 According to a book by Károly Vándor, this airfield was one of the military facilities in which nuclear weapons were held during the Cold War.The Soviet 328th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment, Southern Group of Forces, was stationed at Kunmadaras until 1990–91, whereupon it was withdrawn back to the Odessa region and disbanded.In 2001 the inhabitants of the village declared themselves as 95% Hungarian and 5% Romanis.