Ugolny Airport ( Russian : Аэропорт Угольный ) (also Leninka , Ugolnyye Kopi , Ugolnoye ) ( IATA : DYR , ICAO : UHMA ) is a mixed-use military and civil airfield in the Russian Far East located 11 km east of Anadyr , separated from the town by the waters of Anadyrsky Liman . The airfield was originally constructed in the 1950s as a staging base for Long Range Aviation bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-22M . During the Cold War years it became the primary hub for civilian flights in the Chukotka region.
7-697: In May 2019, the airport was named in honor of the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu . The Soviet-built Ilyushin Il-62 was a workhorse of the route from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Anadyr for many decades. There is occasional charter aircraft service from Nome, Alaska , to Anadyr. Anadyr was featured in the American novel Flight of the Old Dog . In 2018, 102,806 passengers passed through this airport. On 3 January 2020, United States pilot Matt Guthmiller posted
14-481: A video of his experience entering the Chukotka Autonomous region and landing at DYR without the correct documentation. Owing to its geographic location, its long, concrete-reinforced, heavy load-bearing runway, as well as its modern terminal with jet bridges , the airport is well-suited and well-situated for emergency diversion at roughly the midpoint of the northern trans-Pacific routes. The airport
21-515: Is located on the opposite site of the Anadyr River from the city. Transport by summer is by boat, by winter by a road on the ice, and for a period in spring and fall, only by helicopter. The helicopter ticket was (in 2015) 3,680 rubles ($ 60). Anadyr was one of nine Arctic staging bases (in Russian, "bounce aerodrome") for long range bombers. The Russian Air Force's OGA (Arctic Control Group)
28-503: Is responsible for upkeep of the facilities. Anadyr has also been a prominent base for Soviet Air Defence Forces due to its close proximity to Alaskan airspace. The 529th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO, flying the Yakovlev Yak-28P (Firebar) interceptor, was stationed at Anadyr starting in the 1960s, along with S-75 (SA-2) surface-to-air missile installations of the 762nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment. The PVO units were under
35-582: The Yak-28s were replaced with 20 Sukhoi Su-15TM (Flagon) as part of a force upgrade. The Su-15 were flown by the 171st Fighter Aviation Regiment which was transferred from Bombora airfield, Gudauta , in the Abkhazian ASSR of the Georgian SSR , while the 529th transferred to Gudauta. The interceptor regiment was disbanded in 1993. Fighter aircraft are no longer based permanently at Anadyr, and
42-650: The control of the 25th Air Defense Division of the 11th Separate Air Defense Army , responsible for air defense on the Chukotka Peninsula. An R-14 Chusovaya (SS-5 Skean) medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) complex of the 83rd Separate Missile Regiment of the Strategic Missile Forces , which targeted American military installations in Alaska, was located 13 km (8 miles) northeast of Ugolny airfield from 1962 to 1969. In September 1982,
49-557: The region was overflown daily by foreign aircraft on the Asian polar route before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Temporary military deployments are common, however. In 2001, the airfield was visited by Tupolev Tu-95 MS and Ilyushin Il-78 aircraft on exercise from Engels air base . In 2014, Russia announced plans to deploy MiG-31 interceptors at the airport. Chukchi people Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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