Sad to hear that. As with others, there will be fewer and fewer as the years go by. I found this...
849 [IAP] PVO. Air base [Kupino]: MiG-17, Su-9, MiG-23[ML]
History and personal recollections about the [kupinskom] air regiment.
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http://www.strizhi.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=kupino
Best for me, the entire forum is translatable in Babelfish, with the translate webpage option.