Unit intelligence profile
Air Bases
- Subordinates
- 0
- Locations
- 112
Profile summary
Assessment
Identification
This record is best identified as a network-level directory of Russian military air bases under the supplied Ministry of Defense/Aerospace Forces hierarchy, not as a single installation. The placemark set aligns with distinct, publicly documented sites with different roles: Engels and Ukrainka as strategic bomber bases, Akhtubinsk as the 929th State Flight Test Center, Kant as a Russian joint military airbase in Kyrgyzstan, Erebuni as a Russian air base in Armenia, and Khmeimim as Russia’s air base in Syria. ([researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9091/CBP-9091.pdf))
Role mix
Verified entries indicate a mixed basing architecture rather than one mission set. A UK Parliament briefing describes Engels and Ukrainka as the two strategic bomber bases for Russia’s air-delivered nuclear capability. Maxar identified Akhtubinsk as home to the 929th State Flight Test Center and assessed in September 2024 that it was supporting regular combat-sortie activity in addition to testing. TASS reporting shows Erebuni conducting MiG-29 fighter activity in Armenia and Kant continuing to serve Russia’s regional-security role in Kyrgyzstan. ([researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9091/CBP-9091.pdf))
External footprint
The layer clearly extends beyond the Russian mainland. PONARS identifies Kant, the 3624th Air Base in Armenia, and Khmeimim among Russia’s foreign basing network. For Syria, Russia’s 2017 protocol formalized Russian use of land and installations at Hmeimim. OSW described Khmeimim in January 2025 as a key transit point for Russian activity in Libya and the Sahel, and AP reported on February 12, 2025 that after Assad’s fall Russia had consolidated troops and assets there while the base’s future remained under negotiation with Syria’s interim authorities. ([ponarseurasia.org](https://www.ponarseurasia.org/russias-foreign-military-basing-strategy/))
Operational relevance
This directory overlaps directly with airfields central to Russia’s wartime strike posture and force-dispersal measures. The UK Parliament briefing states that bombers were redeployed from Engels to Belaya and Olenya in 2023 after drone strikes on Engels. On June 1, 2025, AP reported attacks on Russian air bases in Irkutsk and Murmansk and repelled strikes in the Amur, Ivanovo, and Ryazan regions; by inference, that overlaps with placemarks in this record such as Belaya, Olenya, Ukrainka, Ivanovo Severny, and Dyagilevo. ([researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9091/CBP-9091.pdf))
Verification limits
Confidence is high that this record is a multi-site Russian military air-base layer. Confidence is lower on the current unit-by-unit status of all 112 placemarks: open sources reviewed verify representative strategic, test, and foreign-basing entries, but they do not independently confirm every listed airfield or provide a complete current order of battle for each site. ([researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9091/CBP-9091.pdf))
Geospatial index
Known places
AB Anadyr
AB Armavir
AB Ashuluk
AB Bagay-Baranovka
AB Balashov
AB Belaya
AB Belbek
AB Besovets
AB Borisoglebsk
AB Bratsk
AB Budennovsk
AB Burevestnik
AB Buturlinovka
AB Chebenki
AB Chernigovka
AB Chernyakhovsk
AB Chita Severo-Zapadny
AB Chkalovsk
AB Chkalovsky
AB Danilovo
AB Domna
AB Donskoye
AB Dyagilevo
AB Dzhankoi
AB Dzyomgi
AB Engels-2
AB Erebuni
AB Fedotovo
AB Garovka
AB Gromovo
AB Hvardiiske (Gvardeyskoe)
AB Iturup
AB Ivanovo Severny
AB Kacha
AB Kamenny Ruchey
AB Kant
AB Kapustin Yar
AB Khabarovsk Tsentralny
AB Khanskaya
AB Khmeimim
AB Khotilovo
AB Khrabrovo
AB Khurba
AB Kirovskoye
AB Klin
AB Klyuchi
AB Koltsovo International Airport
AB Korenovsk
AB Krasnodar
AB Krymsk
AB Kubinka
AB Kursk Vostochny
AB Kushchevskaya
AB Levashovo
AB Lipetsk
AB Marinovka
AB Michurinsk
AB Migalovo
AB Millerovo
AB Monchegorsk
AB Morozovsk
AB Mozdok
AB Nagurskoye
AB Nalchik
AB Olenya
AB Omsk Severny
AB Orenburg-2
AB Ostafevo
AB Ostrov
AB Perm/Bolshoye Savino
AB Postovaya
AB Pribylovo
AB Primorsko-Akhtarsk
AB Privolzhsky
AB Pskov
AB Pugachyov
AB Pushkin
AB Ramenskoye/Zhukovsky
Intelligence briefRF forces
International Aviation and Space Show
Gromov Flight Research Institute
AB Rogachevo
AB Rostov-na-Donu Tsentralny
AB Rtishchevo
AB Saki
AB Saratov Sokol
AB Seshcha
AB Severomorsk-1
AB Severomorsk-3
AB Shagol
AB Shaykovka
AB Sokerkino
AB Sormovo
Intelligence briefRF forces
Nizhny Novgorod Sokol Aviation Plant; production of MiG-31E interceptors, MiG-29UB fighter-trainer jets, and Yak-130 combat trainer jets;
AB Staraya Russa
Intelligence briefRF forces
Aircraft maintenance facility (Beriev A-50, Ilysuhin Il-76)