Syktyvkar Southwest is an unfinished and abandoned airport in Komi,

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located 19 km southwest of

Syktyvkar Syktyvkar (, rus, Сыктывка́р, p=sɨktɨfˈkar; kv, Сыктывкар) is the capital city of the Komi Republic in Russia, as well as its largest city. It is also the capital of the Syktyvkar Urban Okrug. Until 1930, it was known as U ...

. It was intended to be a civilian airport and was partially constructed in the 1980s, but with the

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and the resulting drop in air passenger traffic, the plans to complete it were dropped. Today, the existing

Syktyvkar Airport Syktyvkar Airport is an airport in the Komi Republic, Russia located just within the city of Syktyvkar Syktyvkar (, rus, Сыктывка́р, p=sɨktɨfˈkar; kv, Сыктывкар) is the capital city of the Komi Republic in Russia, as ...

within city limits continues to serve as the city's air transport gateway.

References

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