Smarhon (air base)

Smarhonʹ
Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus
Smarhonʹ is located in Belarus
Smarhonʹ
Smarhonʹ
Shown within Belarus
Coordinates54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E / 54.52333°N 26.30667°E / 54.52333; 26.30667
TypeAir Base
Site information
OperatorSoviet Air Forces
Site history
Built1956 (1956)
Airfield information
Elevation170 metres (558 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
16/34 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) Concrete

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. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.

The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).[1]

  1. ^ "405th Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 12 January 2023.