Ufa International Airport

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Ufa International Airport
Өфө халыҡ-ара аэропорты
Международный аэропорт Уфа
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Ufa International Airport.jpg
Ufa International Airport
IATA: UFA – ICAO: UWUU
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Ufa International Airport"
Serves Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
Elevation AMSL 137 m / 449 ft
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Website www.airportufa.ru
Maps
Bashkortostan in Russia
Bashkortostan in Russia
UFA is located in Bashkortostan
UFA
UFA
Location of the airport in Bashkortostan
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 675 2,215 Grass
05/23 725 2,379 Grass
14/32 645 2,116 Grass
14R/32L 3,761 12,339 Concrete
14L/32R 2,513 8,245 Concrete
Sources: Airport Guide,[1] WAD,[2] GCM,[3] STV[4]

Ufa International Airport (Russian: Международный аэропорт Уфа, Bashkir: Өфө халыҡ-ара аэропорты) (IATA: UFA, ICAO: UWUU) is the primary airport serving Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.

In 2013, the airport handled 2,218,000 passengers, becoming the ninth largest airport in Russia and the largest airport in Russia's Volga Federal District. It is also the largest airport in the federal subject (republic) of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

When Bashkirian Airlines operated, its head office was on the airport property.[5]

History

Ufa International Airport in 1989.

On 11 May 1924 the building of the first aircraft hangar near Glumilino village has been completed and on 15 May is opened new club of the aviation within the Bashkirian branch of AFFVS. In 1933 the first ever route opens encompassing over 730 km via Ufa–Sterlitamak–Meleuz–Mrakovo–Baymak–Magnitogorsk–Beloretsk–Ufa. In 1956 Ufa Airport had begun performing technical maintenance of the Yakovlev Yak-12 airplanes and Mil Mi-1 helicopters, which were serving the Bashkirian air routes at that time. Between 1959 and 1962 the airport was under reconstruction and 3 hotel buildings, cargo and fuel storage facilities, a 100-seated dining hall and a garage were built. Also, a new runway was built, as well as radio approach equipment for landing under heavy weather conditions and new radar facilities. The new runway was then capable of receiving Tupolev Tu-124, Antonov An-10 and Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft. In 1964 a new terminal for 400 passengers per hour was built and put in operation. In 2007 the reconstructed terminal of the airport entered into operation. The area of the air terminal has increased more than twice. At the moment many departments are located there. The terminal is equipped with modern facilities and up-to-date outfit. There have been mounted 4 telescopic ramps, 4 elevators and 3 escalators. It is gives the opportunity to serve 600 passengers per hour.[6]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya		 Saint Petersburg
Air Bashkortostan
operated by VIM Airlines		 Moscow-Domodedovo
Angara Airlines Novosibirsk[7]
Dexter Air Taxi Cheboksary, Kirov,[8] Ulyanovsk-Baratayevka
Ellinair Seasonal charter: Thessaloniki
flydubai Dubai-International
Izhavia Seasonal: Anapa, Krasnodar
NordStar Baku, Norilsk
Orenair Seasonal: Sochi
Seasonal charter: Eilat-Ovda, Lamezia Terme[9]
Orenburzhye Izhevsk, Orenburg, Perm, Samara
Pobeda Seasonal: Sochi[10]
Red Wings Airlines Seasonal: Simferopol
RusLine Yekaterinburg
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Surgut[11]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ural Airlines Dubai-International, Dushanbe, Khujand, Moscow-Domodedovo, Yerevan[12]
Seasonal: Burgas
UTair Aviation Kazan, Kogalym, Moscow-Vnukovo, Novy Urengoy, Surgut
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent
Yamal Airlines Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Surgut, Tyumen[13]

Ground transportation

The city bus lines No. 101 and 110 connect the airport with the city of Ufa.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Airport guide for the Ufa International Airport
  2. ↑ Airport information for UWUU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
  3. ↑ Airport information for UWUU at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. ↑ Airport information for Ufa International Airport at Search (for) Travel website.
  5. ↑ Bashkirian Airlines v. Federal Republic of Germany (German). District Court of Kostanz. Retrieved on September 11, 2011. "BASHKIRIAN AIRLINES vertreten durch d. Generaldirektoren Flughafen d. Stadt UFA, Russische Föderation, 450056 Russland-UFA"
  6. ↑ http://www.airportufa.ru/en/history/
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External links

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