Umbozero (air base)

Umbozero (also Umba) is a Soviet Naval Aviation and Russian Navy reserve airfield[1] in Murmansk Oblast, Russia located in the southwest Kola Peninsula 3 km north of Umbozero.

It is located 165 km southeast of Murmansk.

[3] No regiment is believed to have been assigned permanently to the base, and as it contains almost no infrastructure it is thought to be a dispersal airfield for tactical aircraft.

A nearby airfield with a 3000 m runway, listed on charts as "Umbozero South", exists 16 km south of Umbozero airfield.

[4][5] It was one of nine Arctic staging bases for the Tupolev Tu-22M (Backfire).