Pribytki

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name = Zyabrovka Pribytki
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location = Gomel
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elevation-m = 139
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r1-length-f = 9842
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Pribytki (also Zyabrovka) is an air base in Belarus located 16 km southeast of Gomel. In the early 1960s it was flying Tupolev Tu-16R aircraft. The airfield was renovated in 1963 cite book| title = Tupelov Tu-22 'Blinder' Tu-22M 'Backfire' | last = Gordon | first = Yefim | publisher = Midland Publishing | date = 1999 | id = 1857800656 ] . It received the Tu-22R around 1966, and by 1967 had 24 based there cite book| title = Tupelov Tu-22 'Blinder' Tu-22M 'Backfire' | last = Gordon | first = Yefim | publisher = Midland Publishing | date = 1999 | id = 1857800656 ] . The reconnaissance aircraft were tasked with operations in the Baltic and northern Europe cite book| title = Tupelov Tu-22 'Blinder' Tu-22M 'Backfire' | last = Gordon | first = Yefim | publisher = Midland Publishing | date = 1999 | id = 1857800656 ] . From 1973 into the 1980s pilots from Libya and Iraq trained in the Tu-22 here cite book| title = Tupelov Tu-22 'Blinder' Tu-22M 'Backfire' | last = Gordon | first = Yefim | publisher = Midland Publishing | date = 1999 | id = 1857800656 ] . The Tu-22 units were disbanded in 1994 and the aircraft sent to Engels-2 for disposal cite book| title = Tupelov Tu-22 'Blinder' Tu-22M 'Backfire' | last = Gordon | first = Yefim | publisher = Midland Publishing | date = 1999 | id = 1857800656 ] .

Pribytki was home to 290 Gv ODRAP (290th Guards Long Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Tu-16R from the early 1960s to 1994 and the Tu-22RDM from the 1960s to 1994 cite web| title = Dal'nyaya Aviatsiya | publisher = Aviabaza KPOI | url = http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/da/ ] cite web| title = Take-OffF | publisher = take-off.ru | url = http://www.take-off.ru/ ] ; plus a number of Tu-22R aircraft cite web| title = Dal'nyaya Aviatsiya | publisher = Aviabaza KPOI | url = http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/da/ ] .

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