Gromovo

Gromovo
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport teep		Militar
Operator		Roushie Air Force
Elevation AMSL		230 ft / 70 m
Runweys
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	8,202	2,500	Concrete

Gromovo (Roushie: Гро́мово‎; Finnish: Sakkola‎) is a dounset in Priozersky Destrict o Leningrad Oblast, Roushie, locatit 18 km northwast o Sosnovo, an a station o the Saunt Petersburg-Kuznechnoye railwey. Gromovo is situatit on the northren shore o the Lake Sukhodolskoye, Karelian Isthmus. Till the Winter War an the Continuation War, it haed been the admeenistrative center o the Sakkola municipality o Finland. It hosts an interceptor aircraft militar base, which is an auld, sma fechter airfield wi a crude runwey extension frae 2,000 tae 2,500 m. It wis hame tae 180 IAP (180t Interceptor Aviation Regiment) which flew MiG-31 aircraft as late as 1991. It is locatit anerlie 90 km north o Saunt Petersburg (Leningrad).

Freemit airtins

• Steid aboot Sakkola municipality (in Finnish)