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Zernograd air base

airbase in Rostov Oblast, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ65172024 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zernograd is an airbase of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Zernograd, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

The base is home to the 16th Army Aviation Brigade.

106th Training Aviation Regiment between 1969 and 1995.

286th independent Helicopter Squadron for Electronic Warfare between 1992 and 1998.

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“Zernograd air base” enters the record as airbase in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zernograd, base and airbase can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1995, 1992, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zernograd, base and airbase.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65172024. Authority coordinates are 46.829, 40.381. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1995, 1992 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zernograd air base” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.