Sunday, October 21, 2012

Vorkuta Sovetsky

Vorkuta Sovetsky (Vorkuta East) is a an airfield in the Komi Republic (Russian Federal Subject). Reported to be built in the 1950's as an staging base for Long Range Aviation, it has one of the largest runways in the Russian Arctic Region. Maintained by the 364th OSAE (Independent Composite Aviation Squadron), or the OGA (Arctic Control Group).

Vorkuta Sovetsky has no IATA identifier, nor a ICAO identifier, this confirms its existence as strictly a military airfield. It is unreported as to what types of aircraft were or are stationed at Vorkuta Sovetsky, but with it being under OGA command and having one of the largest runways in the region, it is most likely the Tu-22M Long Range Strategic Strike Bomber, Tu-16 Strategic Bomber,  Tu-4 Strategic Bomber, Tu-160 Heavy Strategic Bomber and Tu-95 Long Range Strategic Bomber stood standby at the installation.










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