 The base also played host briefly to the 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s, when it returned from Mikha Tskhakaya (Senaki), Georgia in 1992; it was quickly disbanded.The airfield was created in the early 1940s and named after the nearby village of Baranivka, located on the banks of the Bagay River.In those years, the 8th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment was based at the aerodrome, specializing in personnel training for the units used the Yak fighter aircraft, and also, flying tests with Yak aircraft produced by the Saratov Aviation Plant.