPIB (293rd Independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R aircraft in the late 1980s and the MiG-25 until 1987. The regiment was under 1 OA ( 1st Air Army, i.e. Far East Air Army).