Shaykovka (air base)

The exact date of construction of the airfield Shaykovka not known. When testing a DB-3 aircraft, landing in August 1938 at the Shaykovka airfield of one DB-3 is mentioned when flying along the Monino-Sevastopol-Krasnodar-Monino route of a group of 10 cars.

On the eve of the war, in the spring of 1941, the 1st heavy bomber regiment of the 42nd long-range bomber division was redeployed to the airfield of Shaykovka. The regiment was armed with airplanes TB-3.

With the beginning of the war, the regiment flew over to operational airfields, but already on 23 June, two squadrons returned to the base airfield. Also in Shaykovu flew the aircraft of the 3rd heavy bomber regiment.

The airfield was held by the Germans from October 1941 to August 1943. Being an important strategic object, it was repeatedly subjected to bomb attacks by Soviet long-range aviation.

By 1959, the airfield would be reconstructed and the 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment flew over it. The regiment received the new Tu-16 aircraft in the bomber version.

As of 1961, the 52nd Guards based in Shaykovka garrison. TBAP, 1st AE from 43th TsPB And PLC and separate AE air defense troops, all on the Tu-16.

In 1967, the 52nd TBAP began retraining on the Tu-16 in the version of missile carriers, in 1969 the first practical launch of the KSR-2 rocket was completed.

In 1982, the 52nd regiment was re-equipped on a Tu-22M 2.

In 1991, the 73rd Guards Stalingrad-Vienna Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree Fighter Aviation Regiment was redeployed to Shaykovka. The regiment flew from Germany (aer. Kothen), in service with the regiment were the MiG-29.

In 1992, the Tu-22M3 entered service with the 52nd regiment.

From 1988 to 1994, students of the 43rd TsPB and PLC were trained on the basis of the 52-TBAP in Shaykovka.

In 1998, the 73rd IAP, based in Shaykovka, was disbanded. Serviceable aircraft of the regiment transferred to the 14th Guards Leningrad Red Banner Order of Suvorov III degree Fighter Aviation Regiment .

As of 2004, in Shaykovka stationed:

• 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment, military unit 13785
• 3630th aviation technical base of military unit 40444
• 949th separate communications and radio battalion of military unit 93486

In 2009, the regiment and support units were reformed into 6951st Guards. AvB (1 category) military unit 40444, armed with 48 Tu-22MZ, 24 of them in storage. The air base included the aviation commandant's office at the airfield Soltsy military unit 40444-A.

On December 1, 2010, the 6951st Guards Aviation Base (1st category) was reorganized into an air group (3 squadrons) of the 6950th Avb, controlled by Avb at Engels-1 aerodrome.

On August 1, 2015, the air group was re-formed into the 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment (second formation).

• Title Shaikovka [eng] Shaykovka
• CTA N54.22655 ° E034.36902 °
• Index of aerodrome LUBY / XUBJ
• Call sign - "River"
• Ncr. = (500) m.
• Runway 16/34 3000x75 m
• Excess of 214 m (25 hPa)

• 08.08.1961 Aircraft Tu-16, crew st.l-ta Kazantsev, 52nd TBAP. The crew died in the performance of official tasks in peacetime (no other information).
• On August 15, 1962, two Tu-16s from Shaykovka collided in the air, the crews of the commander of the guard detachment, Major V. T. Maksimov, and the guard, Captain M. G. Karimov. The pair went to the landfill for aerial firing. Upon returning home, the slave "drove" on the lead, both crews 12 people were killed.
• 04/24/1970 Distillation of the Tu-16 aircraft on the route Shaykovka-Knevichi with an intermediate landing on the Aer. White The plane, together with the crew, was completely lost, the persistent search for results did not yield. Before the disappearance, the crew reported to the ground about the observed UFOs .
• April 12, 1983. The accident of the Tu-22M2, KK - Lieutenant Colonel A.P. Ponomarev, deputy regiment commander. Conditions: SMU, sleet, cloudy 10 points, lower edge 500 meters. When landing on the run, the plane for 150 meters before the end of the runway rolled onto the ground, it spun by 90 ° degrees, the landing gear broke and he lay down on the ground. The crew is alive, the new aircraft was written off due to damage (at the time of the accident the attack was 90 hours).
• 05/16/1986 Aircraft Tu-22M2, KK Mursankov S. G. At 29 seconds of flight there was an intense fire in the right engine compartment. The plane exploded over the city of Kirov, Kaluga region at an altitude of 60-80 meters, the crew ejected, the commander left for 2-3 seconds before the explosion. Wreckage of the aircraft and burning fuel covered the bus stop near the entrance of the plant. 10 people died on the ground at once, four later died in hospital, 37 people received burns of varying degrees of severity.
• February 14, 1989, the plane Tu-22M2, the crew of the guard captain G. V. Karpenko. Flying in a group of 6 aircraft on the ground. On the way back, at 20 h 50 min, instructor pilot Colonel V.I. Logunov reported on the failure of the onboard power supply and requested a landing at the nearest airfield. At 20 h 55 min, the aircraft, according to the radar defense, went into a sharp decline along a steep trajectory, and 20 h 57 min Tu-22M2 disappeared from radar screens. The plane fell 36 km from Mariupol.
• August 10, 2008 The Tu-22M3 aircraft was shot down by a ground-to-air missile while performing a combat mission during an armed conflict in South Ossetia. The commander of the ship is considered missing, both navigators died on the plane, the PAC, Major V. Malkov, was injured and later captured.

The TV series “The Frontier. Taiga novel "

• Flights at the airfield Shaykovka
• [1] Map of Russian airfields. Shaykovka

"All Stalin's fighter regiments." Vladimir Anokhin. Mikhail Bykov. Yauza-press. 2014

• List of military airfields of Russia