Slavgorod (air base)
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Slavgorod is an air base in Russia
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Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 located 5 km south of Slavgorod
Slavgorod
Slavgorod is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located between Lake Sekachi and Lake Bolshoye Yarovoye. Population: 48,000 .During the Cold War it was the site of Slavgorod air base....

. It is an abandoned, decaying airfield that has a large taxiway pattern. The latest Google Earth
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 high-resolution imagery accessed in 2006 shows that the aerodrome is unusable and is in a severe state of decay.

It was probably an attack aircraft dispersal base.
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