Iskrivka Airstrip

Primarily economic reasons. The airstrip was part of a vast network of airfields supporting Soviet-era state-run collective farms (kolkhozes). With the dissolution of the USSR, the centralized agricultural system collapsed, and the associated agricultural aviation fleet (primarily Antonov An-2 aircraft) fell into disrepair or was decommissioned. The airstrip lost its purpose and the funding required for maintenance, leading to its eventual abandonment.

The site is completely abandoned. The former grass runway is no longer maintained and is heavily overgrown, though its outline is still faintly visible on satellite imagery amidst the surrounding agricultural fields. There are no remaining buildings, hangars, or any other aviation infrastructure on the site. The land is unused and has effectively reverted to an open field.

Iskrivka Airstrip was a typical Soviet agricultural airfield. Its sole purpose was to support 'aviakhimraboty' (авиахимработы) — the aerial application of fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals on the large collective farm fields in the Petrove Raion of Kirovohrad Oblast. Operations were almost certainly conducted by Antonov An-2 biplanes, the workhorse of Soviet agricultural aviation, which could operate from short, unpaved grass strips. It was not a passenger or military airport but a functional piece of local agricultural infrastructure vital to the Soviet farming model.

There are no known or published plans to reopen the Iskrivka Airstrip. Reopening is considered highly improbable due to several factors: the lack of any remaining infrastructure, its remote rural location, the high cost of restoration, and the absence of economic demand for such a facility. The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War further diminishes any prospect of investment in non-essential civil infrastructure projects.