It is the site of a well-maintained military training airfield.
The base is to the 644th Training Aviation Regiment which flies the Aero L-39C Albatros as part of the 786th Aviation Training Centre for the Training of Flight Personnel.
[1] The training unit at Michurinsk is 644 UAP (644th Aviation Training Regiment) equipped with 108 Aero L-29 Delfin aircraft listed as of the early 1990s.
[3] The 644th Training Aviation Regiment was part of the 786th Training Centre, headquartered at Borisoglebsk, in 2008, according to Kommersant-Vlast.
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