Aleysk | |||||||
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| Aleysk, Altai Krai in Russia | |||||||
  Aleysk Shown within Altai Krai, Russia  Aleysk Aleysk (Russia) | |||||||
| Coordinates | 52°29′0″N 082°42′0″E / 52.48333°N 82.70000°E | ||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||
| Condition | Now training range | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| In use | Unknown - 2001 | ||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||
| Identifiers | ICAO: XNBJ | ||||||
| Elevation | 206 metres (676 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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Aleysk was an air base in Altai Krai, Russia located 6 km west of Aleysk. It comprises the remains of a small airfield, razed during the 1990s to make way for a military training range.
Station history
The Aleysk area was once the home to a division of the Strategic Rocket Forces, the 41st Guards Lvovsko-Berlinskaya orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division.[1] There were 30 silos for RS-20/SS-18 'Satan' ICBMs in the area, but from late 2000 through 2002, the silos were destroyed in accordance with US/Soviet arms reduction treaties. The process was managed by US Government contractors under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program and observed/verified by United States Air Force representatives according to START I elimination requirements. The final regiment went off duty on 31 August 2001, and the Division was disbanded on 1 December 2001.
The SRF's Aleysk military garrison area, which included housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and a large amount of other equipment, was transferred to the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Siberian Military District's Ground Forces by 2005.[2]
The 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division became the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in June 2009. In early 2022 it entered combat as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "41st Guards Lvovsko-Berlinskaya orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division". ww2.dk. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ↑ Robinson 2005, pp. 202–203.
- ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Voice message reveals Russian military unit's catastrophic losses in Ukraine". The Kyiv Independent. 2 March 2022. Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ↑ "Russian troops suffer epic fail while attempting to cross river at Bilohorivka". 15 May 2022.
- Robinson, Colin (2005). "The Russian Ground Forces Today: A Structural Status Examination". Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 18 (2): 189–206. doi:10.1080/13518040590944421. S2CID 145691472.
- 'All 30 of the Silos which contained RS 20 nuclear ICBMs that are famous throughout the world under the name 'Satan', have been destroyed in Altay Kray', Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moscow, 24 January 2002, p. 9, via Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-SOV-2002-0124.