Dikson Airport () is a small commercial airport in

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located west of the

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of Dikson on a small island. The airport is owned by

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. It primarily services small transport aircraft.

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reports from 1952 released under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the USSR was using Dikson as a staging airfield for

Tupolev Tu-4 The Tupolev Tu-4 (russian: Туполев Ту-4; NATO reporting name: Bull) is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was reverse-engineered from the American Boeing B-29 S ...

(

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: Bull) aircraft.

Airlines and destinations

References

Airports built in the Soviet Union Airports in Krasnoyarsk Krai {{Russia-airport-stub Soviet Long Range Aviation Arctic staging bases