Not far from the village of Kinel, Cherkassy, Samara region, there is an abandoned military unit previously numbered 62977. Military town, equipment repair shop and airfield
The airfield is located 85 km from Samara. It has existed since about 1940. Has a concrete runway of two kilometers. Since 1960, it has hosted the DOSAAF aviation training center, where pilots were trained on the L-29 and MiG-17 aircraft. In the early 90s, after the collapse of the USSR, the center was closed. According to some information, during the years of the existence of the UAC DOSAAF, the singer A. Marshal underwent an internship there.
Since the beginning of 1993, the Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters of the 793rd separate combat-transport helicopter regiment were based at the airfield. At the end of 2009, the regiment was disbanded, the helicopters were transferred to other airfields. But not all. There was also an attempt to form a flying club on the Mi-2, but it did not exist for six months.
Photo from the archive, now in this place most likely nothing is left ...