Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport

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Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport Аэропорт Толмачёво
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IATA: OVB - ICAO: UNNT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Open Joint Stock Company
Serves		Novosibirsk
Elevation AMSL		365 ft (111 m)
Coordinates		55°00′46″N, 82°39′03″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
07/25	11,811	3,600	Asphalt
07L/25R	9,825	2,995	Grass
16/34	11,826	3,605	under construction

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Аэропорт Толмачёво in Russian) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is situated 16 km from Novosibirsk, an industrial and scientific center in Siberia, Russia, the nation's third largest city. Operations began on July 12, 1957 with the first passenger flight of Tupolev Tu-104 from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The airport was owned by United Tolmachevo Aviation Enterprise and Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR until 1992. The airport then became an joint stock company in 1995, with 51% owned by the state.

There is a 3,600 m (11,811 ft) active runway in Tolmachevo Airport and another 3,600 m runway under construction, along with 2 passenger terminals, 1 cargo terminal and 61 aircraft stands. The international terminal was renovated in 1997. Tolmachevo Airport is also the first Russian airport to receive ISO 9002-96 certificate. The airport is now serving around 20,000 aircraft movements each year.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

A Boeing 737-500 from S7 Airlines, the airport's largest airline, at the domestic terminal

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Altyn Air (Bishkek)
Armavia (Yerevan)
Atlant-Soyuz Airlines
China Southern Airlines (Urumqi)
Dalavia
Kyrgyzstan Airlines (Bishkek)
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
Russian Sky Airlines
Samara Airlines (Samara)
S7 Airlines (Algiers, Anapa, Baku, Bangkok, Beijing, Chita, Dubai, Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Hanover, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Khudgant, Krasnodar, Magadan, Moscow-Domodedovo, Norilsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Seoul-Incheon, Simferopol, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Tashkent, Urumqi, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yerevan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Uzbekistan Airlines (Tashkent)
Vladivostok Avia (Vladivostok)