Tolmachevo Airport
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Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Толмачёво) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is situated in Ob town, 16 km from center of Novosibirsk, an industrial and scientific center in Siberia, Russia's third largest city. Operations began on July 12 1957 with the first passenger flight of Tupolev Tu-104 from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The airport was owned by United Tolmachevo Aviation Enterprise and Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR until 1992. The airport then became a joint stock company in 1995, with 51% owned by the state.
There is a 3,600 m (11,811 ft) active runway in Tolmachevo Airport and another 3,605 m runway under construction, along with 2 passenger terminals, 1 cargo terminal and 61 aircraft stands. The international terminal was renovated in 1997. Tolmachevo Airport is also the first Russian airport to receive ISO 9002-96 certificate.
More than 1.87 million passengers passed through the airport in 2007[1]..
Airlines and destinations
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- AiRUnion (Krasnodar, Mirny, Rostov-on-Don)
- Armavia (Yerevan)
- Atlant-Soyuz Airlines
- China Southern Airlines (Ürümqi)
- Dalavia (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Hainan Airlines (Beijing)
- Interavia Airlines (Baku, Bishkek, Raduzhnyi)
- Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)
- Kyrgyzstan Airlines (Bishkek)
- Rossiya (Beijing, St. Petersburg)
- Russian Sky Airlines
- Samara Airlines (Irkutsk)
- S7 Airlines (Sochi-Adler, Anapa, Antalya, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bourgas, Beijing, Chita, Dubai, Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Hanover, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Khudgant, Krasnodar, Magadan, Moscow-Domodedovo, Norilsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sanya, Seoul-Incheon, Simferopol, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Urumqi, Varna, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yerevan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- Sibaviatrans (Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk)
- Tajik Air (Dushanbe)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
- Vladivostok Avia (Krasnodar)
- Yakutia Airlines (St. Petersburg)
Lufthansa used to fly to Novosibirsk from Frankfurt in the mid-1990's but discontinued service in 1998[1].