Chkalovskiy Air Base

By the numbers

• 21,653 ft

  Runway, all told

  3.6 nm of pavement across 2 runways

• 14th

  Longest in Russia

  of 156 airfields in the country

• 371st

  Longest in the world

  of 4,677 with a measured runway

• 62nd

  Highest in Russia

  499 ft above sea level

• 20 nm

  Nearest airfield

  UUBW, bearing 171

• Concrete

  Surface

  Every runway lit