Burevestnik Airport

UHSB / BVV

Description

Burevestnik (also Iturup; Japanese: 天寧飛行場, Tennei-hikōjyō) (IATA: BVV, ICAO: UHSB) is a military air base on Iturup Island, Russia, establishing the nation's presence on the disputed South Kuril Islands with the largest airfield in the region. It is also the former Soviet Union's most remote interceptor base. An Army helicopter combat support squadron was also stationed at the airfield in the early 1980s, providing limited fire support and transport capability. Burevestnik's communications and logistics were tied to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and supplies were flown in weekly on An-12 aircraft.

Management

Maxim Osmolovskiy *

Location

Region

Eastern Russia

FIR

Khabarovsk

APT coordinates

44.92000, 147.62199 

Elevation

79 ft / ≈24 m

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