Krasni Okny Airfield

The airfield was closed for economic reasons following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was part of the vast Soviet agricultural aviation network operated by Aeroflot. With the collapse of the USSR, the state-run collective farm system (kolkhoz) was dismantled, and the centralized funding for state-sponsored agricultural aviation disappeared. This made small, local airfields like Krasni Okny economically unviable, leading to their abandonment across the former Soviet republics.

The airfield is completely defunct and has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. Satellite imagery of the coordinates shows no remaining aviation infrastructure such as hangars, a terminal, or a paved runway. The faint outline of the former grass runway is still visible as a long, straight strip of land, but it has been plowed over and is now part of the surrounding farmland. The site exists only as a geographic memory and a faint scar on the landscape.

Krasni Okny Airfield was a typical local, utilitarian airfield of the Soviet era. Its primary and likely sole purpose was to serve as a base for agricultural aviation. Operations would have consisted of aircraft, almost certainly Antonov An-2 biplanes, conducting crop dusting, fertilization, and pest control for the large collective farms in the surrounding Krasni Okny Raion (District). It was a vital component of the region's agricultural infrastructure under the Soviet planned economy but held no significant military or major passenger transport role. The ICAO code 'UA-0087' is a national, unofficial identifier often assigned in databases to such minor or former airfields, not a standard international code.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airfield. The complete lack of any remaining infrastructure, the conversion of the land to private agricultural use, and the absence of the economic model that once supported it make any revival extremely unlikely. The cost of acquiring the land and rebuilding the facility from scratch would be prohibitive, and there is no modern demand for such an airfield in this location. The prospect of reopening is effectively zero.