At 4:00 a.m. on May 13, I drove from Moscow's Midysi to the Russian Defense Ministry's Chekalov Military Airport on the eastern outskirts.
Photographers Yuan Liye, Savi and I, a total of 3 people, represented the Phoenix Satellite TV correspondent station in Russia.
The background of the interview was that in the context of the 12th International Arctic Council, the Russian Ministry of Defense organized 30 reporters from China, the United States, Germany, France, Spain and other countries and Russian media to interview the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
Chekarovsky is a fairly large international military airport, built in 1932.
The airport is located in the village of Chekarovsky, 30 km north of the geographical center of Moscow.
Chekarovsky Airport is first-class and is designed to receive overweight passenger aircraft, mainly cargo aircraft such as an-124, tu-154, il-62, il-76.
Chekarovsky's main operators were the Air Space Force, the Emergency Response Department and the National Guard Aviation.
The airport has two runways: one is 60x3000 meters long and the other is 60x3632 meters long.
Built in 1932, Chekarovsky has the largest runway made of reinforced concrete.
There are a large number of test instruments within the airport, such as wind tunnels, large aircraft engine test platforms, low-pressure cabins, etc.
Since the victory of the Great Patriotic War, it has been a special airfield of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On September 27, 2014, this reporter reported for the first time with the Russian Defense Ministry press corps to the Canadian-Syrian war, and took a special plane from here more than 20 times to the battlefield of the Russian Air and Space Force Base in Khmemim, Syria.
On December 23, 2016, this station received an invitation from the Russian Ministry of Defense to accompany the Russian Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe to Syria to perform condolences and performances, due to insufficient temporary seats, the request was reduced to 2 people, and the station did not make the trip.
In the early morning of December 25, the tu-154, which took off from Chekarovsky Airport, disappeared from radar after refueling in Sochi, killing 92 people in the crash.
These personnel include 8 crew members, 8 military personnel, 2 federal civil servants, 1 head of an international public organization, 9 media reporters and 64 actors of the Russian Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe.
Including the artistic director of the ensemble, the famous conductor Lieutenant General Valery Hallelov.
At nine o'clock in the morning of that year, I entered the live broadcast of the Russian military plane crash.
The news that came afterwards proved that 2 officers, including Sergei Abrosimov, senior lieutenant of the Information Bureau of the Russian Defense Ministry, were randomly killed in the line of duty.
Abrosimov is my friend.
Born on July 8, 1990, Abrosimov was born in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, and dreamed of becoming a soldier from an early age. After leaving school, he entered the Department of Military Humanitarianism of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense and graduated in 2012.
In 2015, after three years in the military, Sergei Abrosimov transferred to the Information Bureau of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Abrosimov and I have participated in Russian military exercises, military competitions and syrian field interviews.
After Abrosimov died in the line of duty, he was buried in the Federal Military Cemetery not far from my house, and every day when he came home or went out, he would look at the cemetery from a distance.
Life is short, in fact, it is the way back, some people may be earlier, some people will be a little later, no matter who will go home.
Figure 134 took off from Chekalov Airport at 11:00 and landed at 14:30 at the Russian Navy's North Murmansk Air Force Airfield. We were greeted by The spokesman of the Russian Navy, Colonel Alexandra.
The temperature in North Murmansk was only celsius, and it was raining coldly.
This is May 13, 2021.
To be continued