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Yuzhno-Kurilsk Mendeleyevo Airport serves the remote town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands chain and a territory whose sovereignty is disputed between Russia and Japan. It is a small, single-runway field offering the only scheduled air link for the island, making it a striking and isolated destination for the simulator pilot seeking a genuinely remote North Pacific flight.
Yuzhno-Kurilsk Mendeleyevo Airport is a small public airfield on Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, serving the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk. The island lies under Russian administration but is claimed by Japan, giving the field an unusual geopolitical character. For a simulator pilot it offers a remote, single-runway approach over rugged volcanic island terrain with a long stretch of open North Pacific water on the approach, and it is the only airport connecting the island to the outside world.
The airfield sits on Kunashir Island, part of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, at coordinates 43.9611 N, 145.685 E and an elevation of 659 feet. It lies immediately adjacent to the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, which it serves, in a remote and sparsely populated part of the Kuril Islands chain between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean.
The field has a single physical runway, 01/19, aligned roughly north-south, of 6726 feet with a hard surface. Runway 01 is equipped with an ILS, while runway 19 has no instrument approach aid listed.
Runway 01 is served by an ILS, but no communications frequencies or radio callsign for the airport are published, so pilots should treat this as a field without confirmed ATC or A/G frequency data.
Kunashir Island, on which the airfield stands, is part of the Kuril Islands group under Russian administration since the end of the Second World War, though sovereignty over the southern Kurils, including Kunashir, is claimed by Japan. The airport has developed as the sole air gateway for the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, reflecting the island's isolation and its reliance on air transport for connection to the rest of Sakhalin Oblast.
The airport continues to provide the principal scheduled air service for Yuzhno-Kurilsk, with Aurora Airlines operating flights to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It functions as a small public airport supporting this single domestic route rather than any wider network of destinations.