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Ignatyevo Airport, officially Count Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky Ignatyevo Airport, is the international gateway for Blagoveshchensk in Russia's Amur Oblast, sited close to the village from which it takes its name. It is a busy regional hub handling both domestic and international scheduled traffic, with 24-hour operations and a single long hard-surfaced runway suitable for airliners up to wide-body types.
Ignatyevo Airport serves the city of Blagoveshchensk in Amur Oblast, in Russia's Far East, and is operated under the Novaport group. It is named after Count Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky and handles scheduled domestic and international airline services around the clock, making it a substantial regional field of interest to simulator pilots flying longer Russian Far East routes or airliner operations into a facility that has recently been rebuilt to accommodate wide-body aircraft.
The airport lies near the village of Ignatyevo, about 20 kilometres north-west of the city of Blagoveshchensk, in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is published at coordinates 50.4256N 127.4120E, close to the Amur river border region in the Russian Far East.
Ignatyevo has a single physical runway, 18/36, of 9,149 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS at the field, according to the available data.
Two frequencies are published for the field: 126.4 MHz for Blagoveschensk Meteo, and 127.2 MHz for the tower/approach service, callsign Blagoveschensk Start. No instrument landing system is available at the aerodrome.
The decision to build an airport for Blagoveshchensk was taken by the Amur Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1958, with construction beginning the following year next to the village of Ignatyevo, after which the field is named. The airport opened on 9 January 1960, initially with a wooden terminal, and by 1962 services connected it to Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Chita and Irkutsk. Flights to Moscow began in January 1963 using Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft via a stopover in Krasnoyarsk. A new terminal, capable of handling 200 passengers per hour, opened on 18 August 1965, and on 1 January 1983 a runway reconstruction was completed to allow operation of Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft. The airport's activity declined during the early 1990s amid the economic disruption following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In July 1997 the Governor of Amur Oblast established Airport Blagoveshchensk as a regionally owned unitary enterprise to operate the field, and partial reconstruction followed in the 2000s. Plans for a new terminal, first mooted in 1988, resumed in 2007 and the new terminal was commissioned on 30 December 2010, with the older 1960s terminal retained for surge capacity. In 2018 an extensive two-stage reconstruction was announced, comprising a new wide-body-capable runway followed by a new terminal; the airport was officially named after Count Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky in 2019, the same year construction of the new runway began. On 23 April 2021 the government of Amur Oblast, ABS Blagoveshchensk LLC and Novaport signed an agreement for the airport's development, with investment exceeding seven billion rubles. The new runway entered service on 25 December 2023, inaugurated by a Rossiya Airlines Boeing 737 arriving from Krasnoyarsk, while the old runway was decommissioned and converted to aircraft parking. On 30 October 2025 a Rossiya Airlines Boeing 747-400 became the first wide-body aircraft to land at Ignatyevo. Construction of a new passenger terminal began on 27 May 2023, and the rebuilt terminal, more than three times the size of its predecessor, opened on 28 March 2026.
Ignatyevo is a large, actively used airport handling up to medium-sized airliners, with parking space for 44 civilian aircraft and 24-hour flight operations. Scheduled carriers recorded include Aurora, IrAero, Rossiya, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines, VietJet Air and Yakutia Airlines, serving destinations such as Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, together with seasonal charter services. The airport underwent major reconstruction culminating in a new runway commissioned in December 2023 and a substantially enlarged terminal opened in March 2026, reflecting continued growth in both domestic and international traffic through the field.