Koltsovo Airport

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Koltsovo 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 Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Кольцово) (IATA: SVX, ICAO: USSS) is an international airport located 16km (10 mi) southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The airport is a hub for Ural Airlines and Aviacon Zitotrans.

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 and a member of Airports Council International (ACI). In 2006, it handled 1,764,948 passengers and 15,519 metric tonnes of cargo; in 2007, 2 345 097 passengers passed through the airport and it shows significant growth of 32,9% to the previous year. The airport has sixty aircraft stands and serves more than 50 destinations worldwide including a dozen in Europe.

New international terminal opened in December 2005, and the new domestic one - in October 2007[1]. New logistics center and a large cargo terminal are currently under construction. A third runway is expected to be constructed by 2009 which will let Koltsovo accept all types of heavy aircraft including Boeing 747.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Armavia (Yerevan)
Aviaprad (Hanover, Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
bmi (London-Heathrow, Almaty)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Dalavia (Khabarovsk)
Enkor (Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped?
Finnair (Helsinki) - begins September 2008
KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Magadan Airlines (Magadan) - stopped
Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
Rossiya (St.Petersburg)
S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped
Sky Express (Moscow-Vnukovo)
Tajik Air (Dushanbe, Khudzand)
Tbilaviamsheni (Tbilisi)- stopped
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Turan Air (Baku)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
UTair (Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Beloyarkyi, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk)
Ural Airlines (Almaty [begins May 13], Bangkok, Barcelona, Dubai, Dusseldorf [seasonal June 22 - September 14], Heraklion [seasonal June 5 - October 23], Irkutsk, Lahore, Larnaca [seasonal April 30 - October 24],Kiev-Boryspil, Moscow-Domodedovo, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pula [seasonal May 31 - October 25], Salzburg, Samara, Simferopol [seasonal June 2 - September 26], Sochi, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki [seasonal April 27 - October 23], Tivat [seasonal June 7 - October 25], Vladivostok)
Uzbekistan Airways (Taskhent)
Vladivostok Avia (Irkutsk, Vladivostok)
Yamal Airlines (Salekhard)