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The 4th Missile Test Range "Kapustin Yar" was established by a decree of the Soviet government in "On Questions of Jet Propelled Weapons" on 13 May 1946. The test range was created in the desert north end of the Astrakhan region under the supervision of lieutenant general Vasily Ivanovich Voznyuk , who served as commander of the range from 1946 ...
Kapustin Yar is a military airfield near the town of Znamensk, Astrakhan Oblast, serving the Kapustin Yar military training ground, founded in 1946. Until the 1990s, the airfield had the code name "Picture" (previously – "Constitution"). Classed as an Airfield 3rd class.
It was founded in 1948 as Kapustin Yar-1 to serve a missile test range known as Kapustin Yar. Kasputin Yar-1 was granted town status in 1962. The closed town was renamed Znamensk in 1992. The military testing range is officially known as 4GCMP (4th State Central Interspecific Test-site). Kapustin Yar is also the name of a nearby village.
Kapustin Yar (Russian: Капустин яр) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kapustinoyarsky Selsoviet of Akhtubinsky District, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The population was 5,724 as of 2010. [2] There are 91 streets.
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Astrakhan/Ashchuluk: Astrakhan: Astrakhan Oblast: VVS HQ: 185th Centre for Combat Application and Combat Training for the Air Force: 116th Centre for Combat Employment of Air Defence Aviation [4] Bagay-Baranovka: Sennoy: Saratov Oblast: VVS HQ: 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov: 395th Independent Test Aviation Squadron [5 ...
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Astrakhan (Russian: Астрахань, IPA: [ˈastrəxənʲ] ⓘ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia.The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression, 100 km (62 mi) from the Caspian Sea, with a population of 475,629 residents at the 2021 Census. [15]