Gan'kino Airfield

Primarily economic reasons. The airfield's existence was tied to the Soviet state-funded collective farm system (kolkhoz). With the collapse of the USSR and the subsequent dismantling of this system, the funding and centralized demand for local agricultural aviation services disappeared. The airfield became economically unviable and was abandoned.

The airfield is completely abandoned and defunct. Satellite imagery clearly shows the ghostly outline of a single unpaved runway and what appears to be a small apron or taxiway. The entire area is heavily overgrown with grass and shrubs, and the land has been reclaimed for agricultural use, likely as a hayfield or pasture. There are no intact buildings, infrastructure, or aircraft on site. The airfield is in an unusable condition.

Gan'kino was a typical Soviet-era agricultural aviation airfield ('aerodrom sel'skokhozyaystvennoy aviatsii'). Its primary role was to support the agricultural activities of the surrounding collective farms in the Rybnovsky District of Ryazan Oblast. Operations would have consisted almost exclusively of Antonov An-2 biplanes conducting tasks such as crop dusting, seeding, and fertilization. Its significance was not military or for passenger transport, but purely utilitarian and local, forming a small but integral part of the region's agricultural infrastructure during the Soviet period.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Gan'kino Airfield. The economic basis for such a small, specialized airfield no longer exists in its original form. Its remote location, state of advanced decay, and the lack of any commercial or strategic need make its reactivation highly improbable. The site is expected to remain abandoned or fully revert to agricultural land.