Magdagachi Airport

Magdagachi

IATA: GDG – ICAO: UHBI

Summary

Airport type

Military

Operator

Russian Army

Location

Magdagachi

Elevation AMSL

1,211 ft / 369 m

Coordinates

53°28′0″N 125°48′0″E / 53.46667°N 125.80000°ECoordinates: 53°28′0″N 125°48′0″E / 53.46667°N 125.80000°E

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
	5,905	1,800	Concrete

Magdagachi Airport (IATA: GDG, ICAO: UHBI) is a small airport in Russia's Amur Oblast, located 3 km north of Magdagachi. It is an old 1960s-era base in poor condition due to poor maintenance and the often harsh, local climate. Satellite images show that it has a hardened runway, 10 revetments, and a small tarmac apron. During the mid-1970s the U.S. Department of Defense cited this as one of the bases used by the Soviet Union's first two identified air assault brigades. This brigade was the 13 ODShBR (13th Non-integrated Combat Assault Brigade), formed in 1969.

References

Promzona.org

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

Airports built in the Soviet Union

Military

Active	Borisoglebskoye Airfield Burevestnik Dzyomgi Kirovsk-Apatity Klyuchi Air Base Kondinskoye Levashovo Magdagachi Poltava Air Base Pugachev Air Base Rzhev Air Base Samara Kryazh Saratov West Air Base Tatishchevo Air Base Tiksi West Airfield Tilichiki Tushino Airfield Uka Yaroslavl Levtsovo Yevpatoria Yugorsk Sovetsky

Defunct	Baherove Air Base Bakharevka Jonava Lenino Saratov South Air Base Smirnykh Air Base Tiksi Vetrovoye Air Base

Civilian

Active

International

Defunct

International	Donetsk

Joint Use

Active

International	Baikal Manas Odessa Perm Zhukovsky Sevastopol

Defunct

Pskov

Other

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