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Abakan International Airport serves the city of Abakan, capital of the Republic of Khakassia in southern Siberia, and is the principal airport for the surrounding region and southern Krasnoyarsk Krai. It offers a long, ILS-equipped main runway capable of handling all aircraft types, making it a notable stop for a simulator pilot exploring Siberian aviation. The field sits close to the northern edge of the city, with scheduled passenger and cargo services connecting it to major Russian hubs.
Abakan International Airport is the main civil airport for Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia, and is described as the only airport in the Khakassia and southern Krasnoyarsk Krai region capable of handling all types of aircraft. It is operated as JSC Aeroport Abakan and handles both scheduled passenger and cargo traffic, making it a useful and characterful destination for a virtual pilot flying in southern Siberia.
The airport lies to the north of Abakan, just outside the city limits, in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia. It is the principal aerodrome for the region, serving as the gateway airport for both Khakassia and the southern part of Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Abakan has two physical runways. The main runway, 02/20, is a hard-surfaced, lit strip with an ILS, measuring 9181 ft when used as runway 02 and 8204 ft when used as runway 20. A shorter parallel runway, 02L/20R, is also hard-surfaced and lit, measuring 4252 ft in each direction, but is not equipped with an ILS. Field elevation is 823 ft.
Air traffic services at Abakan include Abakan Ground on 119 MHz, Tower on 122 MHz, Approach on 134.3 MHz, and a radar frequency of 120.6 MHz (ASR). ATIS broadcasts are available on 126.2 MHz. The main runway, 02/20, is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
Abakan Airport was established as an independent enterprise on 1 March 1993, having been separated from the Abakan Aviation Enterprise, a decision taken jointly by the Public Property Management Committee, the Transport Aviation Department and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Khakassia. Substantial preparatory work by the Transport Aviation Department and the regional government during this period led to the airport achieving international status. In 1996 the airport was reorganised as the Abakan Airport OJSK. The field won the "Best Airport of the CIS Countries" competition, organised by the Airport Association, in both 1999 and 2000. The airport's history has also included tragedy: on 7 March 1965 an Aeroflot Li-2 operating as Flight 542 to Kyzyl crashed shortly after takeoff, and on 27 November 1996 an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft crashed into a mountain near Minusinsk eight minutes after departing Abakan, with the loss of all 23 people on board after the aircraft, which was overloaded, climbed too slowly.
Abakan International Airport continues to operate scheduled passenger services, with airlines including Aeroflot, IrAero, KrasAvia, NordStar, Red Wings Airlines and S7 Airlines linking the field to destinations such as Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Norilsk and others, some seasonal. Cargo operators including Grizodubova Air Company and Volga-Dnepr also serve the airport, with connections to destinations such as Chelyabinsk, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shanghai-Pudong.