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Step (also Olovyannaya) is an air base in Chita, Russia located 14 km northwest of Yasnogorsk. It is a large air base with two revetment areas and numerous military fortifications. It is near an SS-11 missile field that was dismantled in the mid-1990s.

Step
IATA: none ICAO: XIAS
Summary
Operator	Russian Air Force
Coordinates	51°1′0″N 115°26′0″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8,202 2,500 Concrete

The 849th Assault Aviation Regiment, part of the 253rd Assault Aviation Division, was stationed at Step up until 1956.[1]

Units stationed at Step/Olovyannaya include:

• 6th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (6 APIB) flying Sukhoi Su-17 in the late 1980s; under 23rd Air Army, Transbaikal Military District.
• 58th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (58 APIB) flying Su-17M3 and L-29 aircraft in the late 1980s, and receiving MiG-27 in the early 1990s. It was under 23rd Air Army (Trans-Baikal).
• 266th Independent Shturmovik Aviation Regiment (266th Assault Aviation Regiment, 266 OShAP) flying Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft.[2] Disbanded circa 2009.

The base appears to have been closed after a boiler room fire in December 2009. Thereafter, the base was reopened and the 266th Independent Shturmovik Aviation Regiment was reformed with at least two squadrons of Sukhoi-25s in 2019.[3] The regiment by this time had been shifted into the Eastern Military District's 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.

References

• Lenskii, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2014). Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 2 [Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 2] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Info Ol. OCLC 861180616.

External links

• http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/bap/6bap.htm
• http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/shap/58apib.htm

На других языках

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- [en] Step (air base)

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[ru] Степь (аэродром)

Степь — реконструируемый военный аэродром в Оловяннинском районе Забайкальского края, восточнее посёлка станции Степь.

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