Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport
Komsomolsk-na-Amur Khurba Комсомольск-на-Амуре Хурба | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Aerospace Forces | ||||||||||
| Location | Komsomolsk-na-Amure | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 92 ft / 28 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°24′30″N 136°56′0″E / 50.40833°N 136.93333°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.airksl.ru | ||||||||||
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  KXK Location of airport in Khabarovsky Krai | |||||||||||
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Khurba Airport (also given as Komsomolsk South, Khurba, Uchastok, and Kalinovka) (IATA: KXK, ICAO: UHKK) is an air base (also used as an airport (Russian: Аэропорт Хурба)) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This medium-sized base has considerable tarmac space and an extended area of revetments. It handles medium-sized airliners.
The 277th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (277 Gv BAP) is currently changing from flying Sukhoi Su-24M2s in the 1990-2000s[1][2] to the Sukhoi Su-34 (AFIP "Fullback") with the first 10 delivered.[3][4]
The regiment was deployed to Lida (air base) in Belarus as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[5]
History[edit]
Khurba Airport began as a military airfield garrison Khurba-2. The airfield was built during the Second World War with its old original runway with length of 810 meters is not currently in use. At the airport deployed:
- From November 1948 to June 1962: 311th Fighter Regiment defense on the Yak-9, MiG-15, MiG-17 and Su-9. Disbanded at the airport June 21, 1962.[1]
- From October 1970 to September 1, 2009: 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment Mlavsky Red Banner on the Sukhoi Su-24M
- From 1991 to 1998: 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment (216 IAP) with Sukhoi Su-27 airplanes
Later, the garrison was reorganized to the 6988-th Air Base. The airfield was built for the Ministry of Defense standards with scattered parking, arched reinforced concrete shelters for aircraft and reserve a dirt runway parallel to the concrete.
The airport regularly worked in Soviet times with daily flying international flights for the Far East region.
1990s to 2000s[edit]
From the late 1990s to late 2000s, the airport was effectively closed to passenger traffic, in the summer time (periodically) flying to Moscow JSC "Krasnoyarsk airlines" airplanes Tu-154 with a stopover in Krasnoyarsk (once a week). In summer 2009, after a decade flights began to perform again in Moscow - the carriage is performed airline "Vladivostok Avia" in the aircraft Tu-204-300. In late 2011, "Vladivostok Avia" was purchased by Aeroflot, whose leadership has recognized the flights to and from Komsomolsk-on-Amur are unprofitable, and a major industrial center of the Far East was again left without a direct air link to the capital.
2010s[edit]
In 2016 the airport was privatized with its shares sold for 70.15 million ruble to a St. Petersburg "EVM Property". It is planned to resume air service between Komsomolsk-on-Amur and cities such as Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Okhotsk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Irkutsk. In the future, it will be established air communication with Moscow. It is expected that the airport will open at least five regional flights a week.[6]
Airlines and destinations[edit]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aurora | Vladivostok[7][8] |
See also[edit]
- Komsomolsk-na-Amure Dzyomgi Airport, which is north of the city
References[edit]
- ^ "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012.
- ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
- ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. January 2017. p. 23.
- ^ "Russian Federation - Aerospace Forces (RF VKS)". 27 October 2023.
- ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. December 2022. p. 30.
- ^ Аэропорт Комсомольска-на-Амуре приватизировали
- ^ Liu, Jim (7 March 2017). "Aurora expands Vladivostok network in March 2017". Routesonline. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ Прямой рейс свяжет Комсомольск-на-Амуре и Владивосток. primamedia.ru (in Russian). Медиахолдинг PrimaMedia. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
External links[edit]
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur Official website (in Russian)
- KXK - Airport
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