Vozzhayevka (air base)

Vozzhayevka (also Vozzhayevka Northeast (US)) is an air base in Amur Oblast, Russia located about 100 km southeast of Blagoveshchensk. It is a medium-sized air base located near an SS-11 missile field at Svobodnyy.

An Il-76MD destined for Vozzhayevka crash-landed at Astrakhan on June 20, 2000.

Units stationed at Vozzhayevka include:
 * 293 ORAP (293rd Independent Aviation Reconnaissance Regiment) or 293 OPIB (293rd Independent Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R aircraft in the late 1980s and the MiG-25 until 1987. The regiment was under 1 OA (1st Air Army, i.e. Far East Air Army).