The administrative center of the Bryansk region, the city of Bryansk, is located in the west of the country, near the border of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The city was founded in 985 AD. e., and throughout its existence has grown to pretty decent size for regional significance. The city was captured several times by ill-wishers. He spent some time under the yoke of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, entered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for quite a long time the city was the subject of a dispute between the Commonwealth and the Russian kingdom. During the Great Patriotic War, the city was captured by the Germans and liberated by Soviet troops almost two years later. In the postwar years, several nearby towns and villages were included in the city. And in 1961, the civilian Bryansk airport was opened on the basis of the Soviet military airfield.
History of occurrence
In 1926, on a hill near the village of Gorodishche, a completely ordinary and unremarkable village up to this date, the construction of an airfield runway began. This place was not chosen by chance. If you look at the topographic map of the area, you will notice that there is the highest point on the surface of the plateau, on the area of which it would be possible to build a flying civilian object in the future. Already in those years, the authorities thought about the possible modernization of the designed runway at the civilian Bryansk airport. Bryansky was dubbed him for administrative belonging to a large settlement nearby, despite the fact that the village of Gorodishche was territorially located much closer. 200 meters to the village (almost across the road) against 5 kilometers (at that time) to the city of Bryansk. However, in the plans of the country's leaders it was planned to give this military (and after a few years already a civilian) object to the distant future. That is why his name was associated with belonging to the region of location.
Prewar years
Already in 1927, the Bryansk NPO airfield, as it was called at that time, was put into operation. It is noteworthy that from 1928 to 1929 the famous Valery Chkalov served in the 15th Bryansk Aviation Squadron , whose name is currently held by several regional airports in the Russian Federation, for example, Chkalovsky Airport near the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region.
In 1934, Bryansk Airport received civilian status and began to accept for refueling flights following the Moscow-Kiev route and back. In those days, this was adopted as a strategic important decision, since the airfield served flights between the two republics, connecting Moscow with the Ukrainian SSR. Due to this fact, a little more than six months after the transfer of the airport to civilian rails, it receives the status of a regional one with a corresponding increase in the level of financing and development of the airport infrastructure. In 1941, just before fascist Germany declared war on the USSR, the airport modernized the runway “A” and the taxiway from the runway to the terminal building.
Thaw
After the occupation of the city by German occupiers, the airport came under the control of the Nazis, but a year later, in 1943, the Red Army recaptured it. Since 1945, the status of the airfield has changed again - the object is being transferred to the military.
After the Great Victory, the 204th squadron of the Moscow air group is stationed here, and a little later three squadrons of the 170th squadron are assigned to the base. In 1946, a new civilian airport was opened in the neighboring city of Bezhitsa (currently one of the districts of the city of Bryansk), which is still operated by small aircraft. At its base are several flying clubs.
In 1961, at the base of a military airfield in the Settlement, the civilian Bryansk airport was reopened. Three years later, the Bryansk United Aircraft Squadron began operations, and in December 1967 the first turbojet aircraft, the newfangled and modern Yak-40, landed on the runway. After the New Year holidays, from January 1968, an era of active exploitation of aircraft of this type begins.
Further development
In 1974, the airport itself, its ground services, including the help desk of the Bryansk airport, which provides information to the population on any issue related to the operation of the airport and flights, move to another building. The new complex was built on the opposite side from the runway and was designed specifically for the administrative needs of the aviation enterprise. Old buildings and structures that were used up to this point were partially demolished.
Until the 90s, the airport operates in a regional status. The assigned category allows serving both turboprop and turbojet aircraft of that time, including the Yak-42 and Tu-154.
Sunset
In the 90s, the issue of flight safety and the reduction of noise pollution of Bryansk, which had grown by then, were particularly acute. The runway of the airport is located in the heart of the city. Affiliated areas, former towns and villages surround the Bryansk Airport. The phone of the city administration is torn from complaints of residents of nearby houses, and, as a result, the city leadership makes a difficult decision to move the airfield. In December 1994, the old airport was closed, and the enterprise was transferred 14 kilometers from the city line to the west. In the same 1994, they opened a new aviation site near the village of October.
New era
Bryansk International Airport gains its new status only a year after its opening. In July 1996, the first international flight departed from there (to Varna, Bulgaria), operated on the An-24 turboprop. In 1997, new international destinations opened for Istanbul (Turkey) and Burgas (Bulgaria), already carried out on the Yak-40 and Tu-134 turbojet airliners.
Development is in full swing. Every year, passengers are offered new flights. Bryansk airport is expanding its directions, including in Russia. In 2010, regular destinations open to Moscow, from 2013 to St. Petersburg, and in 2015 to Simferopol and Krasnodar.
Information about the operation of the airport, as well as the flight schedule, can be specified in the information desk by phone +7 (4832) 59-00-80.