The base is home to a detachment of the 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P.

[2] Kirovske was the primary anti-submarine warfare (ASW) test and development center for Soviet Naval Aviation, and it worked closely with the flight test center at Akhtubinsk.

[4] These were last seen at Kirovske in August 1979 before the runway was closed for expansion in the early 1980s.

[6] In April 2024, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported that Kirovske had Su-30 fighter decoys painted on its hardstands and that at least a dozen more Russian air bases had painted similar decoys.

The MoD believed the decoys were a reaction to Ukrainian attacks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.