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Petrozavodsk Airport

Karelian: *Petroskoin Lendoazema*

Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск
Petrozavodsk Airport; Karelian: Petroskoin Lendoazema; Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск
	IATA: PES; ICAO: ULPB;
Summary
Airport type	Civil/military
Operator	Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia
Serves	Petrozavodsk
Location	Besovets, Republic of Karelia, Russia
Elevation AMSL	151 ft / 46 m
Coordinates	61°53′6″N 34°9′24″E / 61.88500°N 34.15667°E
Website	karelavia.ru
Map
	Petrozavodsk Shown within Republic of Karelia, Russia Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk (Russia)
Runways

Petrozavodsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск, Karelian: Petroskoin lendoazema, Finnish: Petroskoin lentoasema; (IATA: PES, ICAO: ULPB); ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.

The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s, Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s, it was home to the 991st Fighter Aviation Regiment (991 IAP), which flew Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat' aircraft. In 1992–93, the 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army.^[1] It now flies the Sukhoi Su-35S aircraft and is now part of the 105th Guards Mixed Aviation Division, 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.^[2]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Severstal Air Company	Cherepovets, Kaliningrad, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Sochi, Yekaterinburg

Accidents and incidents

On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of Runway 01 at Petrozavodsk Airport, while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.^[3]