- Gromovo
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name = Gromovo
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operator =Russian Air Force
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footnotes =Gromovo ( _ru. Громово; _fi. Sakkola) is a settlement in
Priozersky District ofLeningrad Oblast ,Russia , located 18 km northwest of Sosnovo, and a station of theSaint Petersburg-Kuznechnoye railway . Gromovo is situated on the northern shore of theLake Sukhodolskoye ,Karelian Isthmus . Until theWinter War and theContinuation War , it had been the administrative center of the Sakkola municipality ofFinland . It hosts aninterceptor aircraft military base, which is an old, small fighter airfield with a crude runway extension from 2,000 to 2,500 m. It was home to 180 IAP (180th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) which flewMiG-31 aircraft as late as 1991. [cite web| title = Aviatsiya PVO | publisher = Aviabaza KPOI | url = http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/avpvo/ ] It is located only 90 km north ofSaint Petersburg (Leningrad).References
External links
* [http://www.sakkola.fi Site about Sakkola municipality] (in Finnish)
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