Chuguyevka ( Russian : Чугуевка ) is a military air base of the Russian Air Force in Primorsky Krai , Russia . It is located in Chuguyevsky District , near the towns of Chuguyevka and Bulyga-Fadeyevo, 190 kilometers (120 mi) north-east of Vladivostok . The base was also written in various references as Chuguevka, Sandagou, Sikharovka (erroneous), Sakharovka (erroneous), Sokolovka, and Bulyga-Fadeyevo.
5-561: Chuguyevka may refer to: Chuguyevka (air base) , a military air base in Primorsky Krai, Russia Chuguyevka (rural locality) , a rural locality (a selo ) in Primorsky Krai , Russia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chuguyevka . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-415: A CIA analysis listed 43 MiG-17 "Fresco" interceptors and 10 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 UTI (ASCC: Midget) trainers operating at this airfield. By the 1970s as SR-71 flights became an issue of concern, the base was assigned 36 new Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 P (NATO: Foxbat) planes. In September 1976, Chuguyevka Air Base rose to prominence when Viktor Belenko , a MiG-25 pilot stationed at the base, defected to
15-674: The United States by flying to Hakodate , Japan . This incident was a major security breach for the Soviet Union, and one of the most publicized defections of the Cold War . From the 1990s, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the air base was operated by the Russian Air Defence Forces , and MiG-25s were phased out as the primary aircraft and replaced with Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31s . In 1998-99
20-481: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chuguyevka&oldid=932764235 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chuguyevka (air base) The airbase was built by the Soviet Union with
25-490: The primary objective of scrambling aircraft against Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird flights over Vladivostok. The primary operator of the base was the 530th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (530 IAP) of the 23rd Air Defence Corps (23 K PVO), 11th Independent Air Defence Army , of the Soviet Air Defence Forces . During the 1960s, Chuguyevka housed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (ASCC: Fresco) aircraft, and by 1972
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