| Ulan-Ude Airport Lake Baikal Airport |
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| IATA: UUD – ICAO: UIUU | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | JSC "International Airport Ulan-Ude" | ||
| Location | Ulan-Ude, Russia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,690 ft / 515 m | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 08/26 | 2,997 | 9,833 | Concrete |
| 08L/26R | 2,042 | 6,700 | Grass |
| 14/32 | 1,411 | 4,630 | Grass |
| Source: DAFIF,[1][2] airport website[3] | |||
Ulan-Ude Airport[1] or Lake Baikal Airport[3] (Russian: Аэропорт Улан-Удэ (Байкал)) (IATA: UUD, ICAO: UIUU) is an international airport located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Ulan-Ude, Russia. The airport includes a single terminal built in early 1980s featuring customs and border control facilities. With capacity of 400 passengers per hour, the airport served 167,126 passengers in 2010, a 29% increase over 2009.
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In 2006 the airport received a major runway overhaul costing RUR 330 million (USD 10 million). Another RUR 230 million was to be spent in 2007, finishing taxiway and parking areas work.. In November, 2006, the Russian government announced the decision to create a special economic zone 170 km away of Ulan-Ude at Lake Baikal with plans of upgrading the airport. The plans include building a second runway, enlarging the original runway, and improving passenger facilities – to accommodate one million passengers in 2010. Today in 2011, in airport already new arpon bus, edited international terminal and edited control tower.
1971 - an Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-based An-24 has crash-landed on Bogorodsky island near the city. It was a training flight with one idle engine; the crash was caused by flight engineer who has switched off the second engine by mistake. Crewmen had got wounds; the plane has partially burnt down.
1981 - crash of an Aeroflot flight. An Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-bound Il-14, overloaded to almost twice of its possible weight lost its way and crashed into a mountain on Lake Baikal's Svyatoi Nos peninsula killing all 52 passengers and crew.
1988 - Aeroflot flight B-478 L-410 bound for Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) crashed into a mountain in very bad weather conditions, killing all 15 passengers and crew.
1989 - crash of Tu-134 on landing at Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) on a delivery flight from near-by Vostochny airport. The aircraft lost a wing and was then destroyed by fire. The crew escaped through a window. The crash was caused by pilot error; in conditions of low visibility the captain landed the plane 300m to the left of the runway.
1995 - Three armed and masked hi-jackers captured Mil Mi-8, which was being prepared for flight, and airport technicians. After ten hours of negotiations special services saved hostages without any fatalities.
2005 - A fire-brigade vehicle hit Sibaviatrans' Tu-134 parked on the tarmac. No one was injured, but the aircraft suffered minor damage.
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Bural | Irkutsk, Kyzyl, Nizhneangarsk, Taksimo, Bagdarin | A |
| Eznis Airways | Ulan Bator | B |
| Iraero | Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk | A |
| NordStar | Chita, Krasnoyarsk | A |
| Nordwind | Charter: Bangkok(stoped for 1 month) | B |
| RusLine | Manzhouli, Beijing | B |
| RusLine | Krasnoyarsk, Komsomolsk-On-Amur, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | A |
| S7 airlines | Beijing-Capital [begins 16 June], Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk [begins 16 June] | A |
| Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo | A |
| Tyva Airlines | Kyzyl | A |
| UTair Aviation | Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo | A |
| Yakutia Airlines | Moscow-Vnukovo, Yakutsk | A |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo -- Irkutsk |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterenburg -- Chita |
| UTair Aviation | Moscow-Vnukovo -- Irkutsk |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Baikal Airlines(existed) | Irkutsk |
| Dalavia (existed) | Vladivostok |
| Domodedovo Airlines (existed) operated by Kras Air (existed) and S7 airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Enkor (existed) | Almaty, Baku, Bishkek, Chelyabinsk, Dushanbe, Khujand, Moscow-Domodedovo, Öskemen, Yerevan, Mirniy, Saint-Petersburg |
| Kras Air (existed) | Krasnoyarsk |
| Sibaviatrans (existed) | Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk |
| Ural Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Ekaterinburg |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Vladivostok |
| Aircraft | Airline | Destination |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A310-200(as a parliament plane) | Rossiya | Moscow, Saint-Petersburg. |
| Antonov An-24, Antonov An-28 | Iraero and Bural | Irkutsk,Krasnoyarsk,Novosibirsk,Taksimo,Nizhneangarsk,Bagdarin |
| Antonov An-2 | Bural | |
| ATR 42-500 | NordStar | Krasnoyarsk, Chita |
| Avro RJ85 (Future) | Eznis Airways | Ulan-Bator |
| Boeing 737-700 | Yakutia Airlines | Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Boeing 737-800 | S7 Airlines|(Oneworld)or Globus | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Boeing 757-200 | Yakutia Airlines and VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Boeing 767-300 (Future) | Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Bombardier CRJ200 | RusLine | Beijing, Krasnoyarsk, Manzhouli |
| Ilyushin Il-76 | Unknown cargo airline | Unknown |
| SAAB 340 | Eznis Airways | Ulan-Bator |
| Tupolev Tu-154 | UTair Aviation | charter: Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Tupolev Tu-214 | Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo |