Polyarny Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Polyarny Airport
nativename =
nativename-a = Аэропорт Полярный
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IATA = PYJ
ICAO = UERP
type = Public
owner =
operator = Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
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location = Udachny
elevation-f = 1670
elevation-m = 509
coordinates = Coord|66|25|0|N|112|3|0|E|type:airport|display=inline,title
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r1-number = 17/35
r1-length-f = 10,170
r1-length-m = 3,100
r1-surface = Concrete
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Polyarny Airport ( _ru. Аэропорт Полярный) airport codes|PYJ|UERP (also Udachnaya or Poliarny) is an airport in Yakutia, Russia located 1 km west of Novyy. It services all types of aircraft. The airfield is built on a 4000 x 190 m gravel base, with the first 100 m of runway unusable for takeoff. It is designated as an emergency airfield for cross-polar airline traffic between North America and Asia.

Some Russian sources indicate an airfield at or near "Polyarny" for Tupolev Tu-4 staging flights to China to perform reconnaissance missions on American fusion bomb tests [cite web| title = Pages from a diary of the Colonel Strunova Peter Vladimirovicha's resignation | publisher = Airforce.ru. | url = http://www.airforce.ru/history/cold_war/strunov/index.htm ] .

Airlines and destinations

* Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise (Aikhal, Anapa, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mirny, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Novosibirsk, Olenek, Saskylakh) ru icon Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", "Summer Air Traffic Schedule 25.03.2007 - 27.10.2007 (Airports - Russian domestic)", 29 May 2007, p. 57] ru icon cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Flight schedule from Polyarny | work = | publisher = Polyot-Sirena| date = | url = http://www.polets.ru/cgi-bin/sh.pl?Mode=Naprav&CityFrom=plq| format = | doi = | accessdate = 2007-08-20]

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