Ganja (air base)

During the USSR, the airfield was a joint airfield, it housed an airport and a military airfield. After the collapse of the USSR, military aviation was redeployed to Russian airfields.

Until 1940, the regiments of the 64th Aviation Brigade were based at the airfield, and since the summer of 1940, the 26th Bomber Aviation Division .

During the Great Patriotic War, the airfield was used by reserve fighter regiments for training, retraining and retraining of the flight personnel of the Red Army Air Force, as well as for the training of marching regiments and individual crews on various aircraft. In the period from January 1942 to 1946, the 11th reserve fighter aviation regiment of the 4th reserve aviation brigade of the Transcaucasian Front was based at the airport.

In the period from December 1945 to September 1953, the 761st Polotsk fighter aviation regiment of the Suvorov and Kutuzov Air Defense Regiment from the 259th Gorodok Order of the Lenin, Red Banner Order, Suvorov Order of the Air Defense Division based on the Yak-9 , Yak- aircraft was based at the airport. 3 , MiG-15 and MiG-17 .

In the period from December 1945 to 1963, the headquarters and command of the 259th fighter aviation Gorodok Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov of the Air Defense Division were located at the airport.

Since July 1953, the 34th Tashkent Red Banner Order of the Kutuzov Regiment , withdrawn from Germany by IL-28 aircraft (until 1960), was based at the airport. The regiment was part of the 268th Bomber Aviation Gomel Order of the Kutuzov Division , also withdrawn from Germany to the 34th Air Army . In 1960, the division was disbanded, and the regiment was renamed the 34th Aviation Training Regiment and re-equipped with MiG-17 aircraft. The regiment became directly subordinate to the headquarters of the 34th Air Army. In 1978, the regiment was renamed the 34th aviation regiment of fighter-bombers and rearmament on Su-17 aircraft. In August 1984, the regiment became part of the newly formed 36th Aviation Division of fighter-bombers ( Big Shiraki , Georgian SSR ). In 1986, the regiment received Su-24 aircraft, and in 1987 it was renamed back to the 34th Bomber Aviation Regiment , and in 1988 the division was renamed the 36th Bomber Aviation Division ^[1] .

Currently, the airfield is not used for military purposes.

• March 18, 1989 the crash of the Su-24M aircraft, Kirovabad airfield, crew commander Captain Savin S. and navigator Lieutenant Colonel Malashkin. The crew flew at night on the route to the training ground with the MVK (with envelope relief). The plane collided with a mountain, the crew died. Reason: error in reading altitude by altimeter.
• October 12, 1989 at night at the airport, a disaster occurred as a result of a collision of Su-24 and An-12 aircraft. The total number of victims of the disaster amounted to 7 people ^[2] .

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