Airport in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Dushanbe International Airport (IATA :DYU ,ICAO :UTDD international airport inDushanbe , the capital ofTajikistan . It is the mainhub forSomon Air and is the home base forTajik Air , which also has itsheadquarters on the property.[ 2]
In 1924, the first airport was built in the country, in the city currently known as Dushanbe. In November 1929, a new airport was built to serve Stalinabad (past name of Dushanbe). In 1964, the current airport complex was put into operation. Over the years, the airport has been reconstructed several times.
On 7 September 1992, during the first months of theTajikistani Civil War ,President Rahmon Nabiyev and an entourage of his were on their way to the airport when they were ambushed byopposition forces . At the terminal, Nabiyev was forced to resign, practically at gunpoint, after a meeting and discussions with the armed opposition in the VIP lounge, before being released. Tanks and troops were reportedly stationed at the terminal during the whole ordeal.[ 3]
A newFrench -built terminal, which can serve 1.5 million passengers a year, was opened on 3 September 2014.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Airlines and destinations [ edit ] Airlines Destinations Azerbaijan Airlines Baku [ 7] Centrum Air Samarqand ,[ 8] Tashkent [ 9] China Southern Airlines Beijing–Daxing ,[ 10] Ürümqi ,[ 11] Xi'an [ 12] FlyArystan Astana [ 13] flydubai Dubai–International [ 14] [ 15] Jazeera Airways Kuwait City [ 16] Kish Airlines Seasonal charter: Kish (begins 28 November 2025)[ 17] Loong Air Xi'an [ 18] Nordwind Airlines Kazan ,Tyumen ,[ 19] Ufa Raimon Airways Mashhad (begins 19 November 2025)[ 17] Somon Air Almaty ,[ 20] Astana ,[ 21] Bishkek ,Delhi ,[ 22] Doha ,[ 23] Dubai–International ,Islamabad ,[ 24] Istanbul ,Jeddah ,[ 9] Kazan ,Khujand ,Krasnoyarsk–International ,[ 25] Makhachkala ,[ 26] Moscow–Domodedovo ,Moscow–Zhukovsky ,[ 26] Munich ,[ 27] Novosibirsk ,[ 28] Saint Petersburg ,Samara ,[ 26] Sochi ,[ 29] Tashkent ,[ 20] Tbilisi ,[ 30] Tehran–Imam Khomeini ,[ 9] Trabzon ,[ 27] Ürümqi ,Yekaterinburg Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh ,[ 31] Yerevan Tajik Air Khorog ,[ 32] Kulob ,[ 32] Panjakent ,[ 32] Rasht [ 33] Turkish Airlines Istanbul [ 34] Ural Airlines Irkutsk ,[ 35] Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo ,Moscow–Domodedovo ,Moscow–Zhukovsky ,Saint Petersburg ,Sochi ,[ 36] Utair Moscow–Vnukovo Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent [ 37] Varesh Airlines Mashhad ,[ 38] Tehran–Imam Khomeini [ 39]
Accidents and incidents [ edit ] On 10 April 2025, aBoeing 737-500 passenger aircraft operated byVaresh Airlines veered off the runway while landing at the airport from Tehran due to adverse weather conditions. No injuries were reported.[ 41]
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