Zyabrovka (air base)

Zyabrovka is a military air base located 16 km southeast of Gomel, Gomel Region, Belarus.
From November 1951 to July 1957 the 50th Air Army of Soviet [Long Range Aviation|Long-Range Aviation] included the 144th Fighter Aviation Division with its headquarters at Mogilev, Mogilev Oblast, Belorussian SSR. The division's 439th Fighter Aviation Regiment was flying MiG-15s and MiG-17s during that period from Zyabrovka. The regiment disbanded on 1 April 1958.
By the early 1960s Tupolev Tu-16R aircraft were flying from the base. The airfield was renovated in 1963. It received the Tu-22R around 1966, and by 1967 had 24 based there. Pribytki was one of nine major operating locations for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder in the mid-1960s. The reconnaissance aircraft were tasked with operations in the Baltic and northern Europe. From 1973 into the 1980s pilots from Libya and Iraq trained in the Tu-22 here. The Tu-22 units were disbanded in 1994 and the aircraft sent to Engels-2 for disposal.
Pribytki was home to 290 Gv ODRAP flying Tu-16R from the early 1960s to 1994 and the Tu-22RDM from the 1960s to 1994; plus a number of Tu-22R aircraft.
From 1960 to 1980 the regiment was part of the 6th Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps, and from 1980 to 1994, the 46th Air Army.
During the 2022 [Russian invasion of Ukraine] the Russian military deployed attack helicopters here.