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Re: Help identifying location - Riga-Splive or not?
E. Nord -
Flugplatz Siverskaya near Krasnogvardeisk on the Leningrad front, or Flugplatz Novgorod Severski to the north of Konotop on the Central Sector of the front in Russia? Your map link shows the former so that must be the one. IIRC, Siverskaya was a pre-war Soviet military airfield and there was no terminal building. See below under Infrastructure:
Siwerskaja (RUSS) (a.k.a. Siverskaya) (ZNr. 10-0191) (59 21 24 N – 30 02 11 E)
General: airfield (Fliegerhorst) in N Russia 67 km SSW of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) and 30 km S of Krasnogvardeisk (Gatchina). Airfield located NW of Siverskaya village and immediately W of the Luga-Krasnogvardeisk railway line.
History: built in 1937 as a VVS base on a landing ground that was first reported there in 1933. The Siverskaya-Gatchina area was taken by German forces in mid-Sep 41 and then evacuated in late January 1944.
Dimensions: 1350 x 1700 meters (1475 x 1860 yards).
Surface and Runways: dirt and grass with a runway of dirt, sand and gravel measuring 1180 meters (1290 yards).
Fuel and Ammunition: both stocked and available.
Infrastructure: had 6 hangars in a row along the side of a taxiway in 1941, but by 1944 these had all been burned out as a result of demolition and bombing. According to German reports, there were a total of 15 concrete hangars by the beginning of 1944, but this seems doubtful or excessive even though the Luftwaffe did build some additional structures while in German hands. Workshops and warehouse storage facilities were near the hangars. There was 1 x 3-storey barrack building along a road leading to the airfield from the village of Vyra.
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