Orsk Airport Аэропорт Орск | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | FSUE "Orenburg Airlines" | ||||||||||
| Serves | Orsk | ||||||||||
| Location | Orsk,Russia | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1958 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 909 ft / 277 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°4′18″N58°35′48″E / 51.07167°N 58.59667°E /51.07167; 58.59667 | ||||||||||
| Website | http://aviaorsk.ru | ||||||||||
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  OSW Location of airport in Orenburg Oblast | |||||||||||
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Orsk Airport (Russian:Аэропорт Орск) (IATA:OSW,ICAO:UWOR) is an international airport[1] inRussia located 16 km (10 mi) south ofOrsk. It services medium-sized airliners. The terminal building is located around 3 km from theborder toKazakhstan, with some equipment located in Kazakhstan.[citation needed]
The airport was established in 1958.[2]
On 9 April 1960 this was a refueling stop forMikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 fighter jets fromSverdlovsk attempting to intercept one ofGary Powers'U-2 flights, however one of the MiG-19s crashed on approach to Orsk.[3]
The modern airport building was built in 1982 and the modern artificial runway was laid in 1987.[2]
The airport was the destination ofSaratov Airlines Flight 703, which crashed killing 71 people in February 2018.[4]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo[5] |
| Ikar | Saint Petersburg Seasonal:Sochi[6] |
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