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Cherepovets Airport (ULWC) is a regional airfield serving the industrial city of Cherepovets in Vologda Oblast, north-west Russia, home to the vast Severstal steelworks. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced runway equipped with an ILS, making it usable in a wide range of weather for a sim pilot flying into this part of the Volga-Baltic corridor.
Cherepovets Airport lies on the edge of the city of Cherepovets, the largest urban centre in Vologda Oblast and a major metallurgical and shipbuilding hub on the Volga-Baltic Waterway. The field is a medium-sized regional airport handling scheduled airline traffic under the ICAO code ULWC (IATA: CEE), and its single hard-surfaced runway, equipped with an instrument landing system, gives it useful all-weather capability for an aerodrome of its size. For the sim pilot it makes an interesting waypoint on a route through the industrial heartland between Moscow and St Petersburg, with the Sheksna River, the Rybinsk Reservoir and the sprawling Severstal steel plant all providing striking visual context on approach.
The airport sits in Vologda Oblast, close to the city of Cherepovets, which is situated at the confluence of the Sheksna and Yagorba Rivers and on the shores of the Rybinsk Reservoir, part of the Volga-Baltic Waterway. Cherepovets lies roughly midway between Moscow and St Petersburg, in the west of Vologda Oblast, with the city itself dominated by heavy industry along the riverbanks. The field's coordinates place it at 59.2761 N, 38.0189 E, at an elevation of 364 feet.
Cherepovets has a single physical runway, 03/21, of hard surface construction and 8222 feet in length. The runway is lit, and runway 21 is served by an instrument landing system, giving it a usable instrument approach from the north-east.
No air-ground or ATC communication frequencies are published for Cherepovets Airport. The field does have an instrument landing system serving runway 21, providing an instrument approach aid despite the absence of listed radio frequencies.
The city of Cherepovets and its surrounding industrial complex offer strong visual references for a pilot approaching the field. The Sheksna River, joined by the Yagorba at the historic centre of the city, and the wide expanse of the Rybinsk Reservoir to the north are prominent landmarks, as is the large Severstal steelworks that dominates the city's skyline and riverfront.
Cherepovets itself traces its origins to 1362, when the Orthodox monks Feodosy and Afanasy founded the Cherepovets Resurrection Monastery, around which the settlement of Fedosyevo grew into what is now the city centre. The city was granted formal status in 1777 by Catherine the Great, and its fortunes were transformed in the twentieth century by the construction of the large Cherepovets steel mill, now known as Severstal, completed in 1955 and one of the largest in the country. This rapid industrial growth, connecting the north and north-west of Russia by rail, road and waterway, established Cherepovets as a significant transport and manufacturing centre, the setting in which the airport serves the city today.
Cherepovets Airport is classified as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, operating under the ICAO identifier ULWC and IATA code CEE. Prior permission is required for visiting flights.