Novy Urengoy Airport is an airport in

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

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located 4 km southwest of

Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy (russian: Но́вый Уренго́й, lit: “New Urengoy”; Nenets: Едэй Уренгой, ''Edėy Urengoy'') is a city in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: It is the second largest city in the autonomous ...

. It handles medium-sized aircraft.

History

New terminal construction

On 25 July 2017, the contest was held, to confirm the firm, that will handle the airport reconstruction works, therefore on 7 September 2018, the airport started to be operated by

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and began to construct the new terminal, parking space, apron and runway refurbishment. Initially, construction was planned to finish by end of 2021, but due to issues faced from

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, construction will finish by December 2022.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Annual traffic

References

External links

* http://nux.aero/ Airports built in the Soviet Union Airports in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug {{Russia-airport-stub