Chuguyevka (rural locality) explained

Chuguyevka (ru|link=no|Чугуевка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Chuguyevsky District, Primorsky Krai, Russia. The Chuguyevka air base is located to its south.

Population:

There is a General regime colony – institution UC-267/31 GUIN of the Russian Ministry of Justice for the Primorsky Territory (Novochuguevka village, 44.207°N 133.841°W)

Famous people

• The writer Alexander Fadeev spent his childhood and teenage years in Chuguevka. On the street 50 Let Oktyabrya there is a literary and memorial museum of A. Fadeev.^[1]
• At the air base of the 11th Separate Air Defense Army of the USSR in Chuguevka, a pilot instructor, Art. Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, who took off on his MiG-25 6 September 1976 from Sokolovka airfield and flew to Japan.
• Hero of the Soviet Union Alexey Lapik lived and worked in the village; a street is named in his honor.
• Mikhail Badyuk was born and raised in the village – an air gunner-radio operator, a participant of WWII, Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Literary and memorial museum A. A. Fadeeva in the village. Chuguevka . 2012-07-23 . 2013-12-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131231072843/http://www.arseniev.org/about/?a=29&s=11&p=1 . dead .