Velikiye Luki Airport () is a suspended airport in
Russia
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located northeast of
Velikiye Luki
Velikiye Luki ( rus, Вели́кие Лу́ки, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪjə ˈlukʲɪ; lit. ''great meanders''. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-П ...
.
From the mid-1920s until 1936 it was used as a stopover airport by the Soviet-German airline
Deruluft
Deruluft (, or Deruluft) was a joint German-Soviet airline, established on 11 November 1921.Allaz, Camille. ''History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century''.Christopher Foyle Publishing, 2005. p. 139. Deruluft opened its first permanen ...
en route between Berlin and Moscow.
Until the mid-1990s it was used to accommodate small civilian airliners servicing regional scheduled flights.
In 2020 a discussion on resuming flights took place with the governor of
Pskov oblast
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.
References
RussianAirFields.com
Defunct airports in Russia
Airports built in the Soviet Union
Airports in Pskov Oblast
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