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Talagi Airport Аэропорт Архангельск (Тала́ги) имени Ф.А. Абрамова | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Federal Agency for State Property Management (51%)[1] | ||||||||||
| Operator | JSC "Arkhangelsk Airport" | ||||||||||
| Serves | Arkhangelsk | ||||||||||
| Location | Arkhangelsk,Arkhangelsk Oblast,Russia | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 62 ft / 19 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 64°36′0″N40°43′0″E / 64.60000°N 40.71667°E /64.60000; 40.71667 | ||||||||||
| Website | arhaero.ru | ||||||||||
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| Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[2] | |||||||||||
Talagi Airport (Russian:Аэропорт Архангельск (Тала́ги) имени Ф.А. Абрамова) (IATA:ARH,ICAO:ULAA) is an international airport servingArkhangelsk,Russia, located 11 kilometers outside the city. In 2001, it had 105,797 passengers and 921tonnes ofcargo. The airport was founded on February 5, 1963. It had an operational peak in 1990 with 952,457 passengers.
Talagi Airport serves as anairline hub forSmartavia.
The airport is home to the89th Independent Aviation Squadron which uses theAntonov An-26 (ASCC: Curl) andMil Mi-8MTV-5 (ASCC: Hip) as part of the45th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[3]
The name Talagi originates in twokhutors and smallvillage located in Solombalsky Volost, Arkhangelsk Uyezd,Arkhangelsk Governorate.[4]
Talagi Airport was originally built in the summer of 1942 under the supervision of the State Defense Committee representative Ivan Papanin as a military base with a gravel runway.
TheSoviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) had a presence at this airfield with518th Fighter Aviation Regiment (518-й Берлинский ордена Суворова III степени истребительный авиационный полк (Military Unit Number 42192), 518 IAP) flyingTupolev Tu-128 from 1966 onward. It receivedMiG-31 aircraft during the 1980s.[5][6] The controlling formation was the 23rd Air Defence Corps, then redesignated the 22nd Air Defence Corps in 1993, then 22nd AD Division from 1994, all under 10th Air Defence Army until 1994, and then6th Air Defence Army. The regiment was disbanded in 1998.[7]
