Vorkuta Sovetsky (air base)
Vorkuta Sovetskiy is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It was one of nine Air Army staging bases in the Arctic for Russian bomber units. It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region.
Sovetskiy was built in the early 1960s as a staging base for intercontinental Long-Range Aviation bomber strikes. The airfield was first identified by Western intelligence in 1961. It is maintained by OGA. The 364 OSAE was based here between 1980 and 1994 with the Antonov An-12, Antonov An-26 and Mil Mi-8.