Talakan is an airport located in Yakutia. It was named so because it was built specifically for the needs of the Talakan oil and gas condensate field. That is why this airdrome was created not with state money, but thanks to the private investments of Surgutneftegaz. This situation is unique. After all, the payback of such large-scale projects is at least a century. Therefore, up to this point, the state invested exclusively in the construction of airports.
Literally 112 km from the village of Vitim Talakan is located. The airport address is as follows: Republic of Sakha, p. Talakan. Zip code - 678150. There are several ways to get to the airport:
- by regular bus;
- by taxi;
- on your own car.
Opening
Today, Talakan is an airport that is a one-of-a-kind private investment project. No budget funds were raised for its construction. Surgutneftegas invested about 15,000,000,000 rubles in the creation of this project.
The first technical flight was accepted here in November 2012. It was performed by UTair. A Tu-154 M aircraft landed on the runway . Since then, the airfield has been considered open.
Today, the management of the entire airport complex is carried out by the Airport-Surgut company.
The official opening of Talakan was solemn. The president of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) E. Borisov, as well as the deputy representative of the Federation Council V. Shtyrov and, of course, the general director of Surgutneftegaz V. Bogdanov took part in it.
Already in December 2012, a TU-154 aircraft with passengers landed at the airport. These were 166 people who came to work in the field on a rotational basis.
timetable
The entire schedule of Talakan Airport is 10 flights. All of them fly out in the daytime. Routes are as follows:
- Krasnoyarsk;
- Ufa
- Peaceful;
- Irkutsk
- Novosibirsk
- Surgut
- Lensk;
- Ust-Kut;
- Moscow;
- Noyabrsk.
Shift flights are made from Surgut, Lensk, Ust-Kut. It is on these planes that the workers arrive.
These flights are operated by Alrosa, UTair and Angara. Now the airport management is working to attract new carriers that will make flights to other parts of Russia. This will favorably affect the development of the region’s route network.
The total capacity of the airport is about 200 passengers per 1 hour. Currently, only 1/3 of this maximum indicator is used.
Runways
Talakan is an airport (photo confirms this) with just one runway. It has a length of 3100 meters and a width of 42 meters. These sizes allow you to receive such aircraft at the airport, such as:
- Airbus A320;
- An-24;
- Tu-154;
- An-26;
- Tu-134;
- Boeing 737;
- Bombardier CRJ 100/200;
- and other aircraft of a lighter class.
In addition, this runway is designed to accept all types of helicopters.
It is made of high quality reinforced concrete.
Infrastructure
Due to the fact that Talakan is a rather small airport, the infrastructure inside the terminal is poorly developed. True, investment in the development of this side continues. Therefore, in the near future a favorable prospect is very likely. Now in the territory of the airport are:
- trade stalls;
- the shops;
- Cafe;
- luggage storage compartment;
- ATM;
- parking for cars.
There is no hotel in the complex. The nearest is located 150 km from Talakan. This situation is not critical, as there are no connecting flights. And either the residents of the region or the workers who fly to work in oil and gas fields use the airport.
Talakan is an airport that has radically changed the level of accessibility of this particular part of Siberia. And these are completely new opportunities in the development of the natural resources of this region.