Ufa International Airport
Ufa International Airport Өфө халыҡ-ара аэропорты Международный аэропорт Уфа |
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Ufa International Airport
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IATA: UFA – ICAO: UWUU | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bashkortostan in Russia |
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Location of the airport in Bashkortostan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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History
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 |
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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
- List of the busiest airports in Russia
- List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
- List of the busiest airports in Europe
References
- ↑ Airport guide for the Ufa International Airport
- ↑ Airport information for UWUU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
- ↑ Airport information for UWUU at Great Circle Mapper.
- ↑ Airport information for Ufa International Airport at Search (for) Travel website.
- ↑ 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"
- ↑ http://www.airportufa.ru/en/history/
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Ufa International Airport (English) (Russian)
- Accident history for UFA at Aviation Safety Network
- Current weather for UWUU at NOAA/NWS
- Articles with German-language external links
- Articles containing Bashkir-language text
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with Russian-language external links
- Airports in Bashkortostan
- Airports built in the Soviet Union
- Ufa
- Companies based in Bashkortostan
- 1924 establishments in the Soviet Union