MOSCOW. Jan 10 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian government has accepted proposals of the Defense Ministry concerning airfields where both civilian and military planes are based, the government information department reported on Friday.
A government resolution adds two airfields to the list of facilities accepting both military and civilian planes. These are the Ostafyevo airfield, where planes of the Defense Ministry, Russian Defense Sports and Technical Organizaion, Gazpromavia Airlines, Sharink Ltd. Airlines and Konvers Avia Airlines, and the Stupino airfield, where planes of the Defense Ministry and Russian Defense Sports and Technical Organization are based.
The resolution excludes 54 airfields from the list of facilities accepting both military and civilian planes.
Defense Ministry planes will be removed from the Vorkuta, Krasnoyarsk (Yemelyanovo), Magadan (Sokol), Murmansk, Orenburg (Tsentralny), Bukhta Provideniya and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo) airfields. Emergencies Ministry planes will no longer be based at the Barnaul (Mikhailovka) airfield. The Federal Border Guard Service will remove its planes from the Burevestnik and Pskov airfields, Interior Ministry planes will vacate the Magadan (Sokol) airfield, while the Russian Aviation and Space Agency will leave the Voronezh (Baltimor) and Kaluga (Grabtsevo) airfields. The Mozdok Airlines will no longer have its planes on the Mozdok airfield.
The government resolution was passed on Wednesday and signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Friday.