Kulob Airport or Kulyab Airport is an
airport
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serving
Kulob
Kulob ( tg, Кӯлоб, کولاﺏ, translit=Kûlob/Kūlob), formerly also Kulyab (russian: Куляб, translit=Kuljab), is a city in Khatlon Region, southern Tajikistan. Located southeast of the capital Dushanbe on the river Yakhsu (a right tr ...
, a city in the
Khatlon
Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...
province in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
.
Facilities
The airport resides at an
elevation
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of above
mean sea level
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. It has one
runway
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designated 01/19 with an
asphalt
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surface measuring .
Airlines and destinations
, the airport currently offers no domestic flights, as all of its flights are international flights to
Russia
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.
References
* Polyot-Siren
Flight schedule
External links
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Airports in Tajikistan
Khatlon Region
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