Baikonur Krayniy Airport (russian: Аэропорт Крайний — Байконур) is the airport serving the city of Baikonur in

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. It is located on the right bank of the Syr Darya river, 6 km west of Baikonur (at site 15A of the Baikonur cosmodrome). The official name is "Baikonur (Extreme)".Aeronautical Information Publication No. 13. CAI GA, 2013 The airport operates charter passenger and cargo-passenger flights to Moscow, and occasionally to other cities of Russia and Kazakhstan. The airport is leased by Russia from Kazakhstan as part of the Baikonur complex for a period until 2050, and is included in the State Register of Civil Airfields of the Russian Federation.

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Aerodrome Extreme class B has one

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

and is able to receive

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such as the

IL-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau. It was first planned as a comme ...

(with restrictions by aircraft weight and number of takeoffs and landings per day),

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, Airbus A310, A320 and anything lighter, including

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

s of all types. Classification number PCN

Runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

53 / F / C / W / T was known as 21 / R / B / X / T until 2015. The width of

taxiway A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete, although smaller general aviation airports sometimes use gravel ...

No. 3 is 18 m. Taxiways No. 1, 2, 4, and 5 are temporarily (pending their reconstruction) not used. To the north of the airfield, the Arys-I -

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(Kandagach) railway runs from west to east near Tyuratam Station, at 7 km north-east of the airfield and traverse number 103 at 5 km north of the airfield. In Western historical and geographical sources, Extreme is designated as '' Tyuratam '' or '' Tyuratam1 '' (after the name of the nearest railway station

Tyuratam Töretam ( kk, link=no, Төретам, Töretam; russian: link=no, Тюратам, Tyuratam) is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan. The name means "Töre's grave" in the Kazakh language. Töre, or more formal ...

). In the northern part of the Baikonur Сosmodrome, 40 km north-northwest of the city of Baikonur there is an experimental airfield, Yubileyniy. Five km east of the airfield, on the western outskirts of the city of Baikonur, there is a helipad where a special-purpose aviation detachment is based for the

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(

s " Robinson R44 "). The helipad was created in July 2004. There is also a helipad on the territory of Hospital No. 1 FGUZ MSCH-1 FMBA RF in the city of Baikonur (formerly a military hospital).

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