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Kazan International Airport

Kazan International Airport (Tatar: Казан Халыкара Аэропорты, Russian: Международный аэропорт Казань; IATA: KZN, ICAO: UWKD) is an international airport in Russia, around 25 km southeast of Kazan. It is the largest airport in Tatarstan and one of the busiest airports in Russia as well as in Post-Soviet States. Kazan International Airport served more than 5 million passengers in 2023.[2] In 2019 Airport was renamed to commemorate a Volga Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature Ğabdulla Tuqay.[3]

Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International Airport

Габдулла Тукай исемендәге Казан Аэропорты

Международный аэропорт «Казань» имени Габдуллы Тукая
Summary
Airport typeInternational
OwnerKazan International Airport
OperatorJSC "Kazan International Airport"
ServesKazan, Russia
Hub forUVT Aero
Elevation AMSL410 ft / 125 m
Coordinates55°36′24″N 049°16′54″E / 55.60667°N 49.28167°E / 55.60667; 49.28167
Websitewww.kazan.aero
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KZN is located in Tatarstan
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Location of the airport in Tatarstan
KZN is located in European Russia
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Location of the airport in Russia
KZN is located in Europe
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Location of the airport in Europe
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11L/29R 12,218 3,724 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Passengers (2023)5.000.000 https://flightmapper.io/airports/kazan-international-airport-kzn-26404
Time zoneUTC +4
Operating time7.00–24.00, all year
Most popular international flightIstanbul, Turkey
Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1]

History

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Kazan Aeroexpress-Lastochka
 
Inside Kazan Airport, departure hall

Kazan 2 was completed on 15 September 1979. On 28 September 1984, Kazan 1 (located inside the city) was shut down, and Kazan 2 was renamed Kazan Domestic Airport. On 21 February 1986, Kazan Airport gained international rank. This was a drastic announcement because the USSR Council of Ministers only rarely allowed its citizens to fly out of the USSR.

In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Tatarstan region separated from the USSR's single Aeroflot airline and created Tatarstan Airlines. This airline didn't gain an efficient amount of investments in its 22 years of service, and its operating license was officially terminated on 31 December 2013 after a disaster.[4]

On 26 October 1992, Kazan got its first international regular flight: Kazan – Istanbul – Kazan. This flight was (and still is) operated by Turkish Airlines and 145 annual trips are made to and from Istanbul, making it the most popular international route.

In 2008, Tatarstan's president, Mintimer Shaimiev, after winning the bid for the 2013 Summer Universiade, began creating a set of major reform projects in Kazan. Apart from repairing the streets, bringing in investments, the integrating English language, and improving the bus route system in Kazan, Shaimiev also began to completely redesign Kazan's airport. He designed the blueprints for Terminal 1A and planned out the complete refining of the airport between 2008 and 2025. Shaimiev's successor and today's president of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, used the blueprints, which were made in 2009, to begin the construction of Terminal 1A and a complete redesign of Terminal 1 (essentially also a new reconstruction).

First, a new 3,700-meter runway was built, and edge lights were added on both of the runways. This made it possible for the airport to operate 24/7. In 2012, a new airport fire station was built. In 2012, the construction of Terminal 1A began. Later that year, Terminal 1 began its own renovation. Terminal 1A was officially opened on 7 November 2012. Terminal 1 finished renovations on 22 June 2013.

Today, the new airport has more than 30 check-in slots and seven conveyor belts. It has three separate duty-free shops, selling merchandise such as alcohol, cigars and cigarettes, chocolates. It offers popular brands such as Costa coffee. The airport can sustain around three million passengers. Further expansions and the creation of Terminal 2 will occur before the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Following the Skytrax Airport and Airline Awards, Kazan Airport was nominated for 4 stars in 2014 and was called Russia's and CIS's best airport.

