Veshchevo ( ; ) is a rural locality on Karelian Isthmus , in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast , and a station of the Vyborg &ndash; Zhitkovo railroad . The railway track between Veshchevo and Zhitkovo was , however , dismantled in 2001 . Until the Winter War and Continuation War , it had been the administrative center of the Heinjoki municipality of the Viipuri province of Finland . Air base The locality hosts the Veshchevo air force base ( also known as Vyborg East ) , located 23 km to the east of Vyborg . The 66 OMSHAP ( 66th Independent Naval Shturmovik Aviation Regiment ) was based here with 45 Sukhoi Su-17M2 aircraft in the early 1990s . On March 8 , 1988 , Aeroflot Flight 3739 , a hijacked Tupolev Tu-154 , which was parking at this airfield was captured by Soviet security forces . The field is now abandoned
Aeroflot Flight 3739
Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
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