Anadyr Ugolny Airport

Ugolny Airport Аэропорт Угольный
IATA: DYR ICAO: UHMA
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Operator	Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Chukotavia"
Serves	Anadyr
Location	Anadyr, Russia
Hub for	Chukotavia
Elevation AMSL	194 ft / 59 m
Coordinates	64°44′6″N 177°44′30″E / 64.73500°N 177.74167°E / 64.73500; 177.74167Coordinates: 64°44′6″N 177°44′30″E / 64.73500°N 177.74167°E / 64.73500; 177.74167
Map
DYR Location of airport in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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.

The Soviet-built Ilyushin Il-62 was a workhorse of the route from Moscow Domodedovo International Airport to Anadyr for many decades. 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 to Ugolny. 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.

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