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Murmansk Airport lies at Murmashi in the southern suburbs of Murmansk, on Russia's Kola Peninsula, and today handles scheduled traffic for airlines such as Smartavia, Aeroflot and Pobeda. For a simulator pilot it offers a single long paved runway equipped with ILS on both directions, set against a landscape with a strong wartime aviation history.
Murmansk Airport (ICAO ULMM, IATA MMK), formally Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk Airport, is the international gateway for the city of Murmansk in Russia's far north. It sits near the town of Murmashi, about 24 kilometres from the Murmansk city centre, and functions as the airline hub for Smartavia alongside services from Aeroflot, Pobeda, Rossiya Airlines, Ikar and others. For a VFR or IFR sim pilot it is notable both for its single long, ILS-equipped runway and for a history rooted in Soviet-era air defence of the Kola Peninsula.
The airfield is located near Murmashi, in the southern suburbs of Murmansk, roughly 24 kilometres from the city centre, on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast. As a large civil airport handling scheduled international and domestic traffic, it sits within controlled airspace appropriate to its status as a hub airport in Russia's far northwest.
The airfield has one physical runway, 13/31, a hard-surfaced strip measuring approximately 8200 to 8201 feet in length. Both directions are lit and equipped with ILS, making the runway suitable for instrument approaches in either direction.
The tower frequency is 120.3 MHz, and meteorological information is broadcast on PMSV 127.4 MHz. Both runway ends are served by ILS, supporting instrument approaches to 13 and 31.
The airfield previously had military significance under the name Murmashi airfield. During the Soviet-Finnish War the Soviet 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment was based here, flying Polikarpov I-15bis, I-16 and I-153 aircraft. Following the German invasion of the USSR, the regiment used the airfield to cover Murmansk and the Kirov railway against German air raids, converting to MiG-3 fighters from July 1941 and later receiving Lend-Lease P-40 Tomahawks in January 1942. The regiment remained based at the field until the spring of 1945. In November 2015 the airport was bought by Novaport from its previous owner, Gazprom Oil, with the stated aim of developing low-cost services from Pobeda.
Murmansk Airport now operates as an international civil airport and serves as the hub for Smartavia, with scheduled services also flown by Aeroflot, Belavia, Ikar, Pobeda, Rossiya Airlines, Severstal Air Company and UVT Aero to destinations including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan and seasonal routes such as Minsk, Sochi, Petrozavodsk and Longyearbyen. The airport passed the one million passenger mark in 2019, reflecting substantial scheduled traffic through the field.
