Lebyazhye is an air base in Russia

Russia

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 located 18 km northwest of Kamyshin

Kamyshin

Kamyshin is a city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir of the Volga River, in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River. Population: 101,000 ; 24,000 ....

 and 170 km north of Volgograd

Volgograd

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. The base has an unusually wide runway and large tarmac space.

The airfield was home to the 1st Guards Instructional Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (1 Gv IAPIB) flying MiG-23, MiG-27K, and Su-24 aircraft in the mid-1990s . The 1 Gv IAPIB used to fall under the 1080th Training Aviation Centre for Retraining of Personnel (1080 UATs PLS) at Borisoglebsk

Borisoglebsk (air base)

For the airport in Kazan see Kazan Borisoglebskoye.Borisoglebsk is an air base in Voronezh Oblast, Russia located 6 km east of Borisoglebsk. It is a small military airfield....

.. However, according to Air Forces Monthly in July 2007, it was by that time a direct reporting unit to Russian Air Force

Russian Air Force

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 headquarters. The regiment was absorbed by the 6970th Aviation Base on 1 September 2009.

External links

• Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, History of 1st Guards Bombardment Air Regiment, accessed June 2010 (Ru)