Following the opening of new air routes and an increase in flights through existing routes, the Kazan Airport reached a record of 2.5 million passengers transported in less than a year at the beginning of December 2017.[5]

Airlines and destinations

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AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Sochi
Air Arabia Sharjah[6]
Air Cairo Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[7]
Air Serbia Belgrade[8]
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[9]
Armenian Airlines Yerevan[10]
Avia Traffic Company Bishkek
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku[11]
Azur Air Seasonal charter: Hurghada, Phuket,[12] Sharm El Sheikh
Belavia Minsk
China Eastern Airlines Shanghai–Pudong[13]
Corendon Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya
flydubai Dubai–International
Ikar Murmansk,[14] Orenburg (begins 2 January 2025),[14] Ufa,[14] Volgograd
Seasonal charter: Phuket
IrAero Baku
Nordstar Airlines Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines Barnaul, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Grozny, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khujand, Krasnoyarsk–International, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Novokuznetsk, Omsk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladikavkaz
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Pobeda Istanbul, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Moscow–Vnukovo, Sochi, Surgut
Red Wings Airlines Almaty, Astana, Batumi, Chelyabinsk, Tashkent, Tbilisi,[15] Yekaterinburg, Yerevan
Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala, Hurghada, Phuket[16]
Rossiya Saint Petersburg
Seasonal charter: Hurghada,[17] Sharm El Sheikh[17]
RusLine Khanty-Mansiysk, Naryan-Mar, Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
Severstal Air Company Cherepovets
Smartavia Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Somon Air Dushanbe
Southwind Airlines[18] Seasonal charter: Antalya[19]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat (suspended)[20]
Ural Airlines Dushanbe, Osh
Seasonal charter: Hurghada (resumes 1 December 2024),[21] Sharm El Sheikh[22]
Utair Omsk, Samara, Tyumen, Ufa
UVT Aero Astrakhan,[23] Gorno-Altaysk, Kaluga, Moscow–Vnukovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Novy Urengoy, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm,[24] Samara, Samarqand, Saransk, Surgut, Tashkent,[25] Tobolsk, Tomsk, Usinsk, Yaroslavl, Yekaterinburg
Uzbekistan Airways Fergana, Samarqand, Tashkent
Yamal Airlines Salekhard

Statistics

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Passenger statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at KZN airport. See Wikidata query.
Annual passenger traffic[26]
Year Passengers % change
2004 309,900  
2005 393,600   27%
2006 445,700   13.2%
2007 616,400   38.3%
2008 751,500   22%
2009 675,700   -10.1%
2010 958,500   41.8%
2011 1,227,000   28%
2012 1,487,000   21.2%
2013 1,847,000   24.2%
2014 1,942,408   5.2%
2015 1,799,267   7.4%
2016 1,923,223   6.9%
2017 2,623,423   36.4%

Arrivals and departures

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
  4,831   6,192   6,601   7,946   8,238   6,898   9,549   11,210   20,475   29,783

Cargo handled

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2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
  2,078   4,384   4,456   5,321   2,744   2,936   3,834   6,014   7,212

Other facilities

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Tatarstan Airlines had its head office on the airport property.[27][28]

Accidents and incidents

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On 17 November 2013, Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363, a Boeing 737-500, operating for Tatarstan Airlines, crashed while attempting to land at the airport. All 44 passengers and six crew members died.[29] Investigations revealed the pilot had not completed his primary flight training, a revelation which then led Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) to revoke hundreds of pilots' licenses.[30]

On 21 December 2016, a man drove his car through the airport's terminal while under the influence of drugs, causing an estimated 6,000,000 Russian rubles (US$100,000) in damage. The suspect, identified as Ruslan Nurtdinov, was charged with violating traffic rules, endangerment, and drug trafficking.[31][32]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Потапова, Арина (18 December 2023). "Аэропорт Казани впервые в истории обслужил 5 миллионов пассажиров за год". Новости Татарстана и Казани – Татар-информ (in Russian). Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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  21. ^ Liu, Jim (31 October 2024). "Ural Airlines Expands Hurghada / Sharm el Sheikh Charters in 4Q24". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  22. ^ "Ural Airlines NW23 Egypt Network Expansion". AeroRoutes. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  23. ^ "Возобновляются рейсы в Казань". airportastrakhan.ru. Международный аэропорт Астрахани. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
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  25. ^ "Russia's UVT Aero launches flights from Kazan to Tashkent". Daryo.uz. Daryo (the Uzbek Press and Information Agency (UzAP)). 12 July 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
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  32. ^ Staff, Our Foreign (24 December 2016). "'I was fighting for love!' Russian man sparks security scare by driving into airport – to meet his girlfriend". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
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