Uytash Airport
Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash" Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ" | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Russian Federation | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Makhachkala | ||||||||||
| Location | Makhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | Moscow Time (+4) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 12 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E / 42.8168222°N 47.6522944°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.mcx.aero | ||||||||||
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Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) (IATA: MCX, ICAO: URML) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and Kaspiysk cities. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.[2]
South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.[3][4]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo |
| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku |
| flydubai | Dubai–International |
| IrAero | Antalya, Istanbul |
| NordStar | Moscow–Domodedovo, Norilsk |
| Nordwind Airlines | Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm, Samara, Sochi, Tyumen, Ufa, Yekaterinburg Seasonal: Saransk (begins 1 May 2024)[5] |
| Pobeda | Antalya, Dubai–Al Maktoum,[6] Istanbul,[7] Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[8] Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg, Surgut |
| Red Wings Airlines | Almaty,[9] Antalya, Bukhara, Chelyabinsk, Istanbul, Namangan, Saratov (begins 17 January 2024),[10] Tashkent, Urgench, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan[11] |
| Rossiya | Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk |
| SCAT Airlines | Aqtau |
| Severstal Avia | Cherepovets (begins 30 May 2023)[12] |
| Somon Air | Dushanbe[13] |
| Ural Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg |
| Utair | Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo Seasonal: Surgut |
| UVT Aero | Kazan |
| Yakutia Airlines | Moscow–Vnukovo |
Accidents and incidents
- On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft collided and caught fire.
- On 4 December 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to Makhachkala, crash landed at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died.
- On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful.[14] Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities.[15] This event was occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Russian authorities of Dagestan blamed the "Utro Dagestana" channel, established by Ilya Ponomarev, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country".[16]
See also
- List of the busiest airports in Russia
- List of the busiest airports in Europe
- List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
References
- ^ "Объемы перевозок через аэропорты России" [Transportation volumes at Russian airports]. favt.ru (in Russian). Federal Air Transport Agency. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Страницы крымской истории. Памяти Амет-Хана Султана". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 23–29 March 2004. 59.
- ^ "Главная." South East Airlines. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. "Россия, Республика Дагестан, г. Махачкала, аэропорт ."
- ^ "Авиарейс из Саранска в Махачкалу планируют запустить в мае 2024 года (АвиаПорт)". АвиаПорт.Ru (in Russian). 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Pobeda Oct 2023 International Network Additions". AeroRoutes. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Podeba resumes Makhachkala - Istanbul Service From July 2023". AeroRoutes. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ "В Шереметьево празднуют «Победу»". kommersant. 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Red Wings Adds Makhachkala – Almaty Service From mid-July 2023". AeroRoutes. 13 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "В аэропорту «Гагарин» открывается регулярный рейс в Махачкалу". gsv.aero. SarAero-Invest JSC. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ "Red Wings Adds Makhachkala – Yerevan Service From July 2023". AeroRoutes. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ Бушманова, Валентина. "Из Череповца пустят авиарейс в Дагестан". Официальный сайт Череповца (in Russian). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Сомон Эйр увеличила количество рейсов в Жуковский - AVIA RU Network". www.aviaru.net. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ "Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel". AP News. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Josh, Pennington; Pierre, Meilhan; Ehlinger, Maija; Gold, Hadas (30 October 2023). "Anti-Israel mob storms through Russian airport as flight from Tel Aviv lands". CNN. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Dagestan governor blames Ukraine for inciting pogrom at Makhachkala airport". Novaya Gazeta. 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
External links
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