Bagai-Baranovka is a military airfield in the Saratov Region , located 2 km south of the village of Sennaya and the Sennaya railway station, 1.5 km north-east of the village of Bagai- Baranovka, Volsky District . The colloquial name of the airdrome is “Sennaya”.
| Bagai-Baranivka (Hay) | |||||||
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| IATA : no - ICAO : no - Inside. code : bvsb | |||||||
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| Type of | military | ||||||
| A country | Russia | ||||||
| Location | 2 km south of Sennoy | ||||||
| NUM height | +38 m | ||||||
| Timezone | UTC + 4 | ||||||
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As of 2014, the 395th separate test aviation squadron (395th OIAE) of the Air Force of the Russian Federation serving the training ground for the Shihan radiation, chemical and biological defense forces ( An-26 , An-72 aircraft , Mi-8 , Mi helicopters -24 ).
History
The airfield was created in the early 1940s and named after the nearby village of Baranovka, located on the banks of the Bagai River . In those years , the 8th reserve fighter aviation regiment was based at the airport, specializing in training personnel for units armed with Yak fighters, as well as flying around Yak aircraft manufactured by the Saratov aircraft factory .
The unit based at the airport (created on March 17, 1944) in 1955 was reorganized into the 101st Separate Test Aviation Squadron (military unit 54817).
Until 1998, the 343rd instructor fighter aviation regiment (MiG-17, MiG-21, MiG-23 , MiG-29 aircraft ) was deployed at the airport.
On July 1, 1993, the 395th Nuclear Aviation Aviation Command of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces was formed at the airport based on the merger of the 101st Separate Test Aviation Squadron (101st Nuclear Aviation Regiment) and the 220th Nuclear Aviation Regiment relocated from Aralsk (Kazakhstan).
From the moment of its formation from 1993 to 2009, Colonel Plaskeev Grigory Semyonovich, pilot and sniper, Honored Military Pilot of Russia, was the commander of the 395th OIAE.
On November 1, 2009, the 395th OIAE was transferred to the Russian Air Force and reorganized into the test aviation squadron of the 929th Main Flight Test Center named after V.P. Chkalova.