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Gromovo (Russian: Гро́мово; Finnish: Sakkola) is a settlement in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located 18 km northwest of Sosnovo, and a station of the Saint Petersburg-Kuznechnoye railway. Gromovo is situated on the northern shore of the Lake Sukhodolskoye, Karelian Isthmus. Until the Winter War and the Continuation War, it had been the administrative center of the Sakkola municipality of Finland. It hosts an interceptor aircraft base, which is an old, small fighter airfield with a crude runway extension from 2,000 to 2,500 m. It was home to the 180th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (180 GvIAP) which flew Mikoyan MiG-31 aircraft as late as 1991.[1] It is located only 90 km north of Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).

Gromovo
Antonov An-74 at Gromovo
IATA: none ICAO: ULLJ
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Russian Air Force
Elevation AMSL	230 ft / 70 m
Coordinates	60°42′48″N 030°6′42″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8,202 2,500 Concrete

Notable people

• Hanna Granfelt (1884-1952), Finnish opera singer

References

External links

• Site about Sakkola municipality (in Finnish)

На других языках

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- [en] Gromovo

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[ru] Громово (Ленинградская область)

Гро́мово (до 1948 года Са́ккола, фин. Sakkola) — посёлок в Приозерском районе Ленинградской области. Административный центр Громовского сельского поселения.

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