Khatanga Airport is an airport in

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located southeast of Khatanga. It is a major airfield servicing medium-sized airliners. Interceptor aircraft were based here in the 1970s, and the airfield may have been home to deployments from

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. Today it serves as a hub for

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tourist expeditions via

Sredny Ostrov Sredny Ostrov is a small island ('ostrov') and a military airfield in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located in the northern Kara Sea, off the archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya and almost 900 km north of Khatanga which in turn is on the Siberian ...

; however, the Arctic regions still remain sensitive military zones and Khatanga is the first stop requiring entry permission from

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border guards. One of its uses is as a diversion airport if a twin-engine airliner experiences engine problems while flying over Siberia; however, the airport is only equipped for landings during good weather.

Airlines and destinations

References

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