Tiksi Airport

IATA: IKS – ICAO: UEST

Summary

Airport type

Military

Operator

Russian Air Force

Location

Tiksi

Elevation AMSL

26 ft / 8 m

Coordinates

71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E / 71.69750°N 128.90278°ECoordinates: 71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E / 71.69750°N 128.90278°E

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
03/21	9,845	3,001	Concrete

Tiksi Aerodrome (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Russia and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States (as a so-called 'bounce' airdrome). It is used regularly by Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice travelling to the Canadian arctic. Two other nearby airfields known as Tiksi North and Tiksi West have been abandoned for decades, and are probable unusable according to satellite imagery.

According to Farecompare.com, a total of 50 daily seats are flown into Tiksi Airport every day. The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an Antonov An-24 turboprop airplane.

2012 closure

The airport was closed without notice on October 1, 2012 by its owner, the Defense Ministry, due to the runway being unsafe and needing repair work.^[1] The closure was not coordinated with local or state government. Though the city was connected by winter roads, the loss of air service impaired the delivery of medicines, foods and other essential goods, and in February 2013 boilers in the city went out of service for an extended period. The issue rose to the highest levels of Russian government. Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev said in April 2013 "the Ministry of Defense committed a real mistake to jeopardize the existence of an entire village. This is an outrage.".^[2] Negotiations between the Defense Ministry and Yakutia government led to an agreement to Antonov An-24 service starting in June 2013. Reconstruction of the runway in several phases is scheduled for 2013 with completion by about 2015 or 2016.

In July 2014, ITAR TASS reported Roman Filimonov (Head of the Defence Ministry's Construction department), announcing that Russia would be building six military towns in their Arctic region, “These will be closed zones with comfortable living and service conditions,” he said, adding “We’re restoring the infrastructure of the Tiksi airport. We hope that the construction will be completed next year”.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Polar Airlines	Yakutsk
Lorgavia	Norglograd Parfenovo, Shuvelovsk Sheselovo
Yakutia Airlines	Moscow-Vnukovo,^[4] Yakutsk

External links

Airport information for UEST at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
(Russian) Airport Tiksi Aviateka.Handbook

References

↑ Якутский аэропорт Тикси закрыт для приема и отправки рейсов до декабря, причины не названы. Газета.ru (in Russian). Moscow. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
↑ "Tiksi Airport will open to receive the AN-24.". rg.ru (in Russian). Moscow. April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
↑ "Aviation bombers gets sudden financial boost from Moscow". Famagusta Gazette. July 27, 2014.
↑ "Возобновляется рейс Тикси - Москва". Yakutian-Sakha information agency. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

Airports in the Sakha Republic

Active	Aldan Aykhal Batagay Belaya Gora Chersky Chokurdakh Chulman Deputatsky Kyzyl-Syr Lensk Magan Mirny Moma Nyurba Olenyok Olyokminsk Polyarny Sakkyryr Saskylakh Srednekolymsk Suntar Talakan Teply Klyuch Tiksi Ust-Kuyga Ust-Maya Ust-Nera Verkhnevilyuysk Vilyuysk Vitim Yakutsk Yugarenok Zhigansk Zyryanka

Defunct	Tiksi West Airfield Zyryanka West

Airports built in the Soviet Union

Military

Active	Borisoglebskoye Airfield Burevestnik Dzyomgi Kirovsk-Apatity Klyuchi Air Base Kondinskoye Levashovo Magdagachi Poltava Air Base Pugachev Air Base Rzhev Air Base Samara Kryazh Saratov West Air Base Tatishchevo Air Base Tiksi West Airfield Tilichiki Tushino Airfield Uka Yaroslavl Levtsovo Yevpatoria Yugorsk Sovetsky

Defunct	Baherove Air Base Bakharevka Jonava Lenino Saratov South Air Base Smirnykh Air Base Tiksi Vetrovoye Air Base

Civilian

Active

International

Defunct

International	Donetsk

Joint Use

Active

International	Baikal Manas Odessa Perm Zhukovsky Sevastopol

Defunct

Pskov

Other

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