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Mirny Airport lies in the heart of Yakutia, four kilometres east of the diamond-mining town of Mirny in the Sakha Republic, and is best known to sim pilots for its long single runway and role as a Polar route diversion field. Operated by Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise and also home to a Russian Aerospace Forces transport squadron, it supports 24-hour operations for medium-sized jet traffic in one of Siberia's most remote regions.
Mirny Airport serves the diamond-mining town of Mirny in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, and is the home base of Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise, the airline arm of the ALROSA diamond conglomerate. It handles medium-sized aircraft around the clock and is also used as a diversion airport on Polar route 3, making it a notable waypoint for long-haul polar traffic. The field additionally hosts the 17th Independent Transport Aviation Squadron of the Russian Aerospace Forces, giving it a mixed civil and military character that will interest sim pilots exploring remote Siberian aviation.
The airport sits in Yakutia (the Sakha Republic), about four kilometres east of the town of Mirny, close to the Mir diamond mine whose workings are visible from the air near the field. It lies within Russian domestic airspace in one of the most sparsely populated and remote regions covered by this guide, far from other major aerodromes.
Mirny has a single physical runway, 07/25, oriented east-west. It is 9,144 feet long with a hard surface and is lit for night operations. An ILS is provided for approaches to runway 25, supporting operations in the demanding weather conditions typical of this part of Siberia.
Pilots can expect the following services: APPROACH on 125.9 MHz, ATIS on 126.6 MHz, and TOWER on 120.8 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 25, providing an instrument approach into the field.
Mirny Airport was established to serve the diamond-mining settlement of Mirny, which grew up around the nearby Mir mine, and the airport's satellite imagery still shows it sited close to that vast open-pit workings. It became the home base of Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise, the aviation subsidiary of the ALROSA diamond company, and also came to host the 17th Independent Transport Aviation Squadron of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The airport has long functioned as a diversion field on Polar route 3, a role reflecting its position in the sparsely served Siberian interior. On 1 November 2009 an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo jet operated by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs crashed shortly after take-off from Mirny while repositioning to Irkutsk after a cargo delivery; the aircraft banked sharply to the right and crashed near the Mir mine, killing all eleven people on board.
Mirny continues to support round-the-clock flight operations and handles medium-sized aircraft. Scheduled carriers using the airport include ALROSA, with services to Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Polyarny, Yakutsk and Yekaterinburg, alongside NordStar to Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, S7 Airlines to Novosibirsk, and Yakutia Airlines to Yakutsk with a seasonal link to Khabarovsk. The field passed through 329,446 passengers in 2017 and remains a base for both Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise and a Russian Aerospace Forces transport squadron.