Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) International Airport (Tunoshna - also Tunoshnoye, or Tunoschna) (russian: Международный аэропорт Ярославль (Ту́ношна)) is an airport in

Yaroslavl Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast (russian: Яросла́вская о́бласть, ''Yaroslavskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma ...

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, located 18 km southeast of

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. It is served by medium-sized airliners. The airport is situated next to the

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History

During the

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Tunoshna was a key

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base. It was home to 415 IAP (415th Interceptor Aviation Regiment). The base initially operated the

Sukhoi Su-9 The Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) was a single-engine, all-weather, missile-armed interceptor aircraft developed by the Soviet Union. Development The Su-9 emerged from aerodynamic studies by TsAGI, the Soviet aerodynamic center, ...

(Fishpot) in the 1960s. The regiment replaced it in 1979 with the MiG-23P (Flogger-G).PHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR
February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC. This aircraft served at Tunoshna during the 1980s and 1990s. The 415 IAP was decommissioned in 1992 and the MiG-23s were sent to

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Terminals

The passenger terminal (with an area of 1000 m²) is designed to handle 180 domestic or 100 international passengers per hour. The cargo terminal (with an area of 833 m²) is designed to handle up to 150 tonnes of cargo per day. The airport complex entered service in 2002 and was reconstructed in 2013.

Airlines and destinations

The list of regular services changes frequently. According to the airport's website as of February 2020 the following flights are scheduled:

Accidents and incidents

On 6 September 1994, the MiG-23UB crashed into terrain due to loss of control. On 7 September 2011, the

2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 air charter, charter flight operated by Yak-Service, YAK-Service carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed on take-off nea ...

occurred, killing nearly the entire

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Hockey Club Lokomotiv (russian: ХК Локомотив, en, Locomotive HC), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team, based in the city of Yaroslavl, playing in the top level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ...

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professional ice hockey team. A Yak-Service

Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airli ...

, carrying the team to a game in

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, Belarus crashed on take-off from Tunoshna, killing 44 of the 45 occupants. The plane crashed and broke up approximately from the end of the runway, at the

. The cause was determined to be pilot error, when one of the two pilots incorrectly applied braking during takeoff, attributed to a lack of training in the aircraft.

References

External links

* Soviet Air Force bases Soviet Air Defence Force bases Russian Air Force bases Airports built in the Soviet Union Airports in Yaroslavl Oblast {{Russia-airport-stub