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Ugolny Airport
Аэропорт Угольный
IATA: DYR – ICAO: UHMA Summary Airport type Public / Military Operator Federal State Unitary Enterprise "ChukotAVIA" Serves Anadyr Elevation AMSL 194 ft / 59 m Coordinates 64°44′6″N 177°44′30″E / 64.735°N 177.74167°E Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 3,500 11,483 Concrete Ugolny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Угольный) (also Leninka, Ugolnyye Kopi, Ugolnoye) (IATA: DYR, ICAO: UHMA) is a mixed-use military and civil airfield in Siberia located 11 km east of Anadyr, separated from the town by the waters of Anadyrsky Liman. The airfield was originally constructed sometime in the 1950s as a staging base for Long Range Aviation bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-22M (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome), but during the Cold War years it become the primary hub for civilian flights in the Chukotka region.
Though the Soviet-built Ilyushin Il-62 was a workhorse of the route from Moscow Domodedovo International Airport to Anadyr for many decades, sometime in 2006 or 2007 Transaero began placing US-built Boeing 767-300 aircraft on the route (and from July 30, 2009 - the Boeing 777-200). There is occasional charter aircraft service from Nome, Alaska to Anadyr.
Anadyr's history as a bomber base dates back to the 1950s and the Russian Air Force's OGA (Arctic Control Group) is responsible for maintaining the facility. Interceptors such as the Sukhoi Su-15TM were based at Anadyr from the 1960s to the early 1990s; in 1982, the 171st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO was transferred from Bombora airfield, Gudauta, in the Abkhazian ASSR of the Georgian SSR ot Ugolny.[1] The 171st Regiment reported to the 23rd Air Defence Corps, 11th PVO Army. The regiment was disbanded in 1992. No fighters are currently based there. In 2001 the airfield was visited by Tupolev Tu-95MS and Ilyushin Il-78 aircraft on exercise from Engels air base.
It was featured in the American novel Flight of the Old Dog.
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Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Bering Air Charter: Nome Chukotavia Egvekinot, Keperveyem, Lavrentiya, Markovo, Pevek, Provideniya Transaero Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo Vladivostok Air Khabarovsk, Vladivostok Yakutia Magadan, Moscow-Vnukovo, Pevek, Khabarovsk Cargo airlines
Airlines Destinations Volga Dnepr References
- ^ Michael Holm, 171st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO, accessed October 2011
External links
- Airport information for UHMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for UHMA at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for UHMA at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for DYR at Aviation Safety Network
Categories:- Russian military stubs
- Russian airport stubs
- Russian Air Force bases
- Soviet Air Force bases
- Airports built in the Soviet Union
- Airports in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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