Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) was an interceptor aircraft base in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is close to Ukrainka, a Long Range Aviation strategic bomber base. In the 1960s Orlovka was a deployment and dispersal airfield, then was upgraded in the early 1970s following an increase in military forces near the Chinese border after the Sino-Soviet split.[1][2] Orlovka is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area.

The base was closed in 2001 and is since abandoned.

Units stationed at Orlovka included:

• 404 IAP (404th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with MiG-23P and then Su-27. It was commissioned in 1974 and decommissioned in 2000.[3] The 404 IAP was dissolved into 23 IAP at Dzemgi.
• 41 IAP (41st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with the MiG-29 starting in 1987.[4]

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[ru] Орловка (Серышевский район)