Kryazh is a military airfield on the southwestern outskirts of Samara . Located in the Kuibyshevsky district of the city, 2.5 km southeast of the Kryazh railway station.
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| Type of | military | ||||||
| A country | Russia | ||||||
| Location | on the southwestern outskirts of Samara | ||||||
| NUM height | +35 m | ||||||
| Timezone | UTC + 4 | ||||||
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Nowadays it is used as a sports aerodrome, the flying club of the FAU branch of the Russian Federation CSKA - CSK Air Force [1] is based here (3 An-2 planes , 9 Mi-2 helicopters , 3 Yak-54 planes, 1 Yak-52 plane, 1 Mi-8 helicopter MT, 1 Mi-8MTV2 helicopter). Part of the center’s aircraft is located at Rozhdestveno unpaved airfield, located 15 km to the north. The center provides a full training cycle for paratroopers (from beginners to highly qualified athletes, including specialists in the paratrooper and search and rescue services of the Air Force) [2] . The Air Force parachuting team is regularly trained.
The authorities of the Samara region plan to solve the issue of closing the airfield with the Russian Ministry of Defense , and to build up its territory with residential buildings [3] .
History
The airfield has existed since the 1930s. During the Great Patriotic War, it was one of the airfields of the 1st reserve air brigade of the Red Army Air Force .
In the 1960s, the airfield (the Il-14 transport aircraft were based here at that time) was involved in search and rescue support for the landing of the first Soviet cosmonauts (which were made in the Middle Volga region). Until the end of the 1960s, there was no artificial runway at the airdrome; therefore, in the spring and autumn, the airdrome got wet and was unusable; during such periods, airplanes from the Kryazh airfield were temporarily relocated to the Smyshlyaevka civil airfield.
On April 12, 1961, an Il-14 plane took off from Kryazh aerodrome, which, after a historic flight into space, the first Earth cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin from Engels to the Bezymyanka airfield in Kuybyshev. [four]
In the 1970-1990s at the airport were based:
- a separate mixed squadron (military unit 40812), which was armed with An-24 , An-26 , An-72 , Tu-134 aircraft , Mi-8 , Ka-50 helicopters (the detachment was disbanded in 1998);
- 144th Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron (144 OSAE) of the 28th Air Defense Division (military unit 29666).
Accidents
On January 25, 1997, in difficult weather conditions (limited visibility due to wet snow, strong wind), the take -off An-24 plane caught the snow parapet on the edge of the runway with its wheels and crashed into a snowy airfield. Fortunately, kerosene ignition did not occur, although the tanks were full. The people on board the aircraft (the crew and the hockey team of the Air Force Central Command) managed to quickly leave the aircraft through emergency doors and emergency exits.
Notes
- ↑ Aero club of the branch of the FAU of the RF Ministry of Defense CSKA - CSK of the Air Force of Samara
- ↑ Central Air Force Sports Club (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Flew away, we will live (inaccessible link)
- ↑ "Space" history of the Kryazh airdrome