Dorokhovo (air base)

{{Short description|Air base in Russia}}

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Bezhetsk-Dorokhov

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| used = 1953 - {{End date|2009}}

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Dorokhovo (also Bezhetsk, Bezhetsk, or Dorokhov) is a former air base in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It was a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon) interceptors.

It was home to 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment (611 IAP) flying 39 Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s.{{cite web| title = Aviatsiya PVO | publisher = Aviabaza KPOI | url = http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/avpvo/ }} It also had MiG-31 aircraft.{{cite book| title = Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation | last = Butowski | first = Pyotr | publisher = AIRtime Publishing, Inc | year = 2004 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/611iap.htm|title=611th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO|publisher=Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991|access-date=4 December 2022}} From the 1960s to the 1990s the regiment was part of the 3rd Air Defence Corps of the Moscow Air Defence District.