Dzhida is an air base in the Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is the world's oldest at 30 million years old and deepest lake with an average depth of 744.4 metres.Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the...

 region of Russia

Russia

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. It is a large fighter base with small revetment groups scattered around the airfield.

It has been home to:

• 2 Gv BAP (2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24M aircraft as recently as [1991].
• 21 BAP (21st Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24.

On rare occasion the airfield's name appears as Eleagnus, which is Latin for the Russian word dzhida (Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus , silverberry or oleaster, is a genus of about 50–70 species of flowering plants in the family Elaeagnaceae.The vast majority of the species are native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia. Elaeagnus triflora extends from Asia south into northeastern Australia, while E...

) although the name Dzhida is derived not from plant name but from Buryat

Buryat language

Buryat is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and...

ƶede ‘copper’.