What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko is a 1980 biography by John Barron about the life and 1976 defection of Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter pilot Viktor Belenko to the United States.
Kilpyavr (air base) Kilpyavr (Russian: "Килпъявр" or "Килп-Явр", Finnish: "Kilpijärvi". Also appearing in many different forms as "Kilpajärvi", "Kilp-Yavr", "Kil'p-Yar", "Kilp-Yar", "Kilpyarvi") is a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia located 30 km northwest of Murmansk. It is a small interceptor base operated by the 941st Fighter Aviation Regiment) (941 IAP). Kilpyavr operated MiG-19, Su-9, and MiG-23M aircraft, and upgraded to Su-27 aircraft in 1985. Google Earth high-resolution satellite imagery dating to around March 2007 showed 37 interceptor aircraft on the tarmac.