[1] Units on the base include the 343rd Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment (343 IIAP), equipped with Sukhoi Su-17 aircraft in 1989-91 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and MiG-29E in the early 1990s.

The base also played host briefly to the 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s, when it returned from Mikha Tskhakaya (Senaki), Georgia in 1992; it was quickly disbanded.

The airfield was created in the early 1940s and named after the nearby village of Baranivka, located on the banks of the Bagay River.

In those years, the 8th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment was based at the aerodrome, specializing in personnel training for the units used the Yak fighter aircraft, and also, flying tests with Yak aircraft produced by the Saratov Aviation Plant.

On November 1, 2009, the 395th separate air squadron was transferred to the Air Force of the Russian Federation and reorganized into 929th test aviation squadron of the Main Flight Test Center of V.P.