It was 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 (Flagon) interceptors.

It was home to 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment (611 IAP) flying 39 Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s.

[2][3] From the 1960s to the 1990s the regiment was part of the 3rd Air Defence Corps of the Moscow Air Defence District.

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