Surgut airport
| Surgut Airport Международный аэропорт Сургут |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | USRR |
| IATA code | SGC |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 60 m (197 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6 km north of Surgut |
| Local transport | Bus 13, 21, 22, 50 Marshrutka 20, 33 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | June 12, 1975 |
| operator | Novaport |
| Passengers | 1.72 million (2017) |
| Air freight | 3579 t (2017) 651 t airmail (2017) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 07/25 | 2792 m × 60 m concrete |
The airport Surgut ( Russian Международный аэропорт Сургут ) is an international airport 6 km north of the city of Surgut in the Tyumen Oblast . It is the largest airport in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug . Mainly national destinations - especially Moscow - are served. There are also flights to Baku and Sharm El Sheikh .
history
The history of the airport begins in the mid-1930s. In 1938 an airfield with wooden buildings was built, but this was mainly used for military purposes. The growing number of passengers (around 50,000 passengers flew from Surgut in the late 1960s) made a larger and more efficient airport necessary. The conversion to an airport as it exists today began in 1968. Five years later, on June 12, 1975, the new airport terminal was officially opened. The airport started its work in 1971. In the first year, 447,000 passengers were handled. This also increased the number of employees at the airport. While only 225 people worked there before the renovation, around a thousand employees kept the airport running after the renovation. In eleven years, the number of passengers has almost doubled to 824,000. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the airport was privatized. Since February 7, 1994, the airport has been operated by the private company Surgut Airport ( Russian ОАО Аэропорт Сургут ). The first step in expanding the airport after the crisis in the 1990s was the construction of 6 new aircraft parking spaces on the apron. In 2003 the runway was completely renewed and a runway lighting system was installed. A year later the fuel stores were renovated. The terminals were renovated in two stages in 2004 and 2006.
Incidents
- On January 22, 1971, an Antonov An-12B freighter from Syktyvkar had an accident while approaching Surgut 15 km behind the runway. The plane was destroyed and all 13 occupants were killed in the accident. The machine became uncontrollable due to icing.
- On January 31, 1971, an An-12B also crashed while approaching Surgut. The disaster can be attributed to the cold weather on the one hand and human error on the other. The pilots misinterpreted the instruments and put them down incorrectly, after which they lost control because of the icy runway.
- On November 1, 1974, near Surgut, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter collided with an An-2 from Khanty-Mansiysk to Surgut in bad weather . In the collision, the 24 passengers and two crew members of the helicopter and 6 people on board the Antonov were killed.
- During the approach to Surgut on the morning of February 27, 1988 there were visibility problems and the Tupolev 134 aircraft touched down next to the runway, broke and caught fire. Twenty of the 51 occupants were killed on the flight from Tyumen .
- On January 1, 2011, an engine of a ready-to-take-off Tupolev 154 of the airline Kogalymavia Airline exploded . There were 3 dead and 43 injured.
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Airfield and rear of terminal
Interior of the terminal
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Individual evidence
- ↑ aviaport.ru: Tyumen Airport is increasing in size . April 26, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ a b c Passenger and air freight volume at Russian airports in 2017. (PDF, 134 KB) (No longer available online.) Rosaviazija , March 1, 2018, p. 11 , archived from the original on March 28, 2018 ; Retrieved April 7, 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.
- ↑ NZZ-online: "Explosion in a plane in Siberia"
