Koltsovo International Airport

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Koltsovo International Airport Аэропорт Кольцово
IATA: SVX - ICAO: USSS
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Koltsovo International Airport
Serves		Yekaterinburg
Elevation AMSL		764 ft (233 m)
Coordinates		56°44′29″N, 60°48′13″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08R/26L	9,925	3,025	Concrete
08L/26R	8,192	2,497	Asphalt

Koltsovo International Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Кольцово) (IATA: SVX, ICAO: USSS) is an airport near Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

1 General information
2 Airlines based in Koltsovo
3 Airlines and destinations
4 External links

[edit] General information

The airport is located 16 km southeast from Yekaterinburg (56°45′00″N, 60°48′18″E) and linked to the city by several bus routes.

The airport was opened in 1928 as a military airbase and became a civilian airport on July 10, 1943. In October 1993 it acquired international status.

As of 2005, Koltsovo is the fifth largest airport in Russia (after the largest airports of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg) and a member of Airports Council International (ACI). 1,461,070 passengers and 20,958,800 tons of cargo were transported via Koltsovo in 2004. Airport has sixty parking lots and two runways: 2,500 m asphalt and 3,012 m concrete. It can accept most of currently operating passenger and cargo aircraft, including Airbus A320, Boeing 737, Ilyushin Il-96, and Tupolev Tu-204. Koltsovo is now linked with more than 50 cities of the world includind a dozen of european destinations.

Koltsovo's new international terminal, which was opened on December 16, 2005 and which is now considered to be the best airport terminal in Russia, has a capacity of 600 passengers per hour. Another terminal for internal flights is now under construction and is expected to be twice larger than the new international terminal. The airport also includes a catering section and a terminal for VIP passengers. A logistic center with a large cargo terminal is now also under cunstruction. By 2009 it is expected that a third runway will be constructed to let Koltsovo accept all types of aircraft including Boeing 747.

[edit] Airlines based in Koltsovo

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Armavia (Yerevan)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Dalavia Far East Airways (Khabarovsk)
East Line
Enkor (Moscow-Domodedovo)
KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Magadan Airlines (Magadan)
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St.Petersburg)
S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Tajikair (Dushanbe)
Tbilaviamsheni (Tbilisi)
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Turan Air (Baku)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Ural Airlines (Barcelona, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Larnaca, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Salzburg, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv)
Uzbekistan Airways (Taskhent)
Vladivostok Avia (Vladivostok)
Yamal Airlines (Salekhard)