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» For the regional civilian airport at Magadan, Russia see Sokol Airport.
Dolinsk-Sokol (appearing in various forms as
Sokol,
Dolinsk-Sokol,
Dolinsk Sokol,
Solok [sic]) is a military air base in
Sakhalin Oblast,
Russia located 8 km south of
Dolinsk. It is a small base with no hardened areas. It existed before June 1966 according to declassified
KH-7 satellite images. Its chief operating unit was 365 IAP (365th Interceptor Aviation Regiment), flying the
Su-15,
MiG-23, and
Su-27 during its 40 years of tenure . In the
1980s it received the
MiG-31 . It is also listed as being home to 361 IIVP (361st Instruction Test Helicopter Regiment) flying
Mi-24 and
Mi-8 helicopters .
Dolinsk-Sokol is famous for being home to the
Sukhoi Su-15 that shot down
Korean Air Flight 007 in September 1983. At that time, base commander was General Anatoli Kornukov, who later become Commander of the Russian Air Force. At the time of the shootdown, Kornukov apparently ordered the shootdown to prevent KAL 007 from exitting Sakhalin airspace.
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