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Greem Bell (, lit. Graham Bell) is an airfield of the Russian Air Force in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is located on Graham Bell Island in the Franz Josef Archipelago, 1372 km north of Khatanga, and is the northernmost airfield in Russia, at latitude 81°N. It is an ice airfield operational only during the winter months,Ice aerodrome at Greem-Bella and its final destruction (Russian), accessed 2018-05-23. roughly from the end of November to the beginning of March, and uses the internal callsign XLDG.Indexes of Airports, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Centre of Aeronautical Information, 2010 edition. Greem Bell Airfield was shut down in 1994, but re-opened in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

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