Orenburg Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Оренбург) (IATA: REN, ICAO: UWOO) is a civil airport located about 25 km east of Orenburg city. Now defunct Orenair had its head office on the airport property.[2]
Yuri Gagarin Orenburg International Airport Международный Аэропорт Оренбург имени Юрия Гагарина | |||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Rossiya Airlines | ||||||||||
| Serves | Orenburg | ||||||||||
| Location | Orenburg, Russia | ||||||||||
| Hub for | Orenburzhye | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 387 ft / 118 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°47′44.83″N 55°27′24.28″E / 51.7957861°N 55.4567444°E | ||||||||||
| Website | oren.aero | ||||||||||
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  REN Location of airport in Orenburg Oblast | |||||||||||
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Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1] | |||||||||||
The airport was built at its present location in the mid-1970s. In 2011, the government of Orenburg named the airport after Yuri Gagarin.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo Seasonal: Sochi |
| Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise | Irkutsk,[3] Moscow-Vnukovo[3] |
| Ikar | Mineralnye Vody, Sochi |
| KrasAvia | Ufa[4] |
| Nordwind Airlines | Dushanbe, Kaliningrad,[5] Khujand,[6] Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg |
| Red Wings Airlines | Yekaterinburg[7] |
| Rossiya Airlines | Saint Petersburg |
| S7 Airlines | Novosibirsk |
| Shirak Avia | Seasonal: Yerevan (resumes 16 July 2024)[8] |
| Smartavia | Seasonal: Saint Petersburg,[9] Sochi[10] |
| Southwind Airlines | Seasonal charter: Antalya[11] |
| UVT Aero | Nizhny Novgorod,[12] Kazan |
Incidents and accidents
- On 1 March 1980, an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154A crashed on approach to the airport after deviating below a sufficient flight path and touching ground 68 meters before the runway. There were no fatalities, however the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.[13]
References
External links
- Official website (in English and Russian)
