Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-27 and Su-30 fighter base north of Krymsk, in the Southern Military District.
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
- 44.9629° N, 37.9991° E [3]
- Identifiers
- RU-0089
- Other names
- None recorded
- Opened
- no opening date is given in the sources consulted; the airfield was a Soviet military field [2]
- Theatre
- The Caucasus
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Military
- Roles today
- Fighter and strike
- Operators
- Russian Aerospace Forces, 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Southern Military District · Russia, air force · as of Oct 2026 [1]
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
1st Guards Composite Aviation Division headquarters [1]
- Service
- Russia, air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- When
- as of Feb 2022
3rd Guards Composite Aviation Regiment, with two squadrons of upgraded Su-27s [1]
- Service
- Russia, air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- Aircraft
- Su-27SM3
- When
- as of Feb 2022
Aviation group of the 7th Aerospace Forces Brigade (the former 6972nd air base) [2]
- Service
- Russia, air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- Aircraft
- Su-27SM3, Su-30M2, Su-27, Ka-27, An-2
- When
- as of Oct 2026
Earlier
3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, formed by absorbing the 562nd on 9 January 2001 and renamed the 6972nd Guards Aviation Base on 12 January 2009 [1]
- Service
- Russia, air force
- Basing
- Permanently based
- When
- 9 Jan 2001 – 12 Jan 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 [1] [2] [3]3,000 × 60 m; source 1 gives 2,470 m and says satellite imagery shows it extended to 3 km | 9,842 ft (3,000 m) | 197 ft (60 m) | concrete |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Krymsk Air Base (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway
- Apron
- Hangar or terminal
- Helipad
- 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 “Krymsk” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]
Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.
Role today
Krymsk is a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter base, in the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army of the Southern Military District. [1] As of February 2022 it held the headquarters of the 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division and the 3rd Guards Composite Aviation Regiment, with two squadrons of upgraded Su-27s. [1] The Russian article describes the unit there now as an aviation group of the 7th Aerospace Forces Brigade, flying Su-27SM3s, Su-30M2s, Su-27s, Ka-27 helicopters and An-2s. [2] On the night of 14 November 2024 Ukraine attacked the base with drones; Russia’s Ministry of Defence said 51 were shot down and no one was hurt. [1]
History
The base’s fighter regiment absorbed the 562nd Fighter Regiment on 9 January 2001 to become the 3rd Guards Fighter Regiment, and was renamed the 6972nd Guards Aviation Base on 12 January 2009. [1] The airfield closed for rebuilding in 2011. [1] During the Krymsk floods of July 2012, Izvestiya quoted an eyewitness saying about 15 combat aircraft were flooded; the Ministry of Defence denied serious damage, saying the field stands on high ground and the water there rose only 10 cm. [1] [2] Afterwards 5,500 troops were sent to help rebuild the town, with a tent camp on the airfield. [1]
The airfield
A single concrete runway, 04/22, now 3,000 m long and 60 m wide. [2] [3]
Sources
- Krymsk air base. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krymsk_air_base (accessed 2026-10-28).
- Крымск (аэродром) (Krymsk airfield). Russian Wikipedia (secondary source, in Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Крымск_(аэродром) (accessed 2026-10-28). Current aircraft, runway (citing a USAF airport diagram, AFD-227) and the 2012 flood.
- Airport and runway data, RU-0089. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for RU-0089 Krymsk Air Base in airports.csv and runways.csv.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Krymsk.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/Krymsk.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.