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Koltsovo International Airport

Coordinates: 56°44′29″N 60°48′13″E / 56.74139°N 60.80361°E / 56.74139; 60.80361
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Koltsovo Airport

Аэропорт Кольцово
File:Koltsovo Airport.svg
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorKoltsovo International Airport
LocationYekaterinburg
Elevation AMSL764 ft / 233 m
Coordinates56°44′29″N 60°48′13″E / 56.74139°N 60.80361°E / 56.74139; 60.80361
Websitehttp://www.koltsovo.ru/
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08R/26L 9,925 3,025 Concrete
08L/26R 8,192 2,497 Asphalt

Koltsovo Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Кольцово) (IATA: SVX, ICAO: USSS) is an international airport located 16 km (10 mi) southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The airport is a hub for Ural Airlines and Aviacon Zitotrans.

The airport was opened in 1928 as a military airbase and became a civilian airport on July 10, 1943. In October 1993 it acquired international status.

Terminals A and B

As of 2005, Koltsovo is the fifth largest airport in Russia and a member of Airports Council International (ACI). In 2006, it handled 1,764,948 passengers and 15,519 metric tonnes of cargo. In 2007, it handled 2,345,097 passengers, representing a 32.9% increase compared to the previous year. The airport has sixty aircraft stands and serves more than 50 destinations worldwide including a dozen in Europe.

The new international terminal opened in December 2005, and the new domestic terminal in October 2007[1]. A new logistics center and a large cargo terminal are currently under construction. A third runway has been constructed in June 2009, enabling the airport to handle all types of heavy aircraft, including the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380. Koltsovo Airport is also officially able to handle Airbus A320, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, and Airbus A330. The new air traffic control tower was also completed in June.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air China Beijing-Capital
Air Volga Novyi Urengoy, Nadym, Salekhard, Surgut, Tomsk, Volgograd
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Mirny, Novosibirsk
Armavia Yerevan
Avianova Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Belavia Minsk
Czech Airlines Prague
Donavia Rostov-on-Don
Finnair Helsinki
Flydubai Dubai (begins October 16th)
Izhavia Izhevsk
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Nordavia Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Rossiya St Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Sky Express Moscow-Vnukovo
Tajik Air Dushanbe, Khudzand, Kurgan-Tube [1]
Transaero Airlines Bangkok-Suvarnbabhumi [seasonal], Hurghada [seasonal], Moscow-Domodedovo, Phuket [seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh [seasonal]
Turan Air Baku
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, Antalya [seasonal]
UTair Aviation Beloyarkyi, Khanty-Mansiysk, Irkutsk, Makhachkala, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Surgut
Ural Airlines Almaty, Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnbabhumi [seasonal], Baku, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Dubai, Ganja, Heraklion [seasonal], Irkutsk, Larnaca [seasonal], Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Namangan, Novosibirsk, Prague, Pula [seasonal], Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, Salekhard, Samara, Simferopol, Sochi, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Tivat [seasonal], Vienna, Vladivostok, Yerevan
Uzbekistan Airways Taskhent
Vladivostok Air Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow-Vnukovo, Tianjin [charter], Vladivostok
Yamal Airlines Salekhard

References