Magnitogorsk International Airport (russian: Международный аэропорт Магнитогорск) (also given as Magnitogorsk West) is an airport in
Bashkortostan
The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
located 19 km west of
Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk ( rus, Магнитого́рск, p=məɡnʲɪtɐˈɡorsk, ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population ...
,
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...
. It services medium-sized airliners. In 2017, 193,175 passengers passed through the Magnitogorsk airport.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
* On 31 August 1972, an Ilyushin Il-18 operating
Aeroflot Flight 558
Aeroflot Flight 558 ( ''Reys 558 Aeroflota'') was a scheduled Ilyushin Il-18V domestic passenger flight from Karaganda to Moscow that crashed into a field in the Abzelilovsky District on 31 August 1972 as a result of a fire stemming from exploded ...
crashed after failing to land due to an onboard fire.
References
External links
Magnitogorsk Airport official website*
*
Airports built in the Soviet Union
Airports in Bashkortostan
Airports in Chelyabinsk Oblast
Magnitogorsk
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