Orlovka
Vanished settlement · Russia
- Abandoned
- 2001
- Founded
- 1902
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 51.263, 128.720
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Orlovka was an airbase of the Soviet Air Defence Forces in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is close to Ukrainka, a Long Range Aviation strategic bomber base. In the 1960s Orlovka was a deployment and dispersal airfield, then was upgraded in the early 1970s following an increase in military forces near the Chinese border after the Sino-Soviet split. Orlovka is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area.