Baikal Airport
| Baikal Airport Aeroport « Baikal »  |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UIUU |
| IATA code | UUD |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 515 m (1690 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 15 km west of Ulan-Ude |
| Street | A340 , R258 |
| Local transport | Bus 28 Marshrutka 77 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1926 |
| operator | OOO Aeroport Baikal ( Novaport ) |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 259,585 (2017) |
| Air freight | 2260 t (2017) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 08/26 | 2996 m × 45 m concrete |
The Baikal Airport ( Russian Аэропорт "Байкал" ) is the airport of the Russian city of Ulan-Ude and the largest in the republic of Buryatia . Until it was renamed in 2008, it was called Ulan-Ude Airport (Muchino) ( Russian Улан-Удэ (Му́хино) ). He bears the name Baikal because of the approx. 75 km northwest of Lake Baikal .
history
In 1925, an airplane landed on the airport's territory for the first time on the Moscow - Beijing route . One year later, on August 1, 1926, the first scheduled flight from Ulan-Ude to Ulaanbaatar took off . Aircraft also landed here on the Moscow - Vladivostok and Irkutsk - Chita routes . Construction of the new airport on the left bank of the Selenga began in 1931. In the following years from 1935 to 1941 aviation developed in Bujartien: Airfields were also built in other cities of the republic. In 1959 the construction of a new terminal building began. The airport runway was repaired in 1971. In 1983, on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the republic, the new terminal building was inaugurated, which still handles passengers today. At that time it had a capacity of 400 passengers per hour.
On December 11, 1992 the airport received permission to handle international flights. Nevertheless, air traffic fell sharply in the 1990s. Thus, the local carriers were divided into several private companies, including the OAO International Airport Ulan-Ude ( Russian ОАО "Международный аэропорт Улан-Удэ" ), in addition to the airport in the Republic capital of the airfields of places Nizhneangarsk , Taksimo and Bagdarin managed. In the following time, the focus was on cargo flights that stopped in Ulan-Ude on their routes to the Far East. When Russian cargo airlines hardly flew with Ilyushin Il-76 from 2005 onwards , this business area was dropped and the focus was on passenger flights. The runway was reconstructed in 2007 and equipped with a lighting system, which now enabled the airport to handle aircraft at night. Also in 2007, the Austrian investment company Airport International (then part of Meinl ) took over the airport. In April 2009, after only two years, it became known that Airports International was not operating economically and would part with its airport holdings. They were sold through the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
On May 25, 2011, the Russian investment group Metropol ( Russian Метрополь ) acquired the airport. In the following two years, around 100 million rubles were invested in the modernization of the terminal building. Among other things, the common rooms for the passengers have been greatly enlarged, the area after the security controls has been modernized and the capacities for passport controls and border crossings have been increased. In May 2016, the modernization of the airport was included in a state program for the social and economic development of the Far East and the Baikal region. In August 2016, the construction of a second runway started with a length of 3400 m and a width of 45 m. A total of around 4 billion rubles should be invested. In September 2017 it became known that the Russian airport operating company Novaport had acquired the airport for an unpublished purchase price from Metropol .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airports 2016/2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2018 ; Retrieved November 6, 2018 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Off for Airports International. Der Standard , October 22, 2004, accessed November 9, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ History of Ulan-Ude Airport. Baikal Airport, October 31, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 (in Russian).
- ↑ Novaport lands in Buryatia. Kommersant , September 5, 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 (Russian).
Web links
- Airport website (Russian)
- World Aero Data (English)