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Talagi Airport (ULAA/ARH) is the principal international airport serving Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, sited some 11 kilometres from the city centre. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced, lit runway with ILS approaches and has a mixed civil and military history stretching back to the Second World War.
Talagi Airport lies about 11 kilometres outside Arkhangelsk, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, and is the region's main international gateway, serving as a hub for the airline Smartavia. It shares its location with a military presence, being home to the 89th Independent Aviation Squadron, which operates Antonov An-26 transports and Mil Mi-8MTV-5 helicopters as part of the 45th Air and Air Defence Forces Army. For a visiting simulator pilot, the field is notable for its single very long instrument runway and its layered history as both a Cold War fighter base and a busy modern civil airport.
The airport sits in Arkhangelsk Oblast, close to the city of Arkhangelsk, with a smaller regional field, Vaskovo Airport, also serving the area. Arrivals and departures are handled by Arkhangelsk approach control and tower.
Talagi has a single physical runway, 08/26, of 8,154 feet in length with a hard surface. It is lit and equipped with an ILS, making it suitable for instrument approaches in the demanding weather conditions typical of this high-latitude location.
Pilots can expect to work Arkhangelsk Approach on 122 MHz and Arkhangelsk Tower on 121.8 MHz, with the field's ATIS broadcast on 126.675 MHz. The runway is served by an ILS, supporting instrument approaches to runway 08/26.
The airfield's origins lie in the summer of 1942, when it was built as a military base with a gravel runway under the supervision of State Defense Committee representative Ivan Papanin. During the Cold War it hosted the Soviet Air Defence Forces' 518th Fighter Aviation Regiment, which flew the Tupolev Tu-128 from 1966 and later received the MiG-31 during the 1980s; the regiment came under the 23rd, then 22nd, Air Defence Corps before being disbanded in 1998. The civil airport itself was founded on 5 February 1963, and the site takes its name, Talagi, from two small hamlets that once stood in Solombalsky Volost, Arkhangelsk Uyezd. Passenger traffic peaked in 1990 at 952,457 passengers, and the airport recorded 105,797 passengers and 921 tonnes of cargo in 2001.
Talagi remains Arkhangelsk's main international airport and serves as a hub for Smartavia, with other carriers including Aeroflot, Rossiya, Severstal Air Company, Arktika Airlines, Ikar, Azur Air and Southwind Airlines operating scheduled and seasonal charter services to destinations such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Naryan-Mar, Murmansk, Cherepovets, Kazan and, seasonally, Antalya. The airport continues to share its site with military aviation, hosting the 89th Independent Aviation Squadron and its An-26 and Mi-8MTV-5 aircraft.