goes back into 1941 with a wing of Polikarpov I-16. The air base hosted different types of the Soviet planes throughout the years, such as IL-28, MiG-15, MiG-19, An-14, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, and others. Most famously in the early 1990s it was a home of about 40 MiG-25BM defense-suppression aircraft, which represents the vast majority of this modification of MiG-25 ever produced. The base was controlled by the 95th air wing. The base's runway is 2,500 meters long. Industry Important industry: JSC “Shchuchyn plant “Avtoprovod” (found in 1958), JSC "Shchuchyn butter-cheese factory" and a bread factory. Education Primary and secondary education: three primary schools (each school combines grades one through twelve), a vocational technical school (VTS), a gymnasium. Also there are six government run daycare centres. Demographics Population of Shchuchyn: 1833 — 327; 1866 — 1088; 1897 — 1742; 1921 — 1539; 1940 — about 3500; 1959 — about 6500; 1970 — 10.3 thousands; 1991 — 14.4 thousands; 2002 — 16.3 thousands; 2006 — 15.8 thousands; 2009 — 15'042. Notable people Onufry Pietraszkiewicz, poet Fania Bergstein, poet Climate The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb" (Warm Summer Continental Climate). See also Grodno Region Jewish ghettos in Europe List of cities and towns in Belarus Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Soviet Air Forces References External links Photos on Radzima.org Photo gallery of the town Slownik Geograficzny Entry: Szczuczyn Diocese of Grodno. Site of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus «Scucin - the city of aviators» Site about Scucin and its long avia history Scucyn Populated places in Grodno Region Shchuchyn District Vilnius Voivodeship Lidsky Uyezd Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939) Soviet Air Force bases Holocaust locations in Belarus Populated places established in 1537