Amderma Airport

Amderma
Амдерма

IATA: AMV – ICAO: ULDD

Summary

Airport type

public/military

Operator

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Airport Amderma"

Serves

Amderma

Location

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Elevation AMSL

13 ft / 4 m

Coordinates

69°45′48″N 61°33′48″E / 69.76333°N 61.56333°ECoordinates: 69°45′48″N 61°33′48″E / 69.76333°N 61.56333°E

Map

AMV

Location of airport in Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08/26	8,530	2,600	reinforced concrete

Amderma Airport (IATA: AMV, ICAO: ULDD) is a former interceptor base in Arctic Russia, near Novaya Zemlya, located 4 km west of Amderma (Амдерма). It is a simple airfield built on a spit along the ocean, with some tarmac space. Nordavia operates twice-monthly flights to Arkhangelsk via Naryan-Mar using Antonov An-24 aircraft.^[1]

The facility's prime purpose was to defend the northern approaches to European Russia. Amderma's significance was driven home during the Cold War years when on 1 June 1960 a MiG-19 from Amderma shot down a Boeing RB-47H that was crossing Cape Kanin Nos. Since the 1960s the airfield has been home to the 72 Gv IAP (72 Guards Interceptor Aviation Regiment) of the 10th OA PVO, which was operating at least 31 MiG-31 aircraft during the 1991-94 period.^[2] The Tupolev Tu-128 and MiG-19 were stationed here in the 1960s.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Nordavia	Naryan-Mar

References

↑ Nordavia timetable
↑ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.
↑ "Mezhdunarodniy Proekt Dmitriy Smirnova". Army.lv.

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

Airports built in the Soviet Union

Military

Active	Borisoglebskoye Airfield Burevestnik Dzyomgi Kirovsk-Apatity Klyuchi Air Base Kondinskoye Levashovo Magdagachi Poltava Air Base Pugachev Air Base Rzhev Air Base Samara Kryazh Saratov West Air Base Tatishchevo Air Base Tiksi West Airfield Tilichiki Tushino Airfield Uka Yaroslavl Levtsovo Yevpatoria Yugorsk Sovetsky

Defunct	Baherove Air Base Bakharevka Jonava Lenino Saratov South Air Base Smirnykh Air Base Tiksi Vetrovoye Air Base

Civilian

Active

International

Defunct

International	Donetsk

Joint Use

Active

International	Baikal Manas Odessa Perm Zhukovsky Sevastopol

Defunct

Pskov

Other

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