Vorkuta Sovetsky | |||||||
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| Vorkuta, Komi Republic in Russia | |||||||
 Satellite imagery of Vorkuta Sovetsky | |||||||
 Tupolev Tu-95 bomber in 2011. | |||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||
| Location | |||||||
  Vorkuta Sovetsky Shown within Komi Republic  Vorkuta Sovetsky Vorkuta Sovetsky (Russia) | |||||||
| Coordinates | 67°27′56″N 64°18′28″E / 67.46556°N 64.30778°E | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1960 | ||||||
| In use | 1960 - present | ||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||
| Identifiers | ICAO: XUYK | ||||||
| Elevation | 192 metres (630 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It was one of nine Air Army staging bases in the Arctic for Russian bomber units. It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region.
Sovetskiy was built in the early 1960s as a staging base for intercontinental Long-Range Aviation bomber strikes (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome). The airfield was first identified by Western intelligence in 1961. It is maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group). The 364 OSAE (364h Independent Mixed Aviation Squadron) was based here between 1980 and 1994 with the Antonov An-12 (NATO: Cub), Antonov An-26 (NATO: Curl) and Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip).
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