MILITARY AIRFIELD AT BARANOVICHI

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military Airfield at hranevichi DATE DISTR. 29 J'ttly 1955
1. A military airfield wan heated to the sauthern aatakirts of Baran#!ichi 25X1
(N 53-08, E s6?09), duet rut of the 4wev-Yi ay *s railroad line o Caa straati=
of this airfield was started in 2qWx after this part of 31olarasaia was
occupied by the Sanrist Army. ' Colastrleetion was lute fed tko GMraran
oa boon of the area in Wonex.3,941.
Dacus ued the ZUW after they ocom9lot Us area.
the Osra .ns did not to say cebousiys vmrk an the field durthg the entire
period of their oaaVLtien. ?,
2, After World War II the airfield ens extended and reconstructed by the Soviets,
and it was finally bcep1etsd, in 3.94 or 1949.
the airfield covered an area of about 2,OO sic hectares.
Each of the three cenerete t rywWa was 1 to 20 as wide
inns an the airfield
( see the attached sketch for the layout of the airfield).
3. Soviet Air Force psrsaanal etati=ad at the airfield were billeted in barracks
located on the southern edge of saraanaviahi; these barraeka had been used
the 26th Cavalry ReginUt of the Polish Arley before 1939 ?
several hundred Soviet Air Airee officers in 8aranarioki
tu_re were usually
4, Jet fight not identifipd) were based at the airfield.
identified ae ,pets because of their swept-back wings and the
sound they sda while in flight. During the J1me 1953 uprising in Eastern
0ereelay, there were aweaa1 hmmdred, probably As =my as "0 (sic ), jet
fighters and several four-engine baebears at the Baranoviehi airfield..
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An aviation POL base of the Baranovichi military airfield use located in a
wooded area across the Lvgy-Darsnovichi railroad line. Appro elmtaly five
stationary gasoline tanks with an satiamted capacity of 59 toss reek and a
large nu*ber of barrels of gasoline wars stared in the open and covered with
tarpaulins. The contents mere indicated in large letters on each saline
tank. Several dirt vamds with ventilation outlets
=part of this PQI. bus was uoderx-I I L The POL area was ways g arded
by several arced sentries.
In 19149, same of the Air Force personnel stationed in Earanoripzhi,, ,toyether
with same aircraft and other ui nt k not specified), wsrre trans-
ferred to Sakhalin, the transfer created considerable
excitement in Haraanov a because the era coneernsda eapeaially their
wivesr were displeased at the prospect at going to Sakhalin. Several aonths
later seas replacements from Sabbalin arrived in Baraneriski,
Soviet Air Force personnel in aranaviahi led Vei is a dissolute life. Their
fret Iaxit drin]ei g parties, brsarls, and general i iiconduat often ironed the
ire of the local pejulation. This expensive fur costs worn by the wives of
Air Faroe personnel were a cause of wry and iritternsas on the part of the
inhabitants of Barauariehi,
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