Tiksi West Location 9 km NW Tiksi Country RU Coordinates 71° 41.6' N 128° 40.7' E (71.6933,128.6783) Elevation 77 m (251 ft) Runway 3000x50 m (9842x164 ft) 058-238°T (ABANDONED) Usage Military Comments and history This appears to be a strategic airfield that was being developed in the 1950s but was abandoned. Declassified satellite imagery is poor but some frames from the early 1960s show that the Tiksi North airfield was in use, not Tiksi West.     Mapping links Google Earth - http://maps.google.com/maps?&q=71.6933,128.6783&spn=0.1,0.1&output=kml Google Maps (map) - http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=71.6933,128.6783&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=71.6933,128.6783 Google Maps (sat) - http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=71.6933,128.6783&spn=0.1,0.1&t=h&q=71.6933,128.6783 Wikimapia - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=71.6933&lon=128.6783&z=14&l=1&m=b (Russian viewing recommended) Geohack - http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?params=71.6933_N_128.6783_E_type:city Sources Computations and data compilation: Tim Vasquez Coordinate data: Google Earth Elevation data: Google Earth Runway data: Google Earth ICAO identifier assignment: Return to index Dataset introduction and description Please direct comments and corrections here ©2005,2009 Tim Vasquez All rights reserved