Nivenskoye

Nivenskoye (also Severnyi, Uzhnyi & Yezau (US)) (Russian: Южный) is a former interceptor aircraft air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia located 17 km south of Kaliningrad.

A large mile-wide taxiway ring on west side fed a series of aircraft revetments.

Nivenskoye was a Second World War airfield, which was blown up by the Germans in 1945 during their retreat.

[2] From October 1952 Nivenskoye was home to the 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment [ru] (689 Gv IAP) flying the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, Mach 1951–1954; the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 and MiG-17P, October 1953 – 1957; the MiG-19S/P, October 1956 – 1977; the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23M, 1977–1989; and the Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker," a total of 36, from 1989.

[3] The regiment had received the honorary name "Sandomierz", in 1944, for participation in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation, and in the same year it was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.