Ugolny Airport
Ugolny Airport Аэропорт Угольный | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Chukotavia" | ||||||||||
| Serves | Anadyr | ||||||||||
| Location | Anadyr, Russia | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 194 ft / 59 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 64°44′6″N 177°44′30″E / 64.73500°N 177.74167°E | ||||||||||
| Website | https://apchukotki.ru/ | ||||||||||
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  DYR Location of airport in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | |||||||||||
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Ugolny Airport (
In May 2019, the airport was named in honor of the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu.[1]
Civilian history
The Soviet-built Ilyushin Il-62 was a workhorse of the route from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Anadyr for many decades. There is occasional charter aircraft service from Nome, Alaska, to Anadyr.
Anadyr was featured in the American novel Flight of the Old Dog.
In 2018, 102,806 passengers passed through this airport.[citation needed]
On 3 January 2020, United States pilot Matt Guthmiller posted a video of his experience entering the Chukotka Autonomous region and landing at DYR without the correct documentation.[2]
Incidents and accidents
Owing to its geographic location, its long, concrete-reinforced, heavy load-bearing runway, as well as its modern terminal with jet bridges, the airport is well-suited and well-situated for emergency diversion at roughly the midpoint of the northern trans-Pacific routes.
- On 2 July 2013, a Korean Air Boeing 777-300 performing a scheduled flight from Chicago to Seoul made an emergency landing at Ugolny after one of its engines quit in flight.[3]
- On the morning of 5 March 2019, an Air China Boeing 777-300ER performing a scheduled flight from Beijing to Los Angeles made an emergency landing at Ugolny due to a fire alarm later confirmed false. All of the 10 evacuation slides deployed.[citation needed]
Ground transportation
The airport is located on the opposite site of the
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aurora | Khabarovsk[4] |
| Chukotavia | Egvekinot, Keperveyem, Lavrentiya, Markovo, Pevek, Provideniya |
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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Moscow–Sheremetyevo
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| S7 Airlines | Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok |
| Yakutia Airlines | Khabarovsk, Magadan, Yakutsk |
Military
Anadyr was one of nine Arctic staging bases (in Russian, "bounce aerodrome") for long range bombers.[5] The Russian Air Force's OGA (Arctic Control Group) is responsible for upkeep of the facilities.
Anadyr has also been a prominent base for
In September 1982, the Yak-28s were replaced with 20
Fighter aircraft are no longer based permanently at Anadyr, and the region was overflown daily by foreign aircraft on the Asian polar route before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Temporary military deployments are common, however. In 2001, the airfield was visited by Tupolev Tu-95MS and Ilyushin Il-78 aircraft on exercise from Engels air base.
In 2014, Russia announced plans to deploy
References
Citations
- ^ "Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации". publication.pravo.gov.ru. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ^ Flying Our Plane to Russia Did NOT Go As Planned, archived from the original on 2021-12-13, retrieved 2020-01-18
- Aviation Herald. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ "Начались продажи авиабилетов между столицей Чукотки и Хабаровском на летний период". prochukotku.ru (in Russian). Информационное агентство «Чукотка». 28 March 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATIONS RELATED ACTIVITIES SUMMARY REPORT (SANITIZED), June 1, 1980, CREST: CIA-RDP80T01355A000100140001-2, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
- ^ a b Lensky & Tsybin 2015, p. 47.
- ^ Evaluations of Soviet Surface-to-Surface Missile Deployment, November 1965, Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
- ^ FLAGON DEPLOYMENT ANADYR/UGOLNYYE KOPI AIRFIELD, USSR (SANITIZED), September 27, 1982, CIA-RDP83T00574R000101020001-2, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
- ^ Michael Holm, 171st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO, accessed October 2011
- ^ "Russia to base Mig-31 Foxhound fighters at Arctic airbase in renewed sign of pivot to the North Pole". 28 October 2014.
Bibliography
- Lensky, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2015). Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 3 [Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 3] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Info Ol. OCLC 861180616.
External links
- Ugolny Airport official website (in Russian)
- Airport information for UHMA at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- Current weather for UHMA at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for DYR at Aviation Safety Network
- Airport Anadyr Aviateka.Handbook