Rogachovo (Arkhangelsk)

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Coordinates: 71 ° 37 ′ 6 ″  N , 52 ° 29 ′ 11 ″  E

Rogachovo (Archangelsk) (English Rogachevo, Russian Рогачёво) is an air base of the Russian armed forces on the arctic island of Novaya Zemlya , about nine kilometers northeast of the town of Beluschja Guba . The runway at 295 m above sea level is 2500 m long and 40 m wide. It was built for the deployment of long-range bombers and to prevent American 71 SR-Lockheed - reconnaissance aircraft . Initially, the 641st Guards Fighter Regiment was stationed in Rogachovo with Jakowlew Jak-28 machines, and since 1985 with Sukhoi Su-27 fighters. From 1990, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 interceptors were also present on the airfield . The Tupolev Tu-154 was used for transport purposes, for example when clearing-up and measuring technology work was due in October 1995 on the nuclear test site, which was operated from 1954 to 1989 and about 300 kilometers further north.

In Russia, Rogachovo Airport was commonly known under the code name "Amderma-2" ( Amderma is located on the north coast of mainland Russia). On December 14, 2010, an Antonov An-24 of the Nordavia airline with 32 passengers and four crew members shot about eight meters over the runway, but nobody was harmed.

In 2016, the Russian armed forces reported on extensive infrastructure measures in Rogachovo. The state-owned SpetsStroy company was commissioned with the construction work. According to the Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitri Vitalyevich Bulgakov, accommodation for around 100 people, a social building, as well as de-icing systems, garages and other buildings should be renovated or rebuilt by the end of 2017 .

literature

  • Vitaly I. Feskov, Konstantin A. Kalashnikov, Valery I. Golikov: The Soviet Army in the Years of the 'Cold War' (1945–1991) , Tomsk 2004 (Tomsk University Press) ISBN 5-7511-1819-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian-language homepage Novaya Zemlya (information about nature, history and infrastructure until 2010) [1]
  2. ↑ Data at Weather Graphics
  3. ↑ Eyewitness report by chief planner Boris Alexandrowitsch Andruschenko from the Russian Federal Nuclear Center / All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF) [2]
  4. ↑ Rudolph Herzog: The irradiated western hero and other madness from the atomic age , Berlin 2011 (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
  5. ^ AV Herald , December 14, 2010 Accident: Nordavia AN24 at Rogachevo on Dec 14th 2010, overran runway [3]
  6. ^ The Barents Observer , February 3, 2017, Busy building of bases
  7. ↑ SpetsStroy -Homepage
  8. ↑ Air Recognition , October 27, 2016 Russia to complete rebuilding of Rogachevo airfield in Arctic by late 2017 [4]