Luhansk International Airport

Lugansk International Airport
"Міжнародний аеропорт Луганськ"

The ruins of Luhansk International Airport in September 2014

IATA: VSG – ICAO: UKCW

VSG

Location of Luhansk Airport in Ukraine

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Civil Government

Location

Luhansk, Ukraine

Elevation AMSL

636 ft / 194 m

Coordinates

48°25′4.8″N 39°22′26.4″E / 48.418000°N 39.374000°ECoordinates: 48°25′4.8″N 39°22′26.4″E / 48.418000°N 39.374000°E

Website

airport.lg.ua

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	9,318	2,840	Asphalt concrete
9/27	8,202	2,500	Soil

Luhansk International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Луганськ") was an airport in Luhansk, Ukraine (IATA: VSG, ICAO: UKCW). The airport was located 20 km (12 miles) south of the city center, 9 km to the city limit. Since 11 June 2014 the airport was officially closed.^[1] It has been nearly completely destroyed during the War in Donbass.

Airlines and destinations

Since December of 2009 the airport was a base airport of the Ukrainian airline UTair-Ukraine.^[2]

Accidents and incidents

Main article: Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down

On 14 June 2014, a Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft was shot down on approach to Luhansk, killing all 49 people on board. This was the most severe loss suffered by the Ukrainian military since the start of the pro-Russian conflict in February 2014.

References

↑ Three airports in the East Ukraine closed until better times. Ukrinform. 19 June 2014
↑ UTair-Ukraine started flights. Avianews. 12 December 2009

http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=UP00013&sch=UKCW

External links

Media related to Lugansk Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Airports in Ukraine

Major international	Kyiv-Boryspil

Minor international	Dnipropetrovsk Kharkiv Kherson Kyiv-Zhuliany Lviv Odessa Zaporizhia

Domestic	Ivano-Frankivsk Kryvyi Rih Uzhhorod

Unscheduled	Berdiansk Cherkasy Chernivtsi Donetsk Hostomel Izmail Kerch Kharkiv-North Khmelnytskyi Kremenchuk Luhansk Lymanske Mariupol Mykolaiv Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Simferopol Ternopil Vinnytsia Zhytomyr

Ukrainian crisis

General
topics

Main events

Donbass battles	Siege of Sloviansk (12 April – 5 July 2014) Battle of Kramatorsk (12 April – 5 July 2014) Battle of Mariupol (6 May – 14 June 2014) 1st Battle of Donetsk Airport (26–27 May 2014) Siege of the Luhansk Border Base (2–4 June 2014) Zelenopillya rocket attack (11 July 2014) Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion (16 July – 26 August 2014) Battle of Horlivka (20 July – 6 September 2014) Battle of Ilovaisk (10 August – 2 September 2014) Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack (18 August 2014) Battle of Novoazovsk (25–28 August 2014) Mariupol offensive (4–8 September 2014) 2nd Battle of Donetsk Airport (28 September 2014 – 21 January 2015) Battle of Debaltseve (16 January – 20 February 2015) Mariupol rocket attack (24 January 2015) Shyrokyne standoff (10 February – 3 July 2015) Battle of Marinka (3 June 2015) Battle of Starohnativka (10–12 August 2015)

Other events	Crimean status referendum (16 March 2014) Odessa clashes (2 May 2014) Donbass status referendums (11 May 2014) Ukrainian presidential election (25 May 2014) 40th G7 summit (4–5 June 2014) Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down (14 June 2014) Shelling of Donetsk, Russia (13 July 2014) Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot-down (17 July 2014) reactions UNSC Resolution 2166 (21 July 2014) NATO summit in Wales (4–5 September 2014) Minsk Protocol (5 September 2014) Ukrainian parliamentary election (26 October 2014) Donbass general elections (2 November 2014) 2014 G20 Brisbane summit (15–16 November 2014) Volnovakha bus attack (13 January 2015) Donetsk bus attack (22 January 2015) Minsk II ceasefire agreement (12 February 2015) Kharkiv bombing (22 February 2015)

Proclaimed
states

Republic of Crimea (17–18 March 2014)
Donetsk People's Republic (since 7 April 2014)
Luhansk People's Republic (since 27 April 2014)
Novorossiya (24 May 2014 – 20 May 2015)

Background

Pre-1917 Novorossiya
1918 Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
1918 Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic
2004 South-East Ukrainian Autonomous Republic
2012 law on languages
2014 Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement

Main places

Donetsk
- International Airport
- Druzhba Arena
Luhansk
- International Airport
Kharkiv
Odessa
Donetsk Oblast
- Bakhmut
- Debaltseve
- Dobropillia
- Druzhkivka
- Dzerkalne
- Horlivka
- Hrabove
- Ilovaisk
- Karlivka
- Khartsyzk
- Kirovske
- Kostiantynivka
- Kramatorsk
- Krasnoarmiisk
- Lyman
- Makiivka
- Marinka
- Mariupol
- Mykolaivka
- Novoazovsk
- Pisky
- Savur-Mohyla
- Shakhtarsk
- Siversk
- Sloviansk
- Snizhne
- Staromykhailivka
- Toretsk
- Torez
- Volnovakha
- Vuhlehirsk
- Yampil
- Yasynuvata
- Yenakiieve
- Zhdanivka
Luhansk Oblast
- Alchevsk
- Antratsyt
- Chornukhyne
- Izvaryne
- Kirovsk
- Krasnodon
- Krasnyi Luch
- Lysychansk
- Metalist
- Novosvitlivka
- Oleksandrivsk
- Pervomaisk
- Pobieda
- Popasna
- Rubizhne
- Shchastya
- Sievierodonetsk
- Stakhanov
- Stanytsia Luhanska
- Sverdlovsk

(Pro-)
Russian

Organizations	Russian Armed Forces United Armed Forces of Novorossiya List of equipment Army of the South-East Russian Orthodox Army Vostok Battalion Donetsk Republic (political party) New Russia Party Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic Peace for Lugansk Region Borotba Antifascist Committee of Ukraine Ukrainian Choice Russophone Ukraine Night Wolves The Other Russia Eurasian Youth Union

Lead figures	Vladimir Putin Vladislav Surkov Sergey Shoygu Vladimir Antyufeyev Igor Bezler Valery Bolotov Alexander Borodai Mikhail Chumachenko Aleksandr Dugin Pavel Gubarev Ekaterina Gubareva Igor Kakidzyanov Alexander Khodakovsky Arsen Klinchaev Vladimir Kononov Aleksey Mozgovoy Igor Plotnitsky Vyacheslav Ponomarev Andrei Purgin Denis Pushilin Igor Strelkov Oleg Tsaryov Alexander Zakharchenko

Ukrainian

Organizations	Yatsenyuk Government Ministry of Internal Affairs National Guard of Ukraine Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Air Force Ukrainian Airmobile Forces Security Service of Ukraine SBU Alpha Group State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Right Sector Territorial defense battalions Aidar Battalion Azov Battalion Dnipro Battalion Donbas Battalion Kharkiv Battalion Sich Battalion Svyatyi Mykolai Battalion

Lead figures	Petro Poroshenko Oleksandr Turchynov Arseniy Yatsenyuk Andriy Parubiy Arsen Avakov Valentyn Nalyvaichenko Valeriy Heletey Mykhailo Koval Mykhailo Kutsyn Oleh Makhnitskyi Viktor Muzhenko Vitaly Yarema Oleh Lyashko Dmytro Yarosh Ihor Kolomoyskyi Serhiy Taruta Ihor Baluta Semen Semenchenko Hennadiy Moskal Nadiya Savchenko

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Luhansk International Airport

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

External links