Chuguyevka (rural locality)

Chuguyevka (Чугуевка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Chuguyevsky District, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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There was an airbase (Chuguyevka (air base)) where the 530th Fighter Aviation Regiment 3 Air Force and Air Defense Command – the villages of Chuguevka and Sokolovka 44.09091°N, 133.86804°W). MiG-31 aircraft were based there. In 1976, one of the MiG-25 was hijacked from the airfield Sokolovka to Japan. On 1 December 2009, the 530th IAP was disbanded, Mig-31 aircraft were transferred to other regiments of the country.

There is a General regime colony – institution UC-267/31 GUIN of the Russian Ministry of Justice for the Primorsky Territory (Novochuguevka village, 44.20701°N, 133.84102°W)



Famous people

 * The writer Alexander Fadeev spent his childhood and teenage years in Chuguevka. On the street 50 Let Oktyabrya there is a literary and memorial museum of A. Fadeev.
 * At the air base of the 11th Separate Air Defense Army of the USSR in Chuguevka, a pilot instructor, Art. Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, who took off on his MiG-25 6 September 1976 from Sokolovka airfield and flew to Japan.
 * Hero of the Soviet Union Alexey Lapik lived and worked in the village; a street is named in his honor.
 * Mikhail Badyuk was born and raised in the village – an air gunner-radio operator, a participant of WWII, Hero of the Soviet Union.