Khurba Airport (also given as Komsomolsk South, Khurba, Uchastok, and Kalinovka) is an air base (also used as an airport (russian: Аэропорт Хурба)) in
Khabarovsk Krai,
Russia
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south of
Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This medium-sized base has considerable tarmac space and an extended area of
revetments. It handles medium-sized airliners.
Units stationed at Komsomolsk-na-Amur/Khurba include:
* 277 BAP (277th Bomber Aviation Regiment) currently changing from flying
Sukhoi Su-24M2s in the 1990-2000s
to the
Sukhoi Su-34 with the first 10 delivered.
** Deployed to
Lida (air base) in Belarus as part of the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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* 216 IAP (216th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying
Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft during 1986–1987 in addition to 277 BAP).
* 26 Gv OPIB (26th Guards Independent Fighter-Bomber Regiment) flying
Sukhoi Su-17M3 aircraft at the end of the
Cold War.
This unit operated under
1st Air Army
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(1 OA), i.e. Far East Air Army).
History
Khurba Airport began as a military airfield garrison Khurba-2. The airfield was built during the Great Patriotic War with its old original runway with length of 810 meters is not currently in use. At the airport deployed:
*From November 1948 to June 1962: 311th Fighter Regiment defense on the Yak-9, MiG-15, MiG-17 and Su-9. Disbanded at the airport June 21, 1962
*From 1991 to 1998: 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment with Su-27 airplanes
*From October 1970 to September 1, 2009: 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment Mlavsky Red Banner on the Sukhoi Su-24M
Later, the garrison was reorganized to the 6988-th Air Base. The airfield was built for the Ministry of Defense standards with scattered parking, arched reinforced concrete shelters for aircraft and reserve a dirt runway parallel to the concrete.
The airport regularly worked in Soviet times with daily flying international flights for the Far East region.
1990s to 2000s
From the late 1990s to late 2000s, the airport was effectively closed to passenger traffic, in the summer time (periodically) flying to Moscow JSC "Krasnoyarsk airlines" airplanes Tu-154 with a stopover in Krasnoyarsk (once a week). In summer 2009, after a decade flights began to perform again in Moscow - the carriage is performed airline "Vladivostok Avia" in the aircraft Tu-204-300. In late 2011, "Vladivostok Avia" was purchased by Aeroflot, whose leadership has recognized the flights to and from Komsomolsk-on-Amur are unprofitable, and a major industrial center of the Far East was again left without a direct air link to the capital.
2010s
In 2016 the airport was
privatized
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with its shares sold for 70.15 million ruble to a St. Petersburg "EVM Property". It is planned to resume air service between Komsomolsk-on-Amur and cities such as Khabarovsk,
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
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,
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (russian: Никола́евск-на-Аму́ре, translit=Nikoláyevsk-na-Amúrye) is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia located on the Amur River close to its liman in the Pacific Ocean. Population:
Geography
The town is ...
,
Okhotsk
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...
,
Vladivostok
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,
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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and
Irkutsk. In the future, it will be established air communication with Moscow. It is expected that the airport will open at least five regional flights a week.
Аэропорт Комсомольска-на-Амуре приватизировали
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Airlines and destinations
See also
* Komsomolsk-na-Amure Dzyomgi Airport, which is north of the city
References
External links
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Official website
*http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KXK
Soviet Air Force bases
Soviet Frontal Aviation
Soviet Air Defence Force bases
Russian Air Force bases
Airports in Khabarovsk Krai
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