Ulan Ude Airport
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Baikal International Airport Международный Аэропорт Байкал |
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Russian Federation | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Novaport | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Ulan-Ude | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Ulan-Ude, Russia | ||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 51°48′27″N 107°26′25″E / 51.80750°N 107.44028°ECoordinates: 51°48′27″N 107°26′25″E / 51.80750°N 107.44028°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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Baikal International Airport (Russian: Международный аэропорт «Байкал», Mezhdunarodnyy aeroport «Baykal»), formerly Ulan-Ude Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Улан-Удэ, Aeroport Ulan-Ude) (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 with customs and border control facilities. With capacity of 400 passengers per hour, in 2013 the airport served 300,564 passengers on 19 scheduled international and domestic destinations.
The airport is named after nearby Lake Baikal.
In 1925, the Ulan-Ude Airport began its first passenger service with the first aircraft traveling from Moscow to Beijing, with pilots Volkovoyinov and Polyakov participating in it. On 1 August 1926, the first flights started: Ulan-Ude – Ulan-Bator; in addition, the airport was a place for technical landing for flights like: Irkutsk - Chita and Moscow – Vladivostok.
In 1931, the construction of the first air terminal began, where in 1935 the construction finished. From 1966 the airport began to accept Antonov An-24 and Tupolev Tu-104. In 1971, there was a new runway constructed which optimized the airport to accept bigger aircraft like Ilyushin Il-18 from Moscow, where in 1980–1981 the runway was made longer by 800 metres, and it was opened by accepting the first Tupolev Tu-154.
In 1983, the first terminal stopped working, due to the opening of the new one and from September until October, the airport was accepting the transit flights from and to Chita, due to its closing, because of the runway re-construction. In 1988 and 1989, the airport started to serve a number of transit flights, including the international (Moscow – Pyongyang, including Air Koryo; Moscow – Ulan-Bator), shifted from Irkutsk, due to runway re-construction. That situation led to a huge optimization of the airport, where every day the airport accepted 70 flights, which 30 of them were served by Tupolev Tu-154. In 1990, the airport transferred 800 thousand passengers in a year.
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