Kazruņģis

Economic reasons. The airfield was a typical Soviet-era agricultural airstrip (known as 'sel'khozaviatsiya' or 'SAK' airfield). These small fields were used by aircraft, primarily Antonov An-2s, for crop dusting and fertilizing collective farms (kolkhozes). With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the restructuring of agriculture in Latvia, the state-sponsored system that supported these operations was dismantled, rendering thousands of such small, specialized airfields economically unviable and obsolete.

The site is completely abandoned and unusable as an airfield. Satellite imagery shows the faint outline of a single, unpaved runway (approximately 400 meters long) that is now completely overgrown with grass, shrubs, and small trees. The land has reverted to being a field and is indistinguishable from the surrounding agricultural and forested landscape except for the faint linear feature of the former runway. It is not maintained in any way.

The airfield holds local, rather than national, historical significance as a relic of the Soviet era's agricultural infrastructure. It was not a military or passenger airport. Its sole purpose was to support the agricultural activities of the surrounding collective farms in the Strenči region. Operations would have consisted of frequent, low-altitude flights by An-2 biplanes for applying pesticides and fertilizers. Its existence is representative of the vast network of similar small airfields that were once spread across the entire Soviet Union to maximize agricultural output.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Kazruņģis airfield. The infrastructure is gone, the runway is reclaimed by nature, and there is no modern economic or logistical demand for an airfield at this specific rural location. Its short, unpaved runway and remote location make it unsuitable for any commercial or significant general aviation use. Reopening would require complete reconstruction for a non-existent purpose, making the prospect effectively zero.