When a traveler flies to Yakutia, he begins to worry about how this land will meet him with harsh nature. I really do not want to experience the cold in the first minutes after landing. Can passengers be dropped out of the cabin in the middle of the field? Where to expect luggage? What conditions does the airport of Yakutsk boast of? Is there any hotel near the air harbor? This will tell our article.
This is not to say that Yakutia (the official name of the Republic of Sakha) was a favorite and popular destination. But many tourists use this airport as a transit point on the way to the resorts of Thailand, for example, to Phuket. What do they say about the conditions at the airport? It should be said that old and new reviews are very different. Maybe the reason is that a new terminal was launched? It opened at the end of June 2012.
Yakutsk Airport: description
The air harbor of the Republic of Sakha also has a second, unofficial, name - “Tuymaada”. This name bears the valley in which Yakutsk is located. And the name passed to the city airport terminal. As for its characteristics, quite often we will have to repeat the word "most." After all, Yakutsk is an airport in many ways unique. For example, it is the only training ground in the world where new flying machines are tested in natural conditions of low temperatures. And this airport was the first point from where the flight was made over the Far North of the USSR and Siberia (to Irkutsk). Now the air terminal has the status of international and federal significance. The airlines Polar Airlines and Yakutia are based in it. At the moment, the passenger turnover of the airport is 850 thousand people per year. This modest figure is due to the fact that Yakutsk is not a frequent city. But the airport capacity is seven hundred passengers per hour! So the potential at the air terminal is truly huge.
History
October 8, 1925 can be called the birthday of aviation in Yakutia. On this day, the first plane took off from Darkylah marina. And just three years later, the Irkutsk-Yakutsk air service was established. The airport in the republic began to be built in 1931 and completed in 1935. It is now, however, in an updated form, exists in its old place, in the valley of Tuymaada. At first, the airport was used as a transport hub between the mines. And for civil aviation they began to operate it in 1940, when they built a small terminal with rooms for staff and passengers, a buffet and a weather station. After the end of World War II, regular flights began to be carried out to Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan. In 1964, an airport hotel was built. And in 1985, it was replaced by the new Hotel Liner, which is still valid today. After successfully conducting tests at low temperatures, the Boeing 757 Yakutsk Airport received a new incentive to develop. In 1996, a new airport terminal was opened, which received international status. In 2012, a new terminal was launched. The old building has become part of the airport complex.
Air Harbor Features
This transport hub includes the passenger and cargo airport “Yakutsk”, the service of ground navigators-dispatchers, the company “Aerotorgservice”, which prepares food for meals on board, customs and border control, hangars, and a dog service. Many airlines in the USA, Japan, as well as FinnAir, KLM, Singapore Airlines, SpeedBird (Great Britain), Lufthansa, Aeroflot and others have recognized this airport as possible for landing on cross-polar routes. The first international flight was launched on a regular basis to Harbin in 2006. A year later, one of the world's largest Boeing 747-200 aircraft was accepted.
Facilities for passengers
Photos of the Yakutsk airport demonstrate a completely modern spacious terminal that meets the requirements for the international class "C". The building has six elevators, four escalators. Telescopic ladders - "sleeves" are fed to the aircraft. In addition to the usual waiting room, there is a zone for business class passengers and a VIP zone. Baggage is given in circular tracks. There is a cafe in the terminal building. The area in front of the airport terminal looks no less presentable. There is a parking lot equipped and a monument to Karina Chikitova and her dog Nayda installed as a sign of touching friendship and vitality. The hotel of the Yakutsk airport is also part of the complex. It has one hundred and thirty comfortable rooms of various categories. There is a sushi bar on the ground floor of the hotel.
Where can I fly from Yakutsk
The Republic of Sakha has a vast territory. And many of its corners are connected with civilization only by air. It is not surprising that local flights occupy about 70 percent of all aircraft circulation from the Yakutsk airport. As for the cities of Russia, Yakutsk is connected with Moscow (Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo), St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Khabarovsk, Anapa and Sochi . Abroad from the airport you can fly to Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket), Vietnam (Nha Trang), Hong Kong, Seoul, Harbin. The hub serves twelve airlines. Among them are Aeroflot, Yakutia, S7, IrAero, Polar Airlines, Globus and others.
How to get to Yakutsk
The airport is located seven kilometers north of the city center. His address is: st. Gagarina, 10, Yakutsk. You can stay at the three-star Hotel Liner, it is the largest in the city. The hotel is part of the airport complex. And to Yakutsk city buses No. 18 and 4 will dominate you in ten minutes.