Severomorsk-1 (ICAO: ULAK), formerly known as Vayenga-1, is a naval air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Severomorsk (formerly called Vayenga). It one of the largest airfields on the Kola Peninsula, second only to Olenya. It can accommodate over 40 bombers and a small number of fighters.

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Severomorsk-1
IATA: none ICAO: ULAK
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Russian Navy
Location	Severomorsk
Elevation AMSL	73 m / 239 ft
Coordinates	69°1′54″N 033°25′6″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 3,000 9,842 Concrete

During the Cold War, the two most important aviation regiments at the base were the 967th Naval Air Reconnaissance Regiment (967 MRAP) operating Tupolev Tu-22M and Tupolev Tu-16 aircraft (1951–1993) and the 24th Independent Long Range Anti-Submarine Aviation Regiment (24 OPLAPDD) operating Ilyushin Il-38 aircraft (1971–1993).[1][2] Both were directly responsible to the Northern Fleet headquarters.

Second World War

When No. 151 Wing RAF arrived in 1941, the airfield was the base of the 72nd SAP-SF (Composite Aviation Regiment-Northern Fleet) commanded by Colonel Georgii Gubanov, part of the Northern Fleet Air Force (Major-General A. A. Kuznetsov) of the Naval Air Fleet. The 4th Squadron of the 72 SAP-SF (Captain Boris Safonov), flying Polikarpov I-16 fighters, was also based at Vaenga.[3] The airfield had an adequate surface of compacted sand, a large oval about 4.8 km (3 mi) long, on its east-west axis. The airfield was in a bowl surrounded by hillocks and woods and was found to get very, very bumpy in wet weather.[4] The front line was about 24 km (15 mi) to the west and the airfield facilities were almost invisible, being well dispersed, dug in and camouflaged among the hillocks and growths of silver birch. There was a tarmac road about 2 km (1 mi) long along which lay buildings but there were only cart tracks and paths linking the buildings and huts.[5]

The airfield was under occasional attack by the Luftwaffe and Russian soldiers guarded the airfield from positions in the woods around the perimeter.[6] With the autumn rains and the number of lorries driving people to and fro, the tracks quickly became potholed. The aircraft hangars were part-buried for camouflage but had been built for the Polikarpov I-16s and were too narrow for the Hurricanes; Russian workers appeared to widen them, working-non-stop until the enlargement was complete.[7] Accommodation was in brick buildings and wooden huts, the huts being found to be unkempt and some infested with lice. The bedding was new, the food was ample, though some considered it to be a little greasy and the sanitation was hideous, leading to the British naming the main latrine, directly over a cesspit, "The Kremlin". Co-operation from the Russians was excellent; Isherwood established rapport with the Soviet commanding general and arranging bomber escort tactics with the local air commanders.[8]

See also

• Severomorsk-2
• Severomorsk-3

Notes

References

• Golley, J. (1987). Hurricanes over Murmansk (1st ed.). Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-0-85059-832-2.
• Mellinger, George (2006). Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603041-3.
• Richards, Denis; Saunders, H. St G. (1975) [1954]. Royal Air Force 1939–1945: The Fight Avails. History of the Second World War, Military Series. Vol. II (pbk. ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 978-0-11-771593-6. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

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[de] Flugplatz Seweromorsk-1

[ru] Североморск-1 (аэродром)