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Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport lies at Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic of eastern Siberia, a major regional hub built around a single long paved runway. It has served since the 1930s as a key stopover on Arctic and trans-Siberian air routes and today handles both domestic Sakha services and international connections, as well as periodic cold-weather aircraft testing.
Yakutsk Airport is the principal aerodrome serving Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in the Russian Far East. It functions as the hub for several regional carriers, most notably Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines, and connects the city to a wide network of remote northern settlements as well as major Russian and some international destinations. For a simulator pilot, it is of interest both for its extreme high-latitude, high-altitude-cold operating environment and for its long single runway, which has made it a recurring venue for manufacturer cold-weather testing.
The airport sits at Yakutsk, on the Lena River in the Sakha Republic, at coordinates 62.0933 N, 129.773 E. It is a large international airport with scheduled airline traffic, positioned to serve as a gateway to numerous smaller airfields across the vast and sparsely served Sakha region.
The airport has a single physical runway, oriented 05/23, with a hard paved surface and runway lighting; it measures approximately 11,083 feet in the 05 direction and 11,082 feet in the 23 direction. There is no ILS. An older, shorter runway that formerly ran roughly parallel is no longer active as a runway and is now used as a parking area for stored aircraft.
Radio services at Yakutsk include Approach on 129.3 MHz, ATIS on 126.2 MHz, Ground on 121.7 MHz, a surveillance radar service on 120.3 MHz, and Tower on 120 MHz.
Construction of the airport began in 1931, and during the Second World War it served as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route used to ferry American-built aircraft to Europe. The present international terminal was built in 1996, and the airport has since been used as a diversion field on Polar Route 4. It is named after Platon Oyunsky, a Yakut writer who was killed during the Great Purge. Between as early as 2003 and as recently as 2017, Boeing used the airport for certification and cold-weather testing of its aircraft, taking advantage of the region's severe winter conditions.
Yakutsk Airport remains a busy hub, handling around 700 passengers per hour through its terminal and serving as the base for Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines alongside services from Aeroflot, Alrosa Air Enterprise, IrAero, Rossiya Airlines and S7 Airlines. Destinations range from major Russian cities such as Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok to a large number of remote Sakha settlements including Tiksi, Cherskiy, Olekminsk and Zhigansk, reflecting the airport's continuing role as a key link across the region.