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Khabarovsk Novy Airport (ICAO UHHH, IATA KHV) is a major international gateway in Russia's Far East, sited on the eastern edge of Khabarovsk city on the Amur River. It is a substantial hub with two long, ILS-equipped runways, serving as a base for Aurora, S7 Airlines, Yakutia Airlines and several other Russian carriers, making it an interesting and demanding destination for the simulator pilot flying heavy or airliner types into Siberia's Far East.
Khabarovsk Novy Airport lies on the eastern side of the city of Khabarovsk, in Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East, close to the border with China. It is operated by JSC Khabarovsk Airport and functions as a hub for Aurora, S7 Airlines, Vostok Aviation Company, Yakutia Airlines and other operators, handling a substantial mix of domestic, regional and international traffic. For the virtual pilot it offers two very long hard-surfaced runways with ILS approaches, set against a backdrop of Far Eastern Russian aviation history stretching back to the 1930s.
The airport sits at the eastern part of the city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River in Khabarovsk Krai, at coordinates 48.5281N 135.188E and an elevation of 226 feet. A smaller airfield known as Khabarovsk MVL, used for charter and general aviation work, lies immediately adjacent to the west side of Novy Airport.
Khabarovsk Novy has two parallel hard-surfaced runways, both lit and equipped with ILS. The longer pair, 05R/23L, is 13,175 feet in length. The shorter pair, 05L/23R, measures 11,498 feet. Both runways are substantial enough to accommodate the full range of airliner types operating into the field.
Khabarovsk Approach is available on 125.2 MHz, with ATIS broadcast on 124.875 MHz. Khabarovsk Tower operates on 119.3 MHz, and Khabarovsk Krug provides radar service on 120.3 MHz. Khabarovsk Transit is worked on 131.8 MHz, and a VOLMET broadcast is transmitted on 127.875 MHz. Both runways are served by ILS.
The origins of the airport lie in the growing demand for air travel around Khabarovsk in the early 1930s, when the existing hydroports in the area proved insufficient. The first airport on the present site opened in 1938. A runway with an artificial turf surface, measuring 2,500 by 80 metres, was commissioned in 1953, and on 21 March 1954 a terminal with a capacity of 400 passengers per hour began operating. A larger terminal followed in 1964. In 1970 the airport was granted international status, and its first charter international service, to Osaka in Japan, carried participants travelling to the Expo '70 exhibition. In 1991 Alaska Airlines began operating Boeing 727 flights between Khabarovsk and Anchorage, Alaska, routed via Magadan. The old Soviet-era terminal was demolished in 2016 to make way for a new terminal building, which opened in 2019.
Khabarovsk Novy remains a busy hub airport, serving as a base for Aurora, S7 Airlines, Vostok Aviation Company, Yakutia Airlines and other carriers, with services reaching destinations across the Russian Far East, Siberia, China and beyond. The adjacent Khabarovsk MVL airfield to the west continues to handle charter and general aviation traffic with a shorter runway of around 960 metres.