Donskoye (air base)

Donskoye
Donskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia
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Coordinates	54°56′12″N 019°59′6″E
Type	Air Base
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Russian Navy - Russian Naval Aviation
Controlled by	Baltic Fleet
Site history
Built	1945 (1945)
In use	1945 - present
Airfield information
Elevation	50 metres (164 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 02/20 500 metres (1,640 ft) Concrete

Donskoye (also Bryusterort or Donskoe) is an air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 1 km east of Donskoye.

The base is home to the 72nd Guards Aviation Base.^[1]

It probably dates back to World War II, and is located nearly at Russia's most extreme western point. The facility contains 25 aircraft pads. Its original length was 2000m, but only 500m remains. Its pads are occupied by a number of helicopters.

The base was used by the:

• 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1945 and 1947.^[2]
• 68th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1945 and 1947.^[3]
• 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment during 1945.^[4]

Units stationed at Donskoye in the early 1990s included 396 OKPLVP (396th Independent Shipborne Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment) flying 22 Kamov Ka-27 (ASCC: Helix) helicopters; and 745 OPLVP (745th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment), which joined in 1958,^[5] flying 15 Mil Mi-14 (ASCC: Haze) helicopters ^[6] and 5 Kamov Ka-25 (ASCC: Hormone) helicopters.

References

1. "Russian Naval Aviation - Donskoye ( )". Scramble.nl. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
2. "28th Guards Leningradskiy order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
3. "68th Guards Klaypedskiy order of Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
4. "72nd Guards Polotskiy order of Suvorov Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
5. "745th independent Anti-Submarine Helicopter Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
6. "Aviatsiya VMF". Aviabaza KPOI.