User:Shakib Khobani

In 1941, a Soviet Air Force base and pilot training school were set up near the city of Kant, based on a school evacuated from Odessa. During WWII, 1507 military pilots were trained there. Since 1956, the school trained foreign pilots; among its graduates were both the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, as well as India's Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, Brigadier Pilot Shakeeb Khobani from South Yemen as well. --> In 1992, the air base was transferred to Kyrgyzstan authorities.