Bezymyanka Airport is an experimental

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in the

Aviakor OJSC Aviakor (russian: Авиако́р) is an aviation plant located in Samara, Russia. It is part of the Russian Machines holding under control of the financial industrial group Basic Element owned by Oleg Deripaska. Aviakor constructs, rep ...

aviation plant in the city of

Samara, Russia Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of ...

. It is located east of the Bezymyanka railroad station in the Kirov district of Samara, east of the city center. To the east of the airport, the Smyshlyaevka airport is located. To the south, the settlements

Chkalov Valery Pavlovich Chkalov ( rus, Валерий Павлович Чкалов, p=vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕkaləf; – 15 December 1938) was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936). Early life Chkalov was bo ...

, Padovka, and the

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. To the north, the Aviakor aviation plant and the

TsSKB-Progress The Progress Rocket Space Centre (russian: Ракетно-космический центр «Прогресс»), formerly known as TsSKB-Progress (russian: ЦСКБ-Прогресс), is a Russian joint-stock company under the jurisdiction ...

plant. The airport has a class 1 rating and can serve most airplane and helicopter types. The total runway length is . Founded in 1942, the first runway utilized bricks as its pavement. After

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, the aviation plants 1 and 18 were evacuated to Kuibyshev (now known as Samara) from

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and

Voronezh Voronezh ( rus, links=no, Воро́неж, p=vɐˈronʲɪʂ}) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the ...

. At the earliest possible date they set up the production of

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aircraft. In the second part of the 20th century, the airport served as the testing ground for a number of

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and

Antonov Antonov State Enterprise ( uk, Державне підприємство «Антонов»), formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov (Antonov ASTC) ( uk, Авіаційний науково-технічни� ...

aircraft produced by the above-mentioned aviation plants. Since 1958, plant 1 was redesigned for the production of

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s and

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s. The airport also started a charter transportation service to

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and

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, which continue today. In 1980, the airport was used to transport components of the Energia rocket carrier to

on the

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aircraft in preparation for the

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flight. The runway was extended to a length of .

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