Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · Krasnodar's military airfield since 1952, home to a training regiment until 1993 and an aircraft repair plant.
A real-world airfield as described in public sources, and how sim maps represent it. Units, facilities and names change; each is dated where the sources allow, and the charts are not for navigation. Use current official publications for flight planning.
Location and identity
- Country or territory
- Russia
- Coordinates
- 45.0824° N, 38.9443° E [3]
- Elevation
- 105 ft (32 m) [3]
- Identifiers
- XRKL · RU-0090
- Other names
- Krasnodar (Tsentralny) [2]
- Opened
- built in 1952, when the 802nd Training Aviation Regiment arrived [1]
- Theatre
- The Caucasus
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Military
- Roles today
- Flight training
Units
Permanently based units belong to the airfield; rotational and temporarily deployed units are there for a period or an operation. Dates are when the sources place each unit there; "as of" is when a source described it as current.
Current
275th Aviation Repair Plant [1]
- Service
- Russia, air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- When
- as of Oct 2026
Earlier
802nd Training Aviation Regiment [1]
- Service
- Soviet Union (until 1991), air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- Aircraft
- Su-25, L-39
- When
- 1952–1993
Runways and facilities
The sources do not date these figures. Facilities not listed here are not documented in the sources cited, which does not mean the airfield lacks them.
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 [1] [2]2,512 × 40 m as published in source 2; source 1 gives 2,500 m | 8,241 ft (2,512 m) | 131 ft (40 m) | concrete |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Krasnodar Tsentralny (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway
- Apron
- Airfield boundary
Runways, taxiways, aprons and buildings inside the airfield boundary, true north up, drawn from OpenStreetMap data retrieved 2026-10-28. Widths come from the map data or, where it gives none, a typical 45 m runway and 18 m taxiway. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL 1.0. Community-mapped, not an official aerodrome chart, and not for navigation.
Sim maps
Represented in: DCS: Caucasus
DCS: Caucasus DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Krasnodar-Center” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]
- Runway 09/27 [4]
- Tower 122.0 MHz VHF and 251.0 MHz UHF [4]
- RSBN channel 40 and PRMG channel 38 (both MB), with outer and inner NDBs [4]
Differences from the real airfield
Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.
Role today
Krasnodar Tsentralny is the city’s second airfield after Pashkovsky international airport. It is owned by the Russian Ministry of Defence and shared with Interior Ministry aviation and the DOSAAF Krasnodar aeroclub. [2] It is home to the 275th Aviation Repair Plant. [1] The Krasnodar branch of the Russian Air Force’s Military Air Academy marked its 75th anniversary there with an air show on 3 November 2013, with Su-27s, MiG-29s, L-39s, Su-24s, Su-25s, An-26s, An-2s and Mi-8s. [2]
History
The base was built in 1952, and the 802nd Training Aviation Regiment flew from it until 1993, latterly with Su-25s and L-39s. [1] In 2004 the city planned to close the airfield and build over it, but in 2015 the authorities changed the city’s general plan to keep it open. [2]
The airfield
A single concrete runway, 08/26, about 2,500 m long and 40 m wide, on the north-west side of the city. [1] [2]
Sources
- Krasnodar (air base). Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnodar_(air_base) (accessed 2026-10-28). Short article: built 1952, the 802nd Training Aviation Regiment until 1993 and the 275th Aviation Repair Plant, citing Scramble and M. Holm's ww2.dk pages.
- Краснодар-Центральный (Krasnodar Tsentralny). Russian Wikipedia (secondary source, in Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Краснодар-Центральный (accessed 2026-10-28). Infobox (XRKL, runway 08/26, 2,512 × 40 m concrete) and joint use. Its elevation of 30 m differs from the 10 m in source 1; this record uses source 3.
- Airport data, RU-0090. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Row for RU-0090 Krasnodar Tsentralny in airports.csv: position and elevation.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Krasnodar-Center.json). dcs-world-schema, open-source data extracted by running DCS World 2.9.30.28536. https://github.com/YoloWingPixie/dcs-world-schema/blob/c3091e6c08fb8167e26145d0e33c10e4140c6fe7/dcs-world-reference/latest/airbases/Caucasus/Krasnodar-Center.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Caucasus map page.
Wikipedia articles are secondary sources and can change; they are cited with the date they were read. FAA airport data and diagrams are official but are reissued every 28 or 56 days; each is cited with the edition read. pydcs mirrors the DCS terrain data at the commit linked.