Magadan Airport: Antonov-72 with its unusual "engines-over-wings" manufacture. Many Soviet-era airliners were dual-purpose. These were built to mitigate induction of engine-damaging debris at rough, bare-earth forward military air bases.

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Magadan Airport: Antonov-72 with its unusual "engines-over-wings" manufacture. Many Soviet-era airliners were dual-purpose. These were built to mitigate induction of engine-damaging debris at rough, bare-earth forward military air bases.

Russian Far East:

Major seaport Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (53.024075N, 158.643566E), Kamchatka Peninsula, near Pacific Ocean

Khabarovsk (48.480223N, 135.071917E)

Magadan (59.568164N, 150.808541E)

July & August 1995