Gromovo

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Gromovo
Summary
Airport teepMilitar
OperatorRoushie Air Force
Elevation AMSL230  ft / 70  m
Runways
Direction Lenth 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 centre 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.[1] It is locatit anerlie 90 km north o Saunt Petersburg (Leningrad).

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  1. "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.

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