SESTRORETSK AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Tho airfield was south-southeast of ;estroretsk
(29?6?6 c~ j% j, lroninCgad Oblast a northeast of
the LisiL:os (29 581 is/60 In N) .4Poninsula, 1 in.
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improvised airfield although some of its instal.
lations were improved It vas constructed during
the War. i ellowe.pls said that it was improved
between 1945 and 1947 and that the entire north
section vas drained. i runway, 100a.6Cp to 800
meters, of rolled sand was in the northern sec.,
tion of the field.
2. The following buildings were availables
a. Fifteen auall hangars, each 20x30 meters
(workshops and stores)
b'0 Blocks of barracks buildings for an estimated
1,50o men
o Three large three-story villas in which offi-
eers(.A,, and flying personnel) were quartered,
3. The field was occupied by 80 to 90 singleeengine
fighters with which individual, stunt and forma-
tionj occasionally also night flying, was practiced?
4. ighteen~to twenty-year-old women employees of the
Vaskova Tool Factory, northwest of the field, .'ere
given pilot training in the afternoon after their
worksoops
The field was in a restricted area and guarded
by &% sentries, Light 45-ram kL guns were emplaced
at the four corners of the field. searchlights near
the AA gun emplacements illur; h ated the field at
night.
6o :1, new asphalt approach road, 4* meters wide, was
built.
7. .~, fuel dump. with a railroad connect ion, Which was
connected. with the field, was west of the rain
road, southwest of the field
8o A. large radio and transmitting station was south
of Lisi-Nosy, in a 1i km square restricted area
which was surrounded by a wire fence except for
the side along the seashore. .1A towers, 12 meters
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high, equipped witb45-mm AA guns, were at
the four corners of the off-limits area. The
transmitting tower was about 120 meters high
and had two tapering steel masts. It was based
on a socket joint emplaced in a concrete pedestal
and was moored by steel trusses. several wires,
supported by masts, led from the tower across the
road and the railroad line to the three small
two-story houses beside the railroad line. Aed
obstacle lamps, eight meters apart,, i;ere fitted
at the tower from bottom to top. The restricted
area was -ucrded by U soldiers wearing blue-
bordered, red epaulets. 45-rin .,C, guns were
emplaced near the A quarters north of the radio
station.
9. The airfield, about l i km square, was 4C O meters
north-northeas~ of Lisi-lios, south-southeast of
Tarkhovka (29 589 E/6004'' 1q), east of the rail-
road line and'road.
10. Ten to twenty single-engine aircraft were perma_':
nently stationed at the field. Individual para-
chute jumps from biplanes were regularly seen over
the airfield in the ,uriraer of 1949 at altitudes of
from 150 to 200 meters.
11. An about 200-meter square area, surrounded by a
wire fence, was southwest of Olgino (30 8' E/590
09a N), between the sea and the coastal road.
A radio tower was in this area (see Nines 2) which
was called e naval transmitting station by local
residents. I wooden house, about 20 meters square,
was in the southeast corner of the terrain. The
radio tower was based on a concrete pedestal and
topped by a square frame which was illuminated
by, red lamps at night.
12o The airfield, abut 1.2z km, about 1* km east
of Gorskaya (30'01 ,:,48G 21 N)just south of the
road to Levashevo (30 131 46066t N) was surrounded
by ;woods. It had no cement runway but the subgrade
was firm so that it was serviceable even in rainy
Weather.
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139 Jo-me cantonment buildings, presumably repair
shops and quarters, were at the field. :.ore
cantonment buildinLe,s were in the woods.
14. Co-p;;s, former air force soldiers, said that
the field was occupied by 100 to 120 aircraft
of yak-3;,-2 and ~:I.-?10 types. The planes were
parked in the open alon;; the edra of the woods.
Flying was done individually and in formations
of up to 100 planes.
15. The field was p;rnlanbntly occupied. The officers
were billeted in Gorskaya, .,,Iersandr?vsk1 and
Lisi-Nos.
2 fnnexes (1) Sestroretsk :airfield
(2) radio Tower southwest of Clgino
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Sestroretsk Airfield
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1 - bui..r.inr,
2 Villas
3 - II _n ;ars
4 Rianv y
a - Aircraft parking site
6 t,Tovi a^ roa h road
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Radio P:)~-je.r Soutfiv,est of OIFino
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