Sredny Ostrov Airfield
Sredny Ostrov is a small island and a military airfield in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located in the northern Kara Sea, off the archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya and almost 900 km north of Khatanga which in turn is on the Siberian coast. Sredny is an ice airfield used as an alternate field for Tu-95 bombers in the Arctic. It was built in the late 1950s as a staging base for Soviet bombers to reach the United States, and was maintained by OGA, which was a caretaker agency for strategic facilities in the Arctic. In March 1979 2 Tu-128 aircraft were based here. The airfield is believed to be operational, operated by Frontier Guards and capable of servicing An-26 and An-72 aircraft.
