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Donskoye (air base)

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Airport type
  
Military

Elevation AMSL
  
164 ft / 50 m

500
  
Concrete

Location
  
Donskoye

1,640
  
500

Operator
  
Russian Navy

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Donskoye (also Bryusterort or Donskoe) is an air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 1 km east of Donskoye (formerly Gross Dirschkeim, lith. Tirškaimis). It is a very old airfield probably dating back to World War II, nearly at Russia's most extreme western point. The facility contains 25 aircraft pads, and appears to be in a severe state of decay. Its original length was 2000 m, but only 500 m remains. Its pads are occupied by a number of helicopters.

Map of Donskoye, Kaliningradskaya Oblast, Russia, 238570

Units stationed at Donskoe in the early 1990s included 396 OKPLVP (396th Independent Shipborne Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment) flying 22 Ka-27 helicopters; and 745 OPLVP (745th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment) flying 15 Mi-14 helicopters and 5 Ka-25 helicopters.

References

Donskoye (air base) Wikipedia