Smarhon (air base)
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Smarhon (also Smorgon and Smorgon Northwest) is a former Soviet Air Forces base in Belarus located 8 km northwest of Smarhonʹ. It was a small airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to the northwest, that operated as a IRBM facility until 1990. The airfield and IRBM facility is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.[1]
Smarhonʹ | |||||||
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| Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus | |||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
| Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||||||
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  Smarhonʹ Shown within Belarus | |||||||
| Coordinates | 54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1956 | ||||||
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| Elevation | 170 metres (558 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).[2]
After 1960, a facility for R-14 Chusovaya IRBMs was in operation, with eight surface launch pads and three silos.[3] In 1978, these missiles were withdrawn and it became a base for the mobile RT-21M Pioner IRBMs until 1990.
