Smarhon (air base)

Smarhon (also Smorgon and Smorgon Northwest) is a former Soviet Air Forces base in Belarus located 8 km northwest of Smarhonʹ. It was a small airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to the northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.

Smarhonʹ
Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus
Site information
Type	Air Base
Operator	Soviet Air Forces
Location
Smarhonʹ Shown within Belarus
Coordinates	54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E
Site history
Built	1956 (1956)
Airfield information
Elevation	170 metres (558 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 16/34 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) Concrete

The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).^[1]