The base is home to the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade flying Sukhoi Su-27UB and Aero L-39C Albatross aircraft.

The airbase was erected 1933 by the Red Army and expanded 1942 by the German Luftwaffe and was called Flughafen Hegewald.

Nearby were the headquarters of Heinrich Himmler and the base was surrounded by the settlements of the new German Hegewald colony.

[3] A Tu-22 crash-landed here in 1969 due to a stall during the landing flare; this incident was captured by a movie camera and used in the motion picture Tenderness for the Roaring Beast.

Units stationed at Ozernoye include the: Currently the airfield is home to about 15 advanced fighter aircraft visible in Google Earth high-resolution imagery.