Bratsk Airport (russian: Аэропорт Братск) is an airport in

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and N ...

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located north of

Bratsk Bratsk ( rus, Братск, p=bratsk) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. Etymology The name sounds like the Russian word for "brother" ("", '' ...

. It is a mixed use airfield, providing 32 parking spaces for medium-sized airliners. Bratsk airport serves as a

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2.Boeing-conducted Airport safety and operational assessments
/ref> The airport is described as an international airport, although currently only serves internal flights in Russia. The 350 IAP (350th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) began in 1984 with a number of

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(Fiddler) aircraft. Bratsk was responsible for air defense of most of the

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n interior region and depended on the long-range capability of the Tu-128 to cover this vast territory. By the 1990s the unit had been upgraded with

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jets. The 350 IAP was disbanded in 2002, following this, a small search and rescue detachment of three An-26 (Curl) transports and three Mi-8 (Hip) helicopters under the command of the 32 OSAP (32nd Otdel’nyy smeshannaya avia polk, or “Independent Composite Aviation Regiment”) based at Yekaterinburg. This detachment had previously been known as 11 APSO. Most of the military barrack blocks and ancillary buildings have now been demolished although the large hangar dating back to the 1980s is still standing. Currently Bratsk Airport continues to serve a vital civil aviation role as a staging base for cargo flights to

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. The airport is operated by

AeroBratsk JSC AeroBratsk (russian: АэроБратск) is a minor Russian charter airline headquartered in Bratsk and based at Bratsk Airport,Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Airline Reference'', Vol. 1, Ru ...

, its major civilian tenant. The airport consistently serves more than 100,000 passengers each year. It is the second largest airport in the

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the 25th-larges ...

region.

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