The Soviet 217th Fighter-Bomber Air Regiment's
 life at Kzyl-Arvat airport in the seventies

From Soviet Turkestan Military District’s Kzyl-Arvat airport, the Soviet Air Defence’s 2nd Guard Fighter Air Regiments moved to the Chinese border Transbaikal Asian Military District. The 217th Fighter-Bomber Air Regiment was formed here near the Iran border. They inherited the airport and aircraft shelters.

This was a very difficult period for the military crew and their families who settled here. The city of Kzyl-Arvat was built in the desert. It had a river, but it only had water in it in the spring. Drinking water was shipped here from the Northern Krasovodovod. It was only in the early seventies that the drinking water channel came here.

The MiG-21PFM Fishbed-F fighter-bomber model was replaced by a second-hand Su-17 Fitter-C (early basic version) in 1979 at the 217th Fighter-Bomber Air Regiment in Kzyl-Arvat airport.

Photos: Yuri Kondrikov, Sergey Kislov, Mikhail Mironov, Igor Sirota, Yuriy Lantsova, Lydia Chatova, AS Bhutin collections

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