Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 99 m / 325 ft 05L/23R Closed 2,500 Code YKS Serves Yakutsk | Location Yakutsk, Russia Website www.airport-yakutsk.ru Elevation 99 m Phone +7 411 249-10-35 | |
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Operator Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise Address Привокзальная площадь аэропорта, 10, 2 этаж, каб. 2-157, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, 677014 Hours Open today · 8AM–5PMMonday8AM–5PMTuesday8AM–5PMWednesday8AM–5PMThursday8AM–5PMFriday8AM–12PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedSuggest an edit Hub for Yakutia Airlines; Polar Airlines Similar Glavnoye Agentstvo Vozdush, Polyarnye avialinii - aviakomp, Yakutiya, Sonata, S7 Airlines | ||
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Yakutsk Airport (Yakut: Дьокуускай Аэропорт, Coquusqay Aeroport [ɟoquːsˈqaj aeɾoˈpoɾt]; Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск, Aeroport Yakutsk) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour.
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The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines.
Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4.
Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan.
Accidents and incidents
Before 1992, Aeroflot had monopoly on Soviet domestic flights, and had a lot of accidents. At least a dozen deadly accidents happened on or near Yakutsk. See Aeroflot accidents and incidents.