Mineralnye Vody Airport

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Mineralnye Vody
Аэропорт Минеральные Воды
KMV Tu-154 Min Vody.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code URMM
IATA code MRV
Coordinates

44 ° 13 ′ 30 ″  N , 43 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 ′ 30 ″  N , 43 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E

Transport links
Distance from the city center 4 km west of Mineralnye Vody
Basic data
opening 1933
Passengers 1,921,669 (2014)
Start-and runway
12/30 3900 m × 60 m concrete

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The Mineralnye Vody Airport ( Russian Аэропорт Минеральные Воды ) is an international commercial airport in the region of Stavropol in southern Russia . It is located near the central town of Mineralnye Vody and is considered the largest passenger airport in the Russian Caucasus region.

Location and characteristics

The airport is located in the south of the Stavropol region and only a few kilometers from the train station in the city of Mineralnye Vody, which is a major railway junction in the foothills of the Caucasus . For this reason, the catchment area of ​​the Mineralnye Vody airport mainly includes the southern Stavropol region (including the Caucasian Mineral Water metropolitan area with major health resorts such as Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk ) as well as the neighboring republics of Karachay-Cherkessia , Kabardino-Balkaria , North Ossetia and Chechnya .

Mineralnyje Vody is the home airport of the Kavminvodyavia airline , which offers regular flights to Moscow ( Vnukowo and Domodedowo ), Saint Petersburg and Yerevan as well as international charter flights (e.g. to Turkey , Greece and Cyprus ). Other airlines include Aeroflot , Armavia , Azerbaijan Airlines , Rossija and UTair .

The airport is connected to the center or train station of Mineralnye Vody by two minibus lines. One of them also goes to the city's bus station, from which there are connections to many places in southern Russia .

history

The airport was established in 1925 as a small airfield and received the status of an airport in 1933 after a small reception building and workshops were built there. With the growing popularity of the Caucasus spas in the post-war period, the importance of the airport also increased. On May 14, 1961, the first jet airliner was dispatched there with a Tupolev Tu-104 . On February 9, 1972, carried out by Aeroflot, the maiden flight of a Tupolev-154 machine in regular passenger service took place on the Mineralnyje Vody– Simferopol route .

In the 1990s, Mineralnye Vody received the status of an international airport. In the 2000s, the airport's infrastructure was modernized and an international terminal was set up.

See also

Individual evidence

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