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Golden Ring Yaroslavl International Airport Международный аэропорт Ярославля Золотое кольцо | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Yaroslavl Oblast Government | ||||||||||
| Operator | Aerofuels Group Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Yaroslavl | ||||||||||
| Location | Tunoshna,Russia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+3[1] ({{{utc}}}) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 285 ft / 87 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 57°33′38.40″N40°9′26.53″E / 57.5606667°N 40.1573694°E /57.5606667; 40.1573694 | ||||||||||
| Website | iaravia.ru | ||||||||||
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Golden Ring Yaroslavl International Airport (Russian:Международный аэропорт Ярославля Золотое кольцо) (IATA:IAR,ICAO:UUDL) is an airport inYaroslavl Oblast,Russia, located 18 km southeast ofYaroslavl. It is served by medium-sized airliners. The airport is situated next to theVolga River. Formely known as Tunoshna Airport.[2]
During theCold War Tunoshna was a keyinterceptor aircraft base. It was home to 415th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (415 IAP),3rd Air Defence Corps,Moscow Air Defence District. The regiment arrived at Tunoshna from Audun in China in March 1953.[3] The regiment flew the MiG-15, then the MiG-17F, and then theSukhoi Su-9 (Fishpot) in the 1960s.[4] The regiment replaced it in 1979 with theMiG-23P (Flogger-G).[4] This aircraft served at Tunoshna during the 1980s and 1990s.[5] The 415 IAP was decommissioned in 1994[citation needed] and the MiG-23s were sent toRzhev.
On July 18, 2025 Airport was officially renamed as Golden Ring Yaroslavl International Airport in order to promoteYaroslavl andYaroslavl Oblast as a principal tourist destinations in theGolden Ring of Russia.[2]
The passenger terminal (with an area of 1000 m2) is designed to handle 180 domestic or 100 international passengers per hour. The cargo terminal (with an area of 833 m2) is designed to handle up to 150 tonnes of cargo per day. The airport complex entered service in 2002 and was reconstructed in 2013.
As of July 2025 airport serves following destinations:[6]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| azimuth | Samara,Sochi |
| Red Wings Airlines | Saint Petersburg |
| RusLine | Moscow–Vnukovo,[7]Perm,Saint Petersburg[8] |
| UVT Aero | Kazan (resumes 4 October 2025)[9] |
On 6 September 1994, the MiG-23UB crashed into terrain due to loss of control.
On 7 September 2011, the2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred, killing nearly the entireLokomotiv YaroslavlKontinental Hockey League professional ice hockey team. AYak-ServiceYak-42, carrying the team to a game inMinsk, Belarus crashed on take-off from Tunoshna, killing 44 of the 45 occupants.[10][11] The plane crashed and broke up approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the end of the runway, at theVolga River. The cause was determined to be pilot error, when one of the two pilots incorrectly applied braking during takeoff, attributed to a lack of training in the aircraft.
