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Kurumoch International Airport (UWWW) is the principal airport serving Samara and Tolyatti in Russia's Volga Federal District, located some 35 km north of Samara city. It is a major regional hub with two long, lit hard-surface runways and full ILS coverage, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for instrument or visual arrivals in the simulator.
Kurumoch International Airport lies north of Samara and serves both that city and Tolyatti, the region's second-largest city. It is operated as part of the Airports of Regions holding and is one of the busiest regional airports in Russia by passenger traffic, offering the simulator pilot a substantial airport experience with long paved runways, ILS approaches and a full range of air traffic services.
The airport sits in Samara Oblast, roughly 35 km north of the city of Samara, and takes its name from the nearby village of Kurumoch, about 7 km to the southwest. Traffic in the surrounding airspace is worked by Samara Approach and the Samara Krug (approach control) radar service, reflecting the airport's role as a significant hub within the Volga Federal District.
Kurumoch has two physical runways. Runway 15/33 is 9,857 ft long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with ILS on both directions. Runway 05/23 is 8,366 ft long, also hard-surfaced, lit, and equipped with ILS on both directions. Field elevation is 423 ft.
Pilots should expect to work Samara Approach on 124.6 MHz, with Samara Tower on 118.2 MHz and Samara Krug radar service on 128 MHz. Ground movement is handled on Samara Taxiing, 119 MHz, and pre-departure information is available on Samara ATIS, 134.1 MHz. Samara Transit operates on 131.6 MHz, and a VOLMET broadcast is available on 126.875 MHz. Both runways are served by ILS.
Construction of the airport began on 19 December 1957 under a Soviet Council of Ministers decree, overseen by N. P. Skrinsky, chairman of the Kuybyshev airport authority. It first became operational for military purposes on 30 July 1960, with an initial exercise involving thirteen Ilyushin Il-18s and seven Antonov An-10s, and was also used as a refuelling stop for short-range aircraft. The first commercial flight, to Sheremetyevo in Moscow, was flown on 27 February 1961 by V. A. Mikhailov, and the airport gained domestic passenger status on 15 May 1961 with a daily service to Mineralnye Vody, followed later that year by routes to Leningrad, Tashkent and Adler. Substantial expansion took place between 1965 and 1970, including a new maintenance hangar, a second runway, and other infrastructure, with the second runway entering commercial use in 1972 after endurance testing. The airport, then named Kuybyshev after the city's Soviet-era name, reached a peak of 3.7 million passengers in 1990. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the city's reversion to the name Samara, the airport gained international status in 1992 and a new international terminal was completed in 1993. On 31 May 2002 it was renamed Kurumoch International Airport, discarding its association with the Soviet revolutionary Valerian Kuybyshev in favour of the name of the nearby village. In 2011 the airport was acquired by Airports of Regions, Russia's largest airport holding company.
Kurumoch remains the largest airport by passenger traffic in the Volga Federal District, handling over 2.6 million passengers and nearly 13,000 departures to 43 destinations in 2017, along with substantial cargo throughput. It operates around the clock throughout the year. The field is equipped with ILS on both runways and a full suite of approach, tower, ground and radar frequencies, making it a capable and busy airport for simulator operations.