Dorokhovo (air base)


Dorokhovo is an air base in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It is a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 interceptors.
It was home to 611 IAP flying 39 Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s. It also had MiG-31 aircraft.