The airfield "Kubinka" (Moscow region)

60 kilometers from Moscow, not far from the city of Kubinka, is the eponymous air base, which until the summer of 2009 was a joint-airfield. Since 2011, the base is the location of a mixed aviation regiment, which includes An-12, An-24, Tu-134 and others, as well as Mi-8 helicopters. And from the same time the airfield "Kubinka" is the Center for the display of aviation equipment of the 4th Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Aircraft, or abbreviated as CPAT-4 for pulp and paper.

At the same time, until 2011, the 237th Guards Aviation Technology Center was deployed at the air base, which included the Strizhi and Russian Knights aerobatic teams flying on MiG-29 aircraft and the OKB im. Dry. Despite the talk about redeployment, the military airfield "Kubinka" is still the site of the deployment of "Swifts" and "Russian Knights", who proudly represent our country at all the air show of the world.

Aerial aerobatics group "Russian Knights"

They were born on April 5, 1991, and after four and a half months they were already spoken about abroad - the first Polish air show in Poznan opened their names. Since that day, the development of the Sukhoi design bureau for the uniform design fighter for all has begun. Britain in 1991 for the first time witnessed the aerobatics of the group, and from that time she was invited to participate in all Russian and foreign airshows. What is the secret of the uniqueness of the "Russian Knights"? The fact is that this is the only team of pilots, performing aerobatics on heavy fighters. The demonstration flights given to us by the Kubinka airfield include programs involving four and six aircraft, two planes demonstrating synchronous, oncoming aerobatics, as well as a single flight with aerobatics figures.

The story of "Swifts"

This aerobatic team, known all over the world, was born on May 6, 1991. In fact, their history begins in 1950, when the new 234th Aviation Regiment of fighters was formed. Today, the Swifts are part of this regiment. Its main task was to prepare and conduct traditional air parades over the capital, the first of which took place in 1951, on May 1. Since the mid-1950s, ground and flight displays of combat aviation began, the launching pad of which was the airfield located in the city of Kubinka-flights were shown to students of military academies, as well as to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff and all leaders of the Soviet Union, the pilots also showed their skills to military delegations Foreign countries. The beginning of the 1960s marked the expansion of the "Swifts" function - they began to accompany planes of heads and leaders of foreign states arriving in the capital of our country. "Swifts" are famous for the fact that they escorted the plane with the first Russian cosmonauts.

Emergency cases

The history remembers only two cases of emergency situations that occurred with both groups. The first tragedy occurred in 2006, when the Strizhye MiG-29UB was crashed right after taking off from the Perm airport "Bolshoe Savino". At the same time, the crew was not injured, successfully catapulted, and the cause of the accident was banal - birds were caught in both engines. The second case was recorded in 2009 in a joint flight "Swifts" with "Russian Knights". Two Su-27 fighters from the second group were wrecked, again no one was hurt.

Kubinka today

In December 2004, the Kubinka airfield opened on its vast spaces the first aeroclub in Russia - the Cuban Aviation Technical Sport Club ROSTO (DOSAAF), which is still one of the largest in the suburbs. This institution was erected exactly on the site of the Aviation Technology Display Center. Today, practice training sessions are held here, which precede real flights. The aircraft fleet consists of domestic and foreign aircraft. The territory is equipped with a dining room, as well as a hotel complex. Everyone can take a parachute training course today and take a parachute jump from a four-kilometer height, there are also courses on dome parachute acrobatics.

At the same time, the preparation process for the jump, flight, free fall and landing can be completely captured by the accompanying videographer. Preparation of paratroopers is conducted by masters of sports of international class and deserved masters of sports of Russia. Therefore, all those wishing to feel themselves a "bird of high flight" solve two basic questions, going to the airfield "Kubinka": how to get there and how to decide on a flight. It also teaches the art of piloting. After passing special training a person gets the right to self-management of the aircraft. Classes are conducted by reserve officers and graduates of aviation technical schools DOSAAF.

Reorganization of the "Kubinka"

Today, Kubinka accepts and dispatches international civil aviation flights, while all combat aviation units must be withdrawn from the airfield, since, as for the international message, since 1938 only military aircraft have performed such flights from Kubinka. In 2009, the airfield "Kubinka" was excluded from the list of joint-based airports. Thus, it will be a full-fledged civilian airport, and combat aviation units, in particular, "Strizhi" and "Russian Knights" may be deployed in Lipetsk. The proposed construction of an international business terminal on the terminal territory will be deployed on a 46 hectare area, and now there are 24 Soviet-era real estate facilities here. At the same time, the airport will continue to be a training center for the preparation and basing of aerobatic teams. Reconstruction of the airfield "Kubinka" should be completed by 2018.

Forum 2015

The first International Military Technical Forum has already been held here in the new Congress and Exhibition Center of the Patriot Park. Foreign partners were involved, showing new developments in the military-industrial and scientific spheres. Thus, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation demonstrates its readiness to establish contacts and cooperate with foreign states within the framework of the military-industrial complex, create new equipment, develop various solutions and introduce innovations. Within the framework of the forum, domestic military transport, fighter, assault and bomber aviation equipment was demonstrated .

Routes to "Kubinka"

The airbase is located five kilometers to the north-west from the city of Kubinka, you can get there by car, and during the period of various actions and events, there are sometimes laid specially organized routes from the railway station.

Railway

If you prefer to travel by public transport, then a train from the Belorusskiy railway station "Moscow-Kubinka-1" runs to the city of Kubinka. It is possible to use electric trains, following to Mozhaisk, Borodino, Dorokhovo, Gagarin, respectively, you need to go to the station "Kubinka". The trip will take approximately one hour and 15 minutes, depending on the number of stops made by trains. There is another option - for 55 minutes to go by express "Moscow - Mozhaisk", it must be "caught", since it runs about three times a day.

Metro, bus

An actual question for many going to visit the airfield "Kubinka": how to get to it by bus and metro. The first way - from the metro station "Park Pobedy" follows the bus route number 457 to the stop "Kubinka", go somewhere about an hour (depending on the traffic congestion). There is another option on the bus - to get to the metro station "Tushinskaya", and from here take a bus number 301, which travels to Kubinka about an hour and a half. There is a third option - the bus "Moscow - Kubinka", departing from the Shchelkovo bus station.

Own motor transport

Let's talk about the last and most convenient route to the airfield "Kubinka" - how to drive here on your own car. All comers are invited to go to the Minsk highway, smoothly passing to the M1 - "Belarus". You will drive through the settlements of Vyrubovo, Gubkino and Vnukovo, as well as the Forest Town, Krasnoznamensk and Sivkovo. The pointer will show the turn to the right, and along the Naro-Fominsk highway you will have to get to the "Kubinka". In this case, the road (of course, without taking into account traffic jams) will take no more than an hour and a half. Finally, there is another version of the car route. You are driving along Mozhayskoye highway, passing to highway A100. You pass Mamonovo, Odintsovo, Yudino, Perkhushkovo, Bolshie and Malye Vyazemy and Gary Pokrovskoye. Then turn right to Kubinka under the signpost, and to the city the path will lie along the Naro-Fominsk highway. This route will take approximately one hour to one and a half, with traffic jams - about two hours.