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Yelizovo Airport (ICAO UHPP) serves Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia's Far East, sharing its single very long runway between civilian flights and a resident Russian Naval Aviation unit. For the simulator pilot it offers one of the longest runways in Russia set against the dramatic volcanic backdrop of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Yelizovo Airport lies at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka Krai, in the Russian Far East, and is operated by the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise. It is a joint civil-military aerodrome, sharing its runway with a substantial Russian Pacific Fleet naval aviation presence, and is the principal gateway to the Kamchatka Peninsula. For a simulator pilot the appeal lies in its remote, volcano-ringed setting, its exceptionally long single runway, and the mix of civil airliner and military traffic that can be seen on the apron.
The airfield sits close to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, at coordinates 53.1692 N, 158.449 E and an elevation of 118 feet. It is a large airport handling scheduled airline services as well as based military aircraft, reflecting its dual civil-military role.
Yelizovo has a single physical runway, 16/34, with the two ends measured at 11,357 feet and 11,373 feet respectively, both of hard surface. There is no ILS recorded for the field.
Yelizovo works traffic on ARSA at 119.4 MHz, and Petropavlovsk Krug (control) tower on 118.1 MHz, with Petropavlovsk Start also listed among the field's frequencies. No ILS is available at the airport.
One of the earliest references to the Elizovo airfield dates to 1942. Under wartime agreements with Japan, Soviet Russia was barred from basing military aircraft in Kamchatka, so the region's military aviation had initially relied on a hydro-airfield on Lake Khalaktyrskoye rather than a proper airfield network. On 4 May 1942 the 128th Mixed Aviation Division began forming at Elizovo from the 71st separate mixed aviation regiment of the 1st Far Eastern Fleet, and from March 1942 the 888th Fighter Aviation Regiment was also raised, flying Bell P-63 Kingcobras from Yelizovo and Ozerny until October 1945, after which it moved to the Kuriles and was eventually disbanded in 1958. The 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment, activated as an assault regiment in 1939, has been based at the field since 1945; renamed and transferred between commands over the decades, it flew Sukhoi Su-15s from 1974 and re-equipped with Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptors in 1985, coming under the Russian Pacific Fleet in 1998. The 317th Independent Mixed Aviation Regiment was established in November 1961 with reconnaissance, anti-submarine and helicopter squadrons, flying Tupolev Tu-16Rs, Beriev Be-6s and later Be-12s, and Mil Mi-4 helicopters; its Tu-16Rs left service in 1993. Naval Tupolev Tu-95MS aircraft have also operated from the field. On 1 April 2012 reconstruction began on the main runway to widen it to 45 metres and extend it to 3,400 metres, allowing larger aircraft to use the field, alongside associated terminal and apron works. A long-delayed new passenger terminal, for which Airports of Regions won the construction contract in 2017, finally opened on 31 March 2025.
Yelizovo remains a mixed-use aerodrome, home to the 175th Independent Shipborne Anti-submarine Helicopter Squadron, the 317th Independent Composite Antisubmarine Aviation Regiment, an independent unmanned aerial vehicle squadron and the 865th Fighter Aviation Regiment, all part of the 7060th Naval Aviation Air Base; satellite imagery has shown dozens of MiG-31 interceptors dispersed around the airfield alongside numerous turboprop transports and helicopters. Civil operations are run by the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise, and the airport's long single runway and new terminal, opened in 2025, support scheduled airline services to and from the Kamchatka Peninsula.
