Dorokhovo

Dorokhovo
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Location		Bezhetsk
Elevation AMSL		469 ft / 143 m
Coordinates		57°43′30″N 036°39′6″E / 57.725°N 36.65167°E / 57.725; 36.65167Coordinates: 57°43′30″N 036°39′6″E / 57.725°N 36.65167°E / 57.725; 36.65167
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	8,202	2,500	Concrete

Dorokhovo (also Bezhetsk, Bezhetsk, or Dorokhov) is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It is a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon) interceptors.

It was home to 611 IAP (611th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying 39 Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s ^[1]. It also had MiG-31 aircraft ^[2].

References

1. ^ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI. http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/avpvo/. 
2. ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.