Shaykovka air base

Shaykovka air base (Russian: Шайковка; State airfields index: ЬУБЙ), also given variously as Kirov Shaykovka, Anisovo Gorod, Anisovo Gorodishche, Shaykovo, Shajkovka, Gorodische, Chaikovka, is an airbase of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Kaluga Oblast, Russia located 17 km north of Kirov, Kaluga Oblast.

[citation needed] On December 12, 2017, a ceremony was held at Shaykovka air base when a fleet of Tu-22M3 returned from the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war.

Lieutenant general and long-range-aviation commander Sergey Kobylash awarded the returning crews with the medal "Participant of the military operation in Syria".

[7][8] On 27 June 2022, the Russian Armed Forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, hitting the Amstor shopping mall and the Kredmash road machinery plant.

[9] On 20 October 2024, the Shaykovka air base chief of staff and bomber pilot responsible for recent attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, was found dead in an apple orchard in Bryansk Oblast, apparently a targeted assassination.

NASA FIRMS 's measure tool shows a runway extension to 3.00 km
Tu-22M3 taxiing at Shaykovka air base in 2017 after bombing missions in Syria