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[Jimrh1993]

@PablodNinja

Yep, also important to remember that in some countries (I don’t know if Russia is one), VFR private aviation is a pretty rare unicorn. So there might not be conventional charts.

Based on the few articles I have found on the subject, GA flying is a growing hobby, especially in more remote areas, and I hear that there are airports and aero-clubs that are just ITCHING to get you behind the wheel, (yoke ), of an airplane.

@PablodNinja

I know in some parts of the world the charts are still controlled by agencies that will not make them freely available. They are a revenue source. So getting them for hobby purposes isn’t reasonable.

If I remember rightly, getting real, current, sectionals in the US isn’t free either.  Just so long as the cost isn’t prohibitive, I don’t mind.
 

Here’s a close-up of Moscow.  AFAIK “UUP” = prohibited and “UUR” = restricted.

 

@PablodNinja

You are correct if you apply the U.S. style rules to that marking it would indicate restricted airspace. Even in the U.S., ‘Restricted’ is sometimes actually ‘Prohibited’. A great example of this being the area around Groom Lake Nevada, more popularly “Area 51”. This airspace is R 4808 N, a restricted airspace.

But I can guarantee you that airspace operates as if it is 'Prohibited" and you will never get permission to overfly that area. I suspect the reason it was done this way was when that base was actually still secret, they didn’t want to show a Prohibited space out there that would attract attention.

Here’s an interesting detail from that one map, showing an area slightly south of the “big ring” around Moscow.

 

• The area near top center, marked UUP-78 is the training and administrative area for what used to be the KGB - kind of like Langley Virginia.

• UUP-95 is, (AFAIK), the administrative and training facilities for the Russian army intelligence.

• UUP-94 is a facility in Podolsk that is used both by the police and the government for certain administrative functions.  I can’t imagine why it would be restricted, people go there all the time to get driver’s licenses, accident reports, and such-like.  Maybe the restriction is left over from Soviet times?

• UUP-404 is, if I remember rightly, a training area of some kind.

Most of this stuff is visible via Google/Yandex maps so it can’t be that secret.

I’m still trying to find out what the blue-dotted-lines represent.