Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport

Khurba (also given as Komsomolsk South, Khurba, Hurba, Uchastok, and Kalinovka) (IATA: KXK, ICAO: UHKK) is an air base (also used as an airport (Russian: Аэропорт Хурба)) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Komsomolsk-na-Amure. This medium-sized base has considerable tarmac space and an extended area of revetments. It handles medium-sized airliners.

Units stationed at Komsomolsk-na-Amur/Khurba include:

277 BAP (277th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24M2 aircraft in the 1990-2000s.^[1]^[2] There is a reequipment on the Su-34. Delivered first 10 bombers.^[3]^[4]
216 IAP (216th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying Su-27 aircraft during 1986-1987 in addition to 277 BAP).
26 Gv OPIB (26th Guards Independent Fighter-Bomber Regiment) flying Su-17M3 aircraft at the end of the Cold War.^[1] This unit operated under 1st Air Army (1 OA), i.e. Far East Air Army).

History

Khurba Airport began as a military airfield garrison Khurba-2. The airfield was built during the Great Patriotic War with its old original runway with length of 810 meters is not currently in use. At the airport deployed:

From November 1948 to June 1962: 311th Fighter Regiment defense on the Yak-9, MiG-15, MiG-17 and Su-9. Disbanded at the airport June 21, 1962 [1]
From 1991 to 1998: 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment with Su-27 airplanes
From October 1970 to September 1, 2009: 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment Mlavsky Red Banner on the Sukhoi Su-24M

Later, the garrison was reorganized to the 6988-th Air Base. The airfield was built for the Ministry of Defense standards with scattered parking, arched reinforced concrete shelters for aircraft and reserve a dirt runway parallel to the concrete.

The airport regularly worked in Soviet times with daily flying international flights for the Far East region.

1990s to 2000s

From the late 1990s to late 2000s, the airport was effectively closed to passenger traffic, in the summer time (periodically) flying to Moscow JSC "Krasnoyarsk airlines" airplanes Tu-154 with a stopover in Krasnoyarsk (once a week). In summer 2009, after a decade flights began to perform again in Moscow - the carriage is performed airline "Vladivostok Avia" in the aircraft Tu-204-300. In late 2011, "Vladivostok Avia" was purchased by Aeroflot, whose leadership has recognized the flights to and from Komsomolsk-on-Amur are unprofitable, and a major industrial center of the Far East was again left without a direct air link to the capital.

2010s

In 2016 the airport was privatized with its shares sold for 70.15 million ruble to a St. Petersburg "EVM Property". It is planned to resume air service between Komsomolsk-on-Amur and cities such as Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Okhotsk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Irkutsk. In the future, it will be established air communication with Moscow. It is expected that the airport will open at least five regional flights a week.^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
VIM Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk

References

1 2 "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012.
↑ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
↑ http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1929047.html
↑ http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2095335.html
↑ Аэропорт Комсомольска-на-Амуре приватизировали

External links

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Official website (Russian)
http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KXK

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

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