Russia to Reopen Arctic Airbases

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Russia to Reopen Arctic Airbases

Ria Novosti – Selected air units of Russia’s Western military district will start this year preparations to return to abandoned Arctic airfields, the commander of the district’s aviation Maj. Gen. Igor Makushev said on Wednesday. Military airfields in the Arctic were used extensively in the Soviet era, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 they have been generally mothballed. “We will start reopening airfields on Novaya Zemlya and in Naryan-Mar as early as this summer,” Makushev told a news conference in St. Petersburg. Plans for next year include the reopening of a military airfield on Graham Bell Island, which is part of Franz Josef Land. Read Article

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