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Kazan International Airport, known since 2019 as Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International Airport, is a major international gateway serving the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, lying some 25 km southeast of the city centre. It is the busiest airport in Tatarstan and the Volga Federal District, handling a substantial mix of domestic and international scheduled and charter traffic, and offers a simulator pilot a long, well-equipped set of parallel runways with full instrument approach capability.
Kazan International Airport is the principal air gateway for the city of Kazan and the wider Republic of Tatarstan, situated in the Volga Federal District of Russia. It operates as a large international airport, currently a hub for UVT Aero, and handles a broad range of domestic and international scheduled and charter services. For the simulator pilot, the field is notable for its pair of very long parallel hard-surfaced runways and its status as one of the busiest airports in Russia and the wider post-Soviet region.
The airport lies around 25 km southeast of the city of Kazan, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It sits at coordinates 55.6069N, 49.2803E, within Russian controlled airspace serving a large regional hub.
Kazan International Airport has two physical runway pairs. The main runway, 11/29, is a hard-surfaced strip of roughly 12,236 to 12,237 feet in length and is equipped with an ILS. A second, parallel hard-surfaced runway, 11L/29R, runs between approximately 11,343 and 12,174 feet in length and is lit, though it is not listed as ILS-equipped. Field elevation is 377 feet.
Published frequencies for the airport include an ATIS on 126.8 MHz, Ground on 121.7 MHz, a taxiing radar service on 119.4 MHz, and Tower on 120.3 MHz. The main runway, 11/29, is served by an ILS approach.
The present airport, referred to historically as Kazan 2, was completed on 15 September 1979. The older city-centre airport, Kazan 1, was closed on 28 September 1984, at which point Kazan 2 was renamed Kazan Domestic Airport. International status followed on 21 February 1986, a significant step given how rarely the Soviet authorities permitted international departures at the time. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tatarstan separated from the unified Aeroflot structure and established Tatarstan Airlines, which operated for 22 years before its licence was terminated at the end of 2013. The airport's first international scheduled route, Kazan to Istanbul and back, began on 26 October 1992 and has remained operated by Turkish Airlines ever since, historically the airport's most popular international service. A major redevelopment programme was launched after Kazan won the bid to host the 2013 Summer Universiade: a new 3,700-metre runway was built and edge lighting was added to both runways, allowing round-the-clock operations. Terminal 1A opened on 7 November 2012, and the renovation of the original Terminal 1 was completed on 22 June 2013, ahead of further expansion for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The airport was renamed in 2019 to honour the Tatar poet, critic and publisher Ğabdulla Tuqay.
Kazan International Airport today functions as a major hub, serving as a base for UVT Aero and handling scheduled and charter flights to a wide range of domestic Russian and international destinations, including services operated by carriers such as Aeroflot, Belavia, Flydubai, China Eastern Airlines and Turkish Airlines. It has been recognised in Skytrax Airport Awards judging and was rated among the leading airports in Russia and the CIS. The airport is designed to operate on a 24-hour basis year-round, reflecting the runway lighting improvements made during its redevelopment.