When a traveler flies to Yakutia, he beginsto worry about how this land will meet him with harsh nature. I really do not want to experience the cold in the first minutes after landing. Surely passengers will be dropped off from the cabin in the middle of the field? Where to expect baggage? What conditions can boast airport of Yakutsk? Is there any hotel near the air harbor? This will tell our article.
It cannot be said that Yakutia (the official nameThe Republic of Sakha) was a favorite and popular destination. But many tourists use this airport as a transit point on the way to the resorts of Thailand, for example, to Phuket. What do they say about the conditions at the airport? It should be said that the old and new reviews are very different. Maybe the reason is that a new terminal was put into operation? It opened at the end of June 2012.
The air harbor of the Republic of Sakha has a secondunofficial, the name - "Tuymaada." This name is the valley in which Yakutsk is located. And the name passed on to the airport terminal. As for its characteristics, quite often we will have to repeat the word "very." After all, "Yakutsk" - the airport is in many ways unique. For example, it is the only testing ground in the world where new flying machines are tested in natural conditions of low temperatures. And also this airport became the first point from which a flight over the Far North of the USSR and Siberia was made (to Irkutsk). Now the air terminal has the status of international and federal significance. It is based airline "Polar Airlines" and "Yakutia". At the moment, the passenger traffic of the airport is 850 thousand people a year. This modest figure is due to the fact that Yakutsk is not so frequently visited city. But the airport capacity is seven hundred passengers per hour! So the potential at the air station is truly enormous.
October 8, 1925 can be called a birthdayAviation in Yakutia. On this day, the first plane took off from the harbor of Darkilakh. Three years later, the Irkutsk-Yakutsk air service was established. The airport in the republic began to be built in 1931 and finished in 1935. Even now, however, in a renewed form, it exists in the old place, in the valley of Tuymaada. At first, the airport was used as a transport hub between the mines. And for civil aviation, they began to operate it from 1940, when they built a small terminal with rooms for personnel and passengers, a buffet and a weather station. After the end of the Second World War began regular flights to Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan. In 1964, an airport hotel was built. And in 1985, it was replaced by the new Hotel Liner, which is still in effect today. After successful testing at low temperatures, the Boeing-757 Yakutsk Airport received a new impetus for development. In 1996, a new air terminal was opened, which received international status. In 2012, a new terminal was launched. The old building became part of the airport complex.
В состав этого транспортного узла входит passenger and cargo airport "Yakutsk", service ground navigator-dispatchers, the company "Aerotorgservis", which prepares food for meals on board, customs and border control, hangars, dog training. Many airlines in the USA, Japan, as well as FinnAir, KLM, Singapore Aelinez, SpeedBird (United Kingdom), Lufthansa, Aeroflot and others have recognized this airport as possible for landing at cross-polar routes. The first international flight was launched on a regular basis to Harbin in 2006. A year later, one of the world's largest Boeing 747-200 aircraft was accepted.
Фото аэропорта Якутска демонстрируют вполне modern spacious terminal that meets the requirements for the international class "C". The building has six elevators, four escalators. Airplanes are supplied with telescopic sleeves. In addition to the usual waiting room, there is a zone for business class passengers and a VIP area. Baggage issued on circular paths. There is a cafe in the terminal building. The area in front of the air terminal looks no less presentable. There is parking and a monument to Karina Chikitova and her dog Naida as a sign of touching friendship and resilience. Hotel Yakutsk Airport is also part of the complex. It has one hundred and thirty comfortable rooms of different categories. On the ground floor of the hotel there is a sushi bar.
The Republic of Sakha has a huge territory.And many of its corners are connected with civilization only by air. Not surprisingly, local flights account for about 70 percent of the entire circulation of aircraft from Yakutsk Airport. As for the cities of Russia, Yakutsk is connected with Moscow (Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo), St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Khabarovsk, Anapa and Sochi . Abroad from the airport you can fly to Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket), Vietnam (Nha Trang), Hong Kong, Seoul, Harbin. The hub serves twelve airlines. Among them are Aeroflot, Yakutia, S7, IrAero, Polar Airlines, Globus and others.
The airport is located seven kilometers north ofcity center. His address is: st. Gagarin, 10, Yakutsk. You can stay in a three-star hotel "Liner", it is the largest in the city. The hotel is part of the airport complex. And to Yakutsk you can be reached in ten minutes by city buses No. 18 and 4.
