- Vorkuta Sovetsky
Infobox Airport
name = Vorkuta Sovetskiy
nativename =
nativename-a =
nativename-r =
image-width =
caption =
IATA =
ICAO =
type = Military
owner =
operator =Russian Air Force
city-served =
location = Vorkuta
elevation-f = 630
elevation-m =
coordinates = Coord|67|27|48|N|064|18|24|E|type:airport|display=inline,title
website =
metric-elev =
metric-rwy =
r1-number =
r1-length-f = 11647
r1-length-m = 3550
r1-surface =Concrete
stat-year =
stat1-header =
stat1-data =
stat2-header =
stat2-data =
footnotes =Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the
Komi Republic ,Russia located 11 km east ofVorkuta . It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region. Sovetskiy was built in the 1950s as a staging base for intercontinental strategic bomber strikes, and is maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group). The 364 OSAE (364th Independent Composite Aviation Squadron) was based here, but it is unknown what type of aircraft were operated.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.