Sredny Ostrov | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
Location | slightly west of Severnaya Zemlya | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 79°31′42″N 091°4′30″E / 79.52833°N 91.07500°E | ||||||||||
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Sredny Ostrov is a small island ('ostrov') and a military airfield in
Krasnoyarsk Krai,
Russia, located in the northern
Kara Sea, off the archipelago of
Severnaya Zemlya and almost 900 km north of
Khatanga which in turn is on the Siberian coast. Sredny is an ice airfield used as an alternate field for
Tupolev Tu-95 ("Bear") bombers in the Arctic. It was built in the late 1950s as a staging base for Soviet
Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States, and was maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group), which was a caretaker agency for strategic facilities in the Arctic. In March 1979 2
Tu-128 (Fiddler) aircraft were based here. The airfield is believed to be operational, operated by Frontier Guards (FSB) and capable of servicing
An-26 and
An-72 aircraft (it was in use as of January 2000, when an expedition bound for the North Pole recorded being flown there from Khatanga).
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Sredny Ostrov | |||||||||||
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Summary | |||||||||||
Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
Location | slightly west of Severnaya Zemlya | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 79°31′42″N 091°4′30″E / 79.52833°N 91.07500°E | ||||||||||
Map | |||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||
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Sredny Ostrov is a small island ('ostrov') and a military airfield in
Krasnoyarsk Krai,
Russia, located in the northern
Kara Sea, off the archipelago of
Severnaya Zemlya and almost 900 km north of
Khatanga which in turn is on the Siberian coast. Sredny is an ice airfield used as an alternate field for
Tupolev Tu-95 ("Bear") bombers in the Arctic. It was built in the late 1950s as a staging base for Soviet
Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States, and was maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group), which was a caretaker agency for strategic facilities in the Arctic. In March 1979 2
Tu-128 (Fiddler) aircraft were based here. The airfield is believed to be operational, operated by Frontier Guards (FSB) and capable of servicing
An-26 and
An-72 aircraft (it was in use as of January 2000, when an expedition bound for the North Pole recorded being flown there from Khatanga).
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