Sormovo (or Gorkiy Sormovo ) is an airfield in Russia , located on the outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod , some 8 km (5.0 mi) from the center city, just west of the Sokol Aircraft Plant . Legally, it is within the city's Moskovsky District ( Московский район ), but it is commonly referred to by the name of the much better-known neighborhood of Sormovo , which is to the north of the airfield. Moreover, between 1956 and 1970 the airfield (and all of today's Moskovsky District) was in fact part of the Sormovsky District.
4-455: Sormovo may refer to: Sormovo (airfield) , an airfield near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Sormovsky City District (formerly a separate city of Sormovo in 1920s), a city district of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia See also [ edit ] Sormovsky (disambiguation) Krasnoye Sormovo Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-582: Is 3000 m (9840 ft). Locally, the airfield is known as Airfield Nizhny Novgorod (Sormovo) ( Russian : аэродром Нижний Новгород (Сормово) ) of the Nizhny Novgorod Sokol Aviation Plant ( Russian : Нижегородский авиационный завод «Сокол» ). According to Sokol's website, the plant currently manufactures MiG-31E fighter-interceptors, MiG-29UB fighter-trainers, and Yak-130 combat trainers; they also upgrade customers' MiG-21 BIS planes, and manufacture small civilian airplanes (M-101T,
12-474: The Western sources, it is a military base with MiG-25 and MiG-31 aircraft. The runway dimensions suggest that this airfield was built in the 1950s as a bomber base. As of 2000, Google Earth high-resolution satellite images showed 14 MiG-25 , 6 MiG-21 , and a small number of older fighters and fixed-wing aircraft. The west side of the runway has a 50-m (164-ft) displaced threshold; the actual runway dimension
16-464: The title Sormovo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sormovo&oldid=1188800752 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sormovo (airfield) According to
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