Vorkuta Sovetsky
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, but it is unknown what type of aircraft were operated.
