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Exploring Russia's Rural Airports

From this airport, commercial trips by helicopter are made to prearranged wilderness destinations. Hunters are a chief customer at the Seymchan Airport in the Magadan region. Fire and Rescue Center of Magadan Region / mpsc.ru
Ossora Airport, Kamchatka region. photogoroda.com / superparty
During winter months the Turukhansk Airport in the Krasnoyarsk region is the only means of communication with the outside world. jxandreani / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
This airport has regular service to Yakutsk and a charter service to Irkutsk. There are four flights a day: two departures and two arrivals. Nyurba Airport, Yakutia. mapio.net / Vorobiyov Andrei
Belozyorsk Airport, Vologodsky District. aviaforum.ru / starik
The Krasnoselkup airport in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district provides regular flights to Novy Urengoy, Tarko-Sale and the region’s most remote villages. Passenger flow: 14 thousand per year. Krasnoselkup, Yamal-Nenets autonomous district. polet.me
The Khatanga Airport in the Krasnoyarsk region services medium-sized aircraft. Wikicommons

Outside of Russia’s sprawling cosmopolitan cities, things look a little different. These airports from the most secluded corners of the country connect the rural with the modern, one regional hub to another. They’re no Sheremetyevo, but these airports have a character of their own.


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