Lebyazhye (air base)

Lebyazhye (also given as Kamyshin Northwest, Lebyazh'ye, Gromovo, Kotly, and Mikhailovka) is a former air base in Russia located 18 km northwest of Kamyshin and 170 km north of Volgograd.

The base has an unusually wide runway and large tarmac space.

The 1 Gv IAPIB used to fall under the 1080th Training Aviation Centre for Retraining of Personnel (1080 UATs PLS) at Borisoglebsk.

[2] 3rd Bomber Aviation Regiment arrived from Szprotawa, Poland, on 4 June 1992 (where it had been part of 149th Bomber Aviation Division), and disbanded at Lebyazhe, Volgograd Oblast sometime in the later part of that year.

[4] In 2009, the equipment of the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, in connection with the reform, was transferred to the Morozov air base, the personnel were partially added to the staff of the Morozov air base, and partially dismissed due to organizational and staffing measures.