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See also: Ulan-Ude Vostochny Airport
Ulan-Ude Airport
Lake Baikal Airport
IATA: UUD – ICAO: UIUU Summary Airport type Public Operator JSC "International Airport Ulan-Ude" Location Ulan-Ude, Russia Elevation AMSL 1,690 ft / 515 m Coordinates 51°48′27″N 107°26′15″E / 51.8075°N 107.4375°E Website Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,997 9,833 Concrete 08L/26R 2,042 6,700 Grass 14/32 1,411 4,630 Grass Source: DAFIF[1][2], airport website[3] Ulan-Ude Airport[1] or Lake Baikal Airport[3] (Russian: Аэропорт Улан-Удэ (Байкал)) (IATA: UUD, ICAO: UIUU) is an international airport located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Ulan-Ude, Russia. The airport includes a single terminal built in early 1980s featuring customs and border control facilities. With capacity of 400 passengers per hour, the airport served 167,126 passengers in 2010, a 29% increase over 2009.
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Reconstruction
In 2006 the airport received a major runway overhaul costing RUR 330 million (USD 10 million). Another RUR 230 million was to be spent in 2007, finishing taxiway and parking areas work.[citation needed]. In November, 2006, the Russian government announced the decision to create a special economic zone 170 km away of Ulan-Ude at Lake Baikal with plans of upgrading the airport. The plans include building a second runway, enlarging the original runway, and improving passenger facilities – to accommodate one million passengers in 2010. Today in 2011, in airport already new arpon bus, edited international terminal and edited control tower.
Incidents and accidents
The Ulan-Ude Airport Domestic sektor
1971 - an Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-based An-24 has crash-landed on Bogorodsky island near the city. It was a training flight with one idle engine; the crash was caused by flight engineer who has switched off the second engine by mistake. Crewmen had got wounds; the plane has partially burnt down.
1981 - crash of an Aeroflot flight. An Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-bound Il-14, overloaded to almost twice of its possible weight lost its way and crashed into a mountain on Lake Baikal's Svyatoi Nos peninsula killing all 52 passengers and crew.
1988 - Aeroflot flight B-478 L-410 bound for Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) crashed into a mountain in very bad weather conditions, killing all 15 passengers and crew.
1989 - crash of Tu-134 on landing at Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) on a delivery flight from near-by Vostochny airport. The aircraft lost a wing and was then destroyed by fire. The crew escaped through a window. The crash was caused by pilot error; in conditions of low visibility the captain landed the plane 300m to the left of the runway.
1995 - Three armed and masked hi-jackers captured Mil Mi-8, which was being prepared for flight, and airport technicians. After ten hours of negotiations special services saved hostages without any fatalities.
2005 - A fire-brigade vehicle hit Sibaviatrans' Tu-134 parked on the tarmac. No one was injured, but the aircraft suffered minor damage.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Terminal Bural Irkutsk via Nizhneangarsk, Taksimo, Bagdarin A Eznis Airways Ulan Bator B Iraero Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk A NordStar Chita, Krasnoyarsk A Nordwind Charter: Bangkok(stoped for 1 month) B RusLine Manzhouli, Beijing B RusLine Krasnoyarsk, Komsomolsk-On-Amur, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk A S7 airlines operated with Globus Moscow-Domodedovo A Transaero Moscow-Domodedovo A UTair Aviation Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo A Yakutia Airlines Moscow-Vnukovo, Yakutsk A Technical Landings
Airlines Destinations Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo -- Irkutsk Ural Airlines Yekaterenburg -- Chita UTair Aviation Moscow-Vnukovo -- Irkutsk Airlines previously serving the airport
Airlines Destinations Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo Baikal Airlines(existed) Irkutsk Dalavia (existed) Vladivostok Domodedovo Airlines (existed) operated by Kras Air (existed) and S7 airlines Moscow-Domodedovo Enkor (existed) Almaty, Baku, Bishkek, Chelyabinsk, Dushanbe, Khujand, Moscow-Domodedovo, Öskemen, Yerevan, Mirniy, Saint-Petersburg Kras Air (existed) Krasnoyarsk Sibaviatrans (existed) Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk Ural Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo, Ekaterinburg VIM Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo, Vladivostok Planes
Planes Aircraft Airline Destination Airbus A310-200(as a parlament plane) Rossiya Moscow, Saint-Petersburg. Antonov An-24, Antonov An-28 Iraero and Bural Irkutsk,Krasnoyarsk,Novosibirsk,Taksimo,Nizhneangarsk,Bagdarin Antonov An-2 Bural ATR 42-500 NordStar Krasnoyarsk, Chita Avro RJ85 (Future) Eznis Airways Ulan-Bator Boeing 737-700 Yakutia Airlines Moscow-Vnukovo Boeing 737-800 S7 Airlines|(Oneworld)or Globus Moscow-Domodedovo Boeing 757-200 Yakutia Airlines and VIM Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo Boeing 767-300 (Future) Transaero Moscow-Domodedovo Bombardier CRJ200 RusLine Beijing, Krasnoyarsk, Manzhouli Ilyushin Il-76 Unknown cargo airline Unknown SAAB 340 Eznis Airways Ulan-Bator Tupolev Tu-154 UTair Aviation charter: Moscow-Vnukovo Tupolev Tu-214 Transaero Moscow-Domodedovo References
- ^ a b Airport information for UIUU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for UUD at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- ^ a b Lake Baikal Airport, official site
External links
Categories:- Airports in the Republic of Buryatia
- Airports built in the Soviet Union
- Buildings and structures in Ulan-Ude
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