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Roshchino International Airport, named after the chemist D. I. Mendeleev, serves the West Siberian city of Tyumen and stands as a hub for Utair and Yamal Airlines. It sits some 13 km west of the city centre and offers two long, ILS-equipped hard runways capable of handling everything from regional turboprops to widebody jets. For a simulator pilot it is a good example of a busy Russian regional hub with full instrument approach facilities.
Roshchino International Airport lies in Tyumen Oblast in western Siberia and is the principal airport serving the city of Tyumen. It operates as a large public airport and is a hub base for Utair and Yamal Airlines, with a route network reaching across Russia and to destinations such as Baku, Dubai, Tashkent and Yerevan. Its scale, twin long runways and full ILS coverage make it an interesting destination for simulator pilots wanting to fly heavier regional and mainline jet types into a Siberian hub.
The airport is located in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, about 13 km west of the city of Tyumen, at an elevation of 341 feet. It is a large public airport handling scheduled airline traffic, and its approach and area control are provided by Tyumen air traffic services as reflected in the published frequencies.
Roshchino has two physical runways. Runway 03/21 is a hard-surfaced strip 9,792 feet long, lit, and equipped with an ILS. Runway 12/30 is a hard-surfaced strip 8,812 feet long and lit, with an ILS serving the approach to runway 30.
Traffic is worked on Tyumen Approach on 126.1 MHz, with Tyumen ATIS broadcasting on 121.7 MHz. Ground movement is handled by Tyumen Taxiing on 119 MHz, radar service is provided by Tyumen Krug on 120.4 MHz, and the tower position, Tyumen Start, operates on 118.2 MHz. Both main runway ends offer ILS approaches, supporting instrument arrivals in the often poor Siberian winter weather.
The airport was developed to meet the rapidly growing demands of the Tyumen Oblast oil industry, which required a field capable of receiving heavy transport types such as the An-22 and An-12 for moving goods to the north of the region, alongside An-24 passenger services. On 15 May 1968 the Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR ordered the creation of the second Tyumen Joint Air Squad, and with the commissioning of Roshchino the capacity of Tyumen's air gates increased significantly; the Li-2 and An-24 squadrons were relocated here from the older Plekhanovo airfield. A hotel, the Liner Hotel, was built nearby in 1971, and the Tyumen Civil Aviation Administration was later awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. A maintenance and repair hangar entered service in 1978. The airport was reorganised as the open joint-stock company Roshchino Airport on 10 July 1997, with the terminal renovated in 1998 and the lighting system replaced in 2002. Runway No. 1 was reconstructed and an international terminal opened in 2004, followed by the reconstruction of runway No. 2 in 2005. The Novaport airport holding acquired full ownership of the company in 2014, the same year an overhaul of runway No. 2 and its taxiways was completed. On 27 January 2015 Roshchino became the first airport in Russia to receive aircraft using GPS/GLONASS satellite navigation guidance. The old terminal building was demolished in 2014 to make way for a new passenger terminal complex, with the airport operating on a temporary scheme in the interim. On 2 April 2012, UTair Flight 120 crashed shortly after take-off from Roshchino, with 33 fatalities among the 43 people on board.
Roshchino continues to operate as a major regional and international hub, serving as a base for Utair and Yamal Airlines and hosting services from Aeroflot, Rossiya, S7 Airlines, Pobeda, Nordwind, Red Wings and several charter and cargo operators. Destinations reach across Russia to cities including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk, together with international routes to Baku, Dubai, Tashkent, Yerevan and seasonal leisure charters to destinations such as Antalya and Sharm El Sheikh. The airport has undergone substantial redevelopment of its terminal facilities and satellite navigation infrastructure in recent years, reflecting its role as one of the more significant civil aviation gateways in West Siberia.