Vetrovoye Air Base

Coordinates: 45°15′6″N 148°18′42″E / 45.25167°N 148.31167°E

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Vetrovoye

Vetrovoye, 1984 Landsat image.

IATA: none
ICAO: none

Summary

Airport type

Military

Operator

Soviet Navy 1960s-1990s
unknown

Location

Iturup Island, Russia

Elevation AMSL

59 ft / 18 m

Coordinates

45°15′6″N 148°18′42″E / 45.25167°N 148.31167°E

Map

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Location in Sakhalin Oblast

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Vetrovoye (Japan)

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Vetrovoye (Russia)

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Vetrovoye (Asia)

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18/36	9,842	3,000	Concrete

Vetrovoye (also Sopochny Southwest) is a former Soviet Naval air base on Iturup, Russia located 66 km (41 mi) northeast of Burevestnik (Tennei before 1945). The airfield was built in the early or mid-1960s,^[1] following a directive by Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky that every American aircraft carrier between Midway Island and the Kuril Ridge be photographed by Soviet Tupolev Tu-16R reconnaissance aircraft. At the time, Soviet Naval air assets for this region were based on Sakhalin Island. The project was commissioned by Soviet Navy commander in chief Sergey Gorshkov and completed in the mid-1960s, at which point the 50th Aviation Cavalry Regiment was relocated from Sakhalin to Vetrovoye.

At the end of the Cold War the airfield fell into disuse, and Google Earth high-resolution imagery shows the airfield to be in poor condition. The outline of the runways and tarmac is still visible from satellite imagery.

Notes

^ Memoirs of Admiral N. N. Amelko, Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet, http://www.38brrzk.ru/public/amelko-vospominaniya/. Retrieved 2014-10-21.

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/russia/Vetrovoe.htm

Airports built in the Soviet Union

Military

Active	Belaya Borisoglebskoye Burevestnik Dzyomgi Engels-2 Kirovsk–Apatity Klyuchi Kondinskoye Levashovo Lipetsk Magdagachi Ozerne Poltava Pugachyov Ryazan Dyagilevo Rzhev Samara Kryazh Saratov West Shatalovo Shaykovka Sol'tsy-2 Tatishchevo Tiksi Tilichiki Tushino Airfield Uka Ukrainka Vorkuta Sovetsky Vozdvizhenka Yaroslavl Levtsovo Yevpatoria Yugorsk Sovetsky
Defunct	Baherove Bakharevka Berezovka Dolon Dolon Southwest Jonava Lakhta Lenino Pryluky Raadi Saratov South Smirnykh Stryi Tiksi West Uzyn Vetrovoye Zavitinsk