| Petrozavodsk Airport Аэропорт Петрозаводск |
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| IATA: PES – ICAO: ULPB | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Civil/military | ||
| Operator | Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia | ||
| Serves | Petrozavodsk, Russia | ||
| Location | Besovets, Russia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 151 ft / 46 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 02/20 | 2,500 | 8,202 | Concrete |
Petrozavodsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск, Karelian: Petroskoin lendoazema; (IATA: PES, ICAO: ULPB); ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.
The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s it was home to the 991 IAP (991st Interceptor Aviation Regiment), which flew MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft. In 1992-93, the 159 IAP (159th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army.[1] It flies the Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft and is now part of the 54th Air Defence Corps, 6th Air Army.
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| Airlines | Destinations |
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| RusLine | Helsinki, Moscow-Domodedovo |
On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of the runway at Petrozavodsk Airport while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.[2]