Tolmachevo Airport

For the urban locality in Leningrad Oblast, see Tolmachyovo.
Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport
Novosibirsk

Аэропорт Толмачёво
Summary
Airport typeMilitary / Public
OwnerRoman Trotsenko through Novaport
OperatorTolmachevo Airport (JSC)
ServesNovosibirsk
LocationOb, Russia
Hub forS7 Airlines
Elevation AMSL365 ft / 111 m
Coordinates55°00′45″N 82°39′02″E / 55.01250°N 82.65056°E / 55.01250; 82.65056
Websitewww.tolmachevo.ru
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OVB is located in Novosibirsk Oblast
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Location of airport in Novosibirsk Oblast
OVB is located in Russia
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OVB is located in Asia
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,600 11,801 Asphalt concrete
16/34 3,600 11,818 Concrete
Statistics (2020)
Passengers4,634,166
Passenger change 19–20Decrease31.3%
Aircraft movements30,770
Movements change 19–20Decrease7.3%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[1]
AIP of the Russian Federation,[2] Tolmachevo media centre*[3][4]

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Толмачёво) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is situated in the town of Ob, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the center of Novosibirsk, an industrial and scientific center in Siberia and Russia's third-largest city.

Overview

There are two (3,600 metres (11,800 ft) and 3,605 metres (11,827 ft)) active runways in Tolmachevo Airport, along with one large passenger terminal with two connected sections (Section A for domestic flights (25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft), 18 check-in desks, 2 jet bridges, capacity 1,800 passengers/hour,[5] and Section B for international flights (27,000 square metres (290,000 sq ft), 14 check-in desks, 3 jet bridges, capacity 1,300 passengers/hour),[6] 2 cargo terminals and 61 aircraft stands. Runway 16 is equipped with an ILS CAT II, which enables aircraft operations in low ceiling (30 metres) and visibility (350 metres).[7]

The airport is situated in the middle of the route from some important East-Asian cities (e.g. Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, etc.) to Europe which makes it attractive for cargo airlines to use it for refueling stops.[8] It serves also as a diversion airport on Polar route 1.[9][10]

Tolmachevo is the busiest airport in Siberia and the sixth-busiest airport in Russia.[11][12] It is also the busiest regional transit airport in Russia after Moscow MOW.[13] In 2020, the airport served 4,634,166 passengers (-31.3%)[4] and handled 34,158 tons of cargo (+0.05%).[4] Detailed data for years 2003–2020 is in the Traffic Statistics section below.

The Tolmachevo Airport is operated by Novaport since 2011.[14][15]

History

Operations began on July 12, 1957, with the first passenger flight of a Tupolev Tu-104 from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The airport was owned by United Tolmachevo Aviation Enterprise and the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR until 1992. The airport then became a joint stock company in 1995, with 51% owned by the state. The domestic terminal was completely renovated in 2006. Tolmachevo Airport is also the first Russian airport to receive an ISO 9002-96 certificate. On November 29, 2012, for the first time in its history, the airport received its three-millionth annual passenger.[16] During 2014-2015, the former international terminal was enlarged and merged with the domestic terminal which doubled its passenger capacity.[6] The airport celebrated its four-millionth annual passenger on December 21, 2016.[17] In the last hours of 2017, another milestone was reached: on December 31, 2017, the airport handled its five-millionth annual passenger.[18] On December 18, 2019, the airport celebrated its first 6.5-millionth annual passenger.[19]

Plans for its further development include construction of a new rapid-exit taxiway and 4 stands for wide-body aircraft,[20] On 15 September 2020 the airport commenced construction works of the new terminal. Work is being conducted by contractor Ant Yapı (Turkey). Construction of the 56,000 square meters terminal will be completed in the third quarter of 2022. Phase two work will be completed by 2025.[21] The total area of the airport terminal will be more than 100,000 square meters.[22]

The airport is also home to the 337th Independent Helicopter Regiment (previously called the 562nd Air Base (Army Aviation)) flying Mil Mi-24P's and Mil Mi-8AMTSh-V's[23] and the Composite Aviation Squadron, 32nd Independent Composite Transport Aviation Regiment, both as part of the 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[24]

Accidents and incidents

Main article: Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066
  • On 13 November 2020, an Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft operating Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066 suffered an uncontained engine failure on departure and was severely damaged. On landing back at Tolmachevo, the aircraft overran the runway and was further damaged when its nosewheels collapsed. All fourteen people on board survived.[25]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Bangkok–Suvarnahumi,[26] Khabarovsk, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Phuket,[27] Saint Petersburg, Sanya[28]
Seasonal: Antalya, Sochi
Alrosa Mirny, Moscow–Vnukovo, Udachny
Seasonal: Sochi
Aurora Khabarovsk
Avia Traffic Company Bishkek, Osh
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku[29]
Azur Air Seasonal charter: Colombo-Bandaranaike,[30] Hurghada, Pattaya,[30] Phuket[30]
FlyOne Armenia Yerevan (begins 31 March 2025)
flydubai Dubai–International
Georgian Airways Tbilisi[31]
Ikar Seasonal charter: Phuket, Sochi
IrAero Baku, Irkutsk, Kyzyl, Talakan
Myanmar Airways International Mandalay,[32] Yangon[33][34]
NordStar Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal: Saint Petersburg, Sochi
Pobeda Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[35] Moscow–Vnukovo
Seasonal: Sochi
Qazaq Air Astana,[36] Öskemen[36]
Red Wings Airlines Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala, Phuket,[37]
Rossiya Airlines Krasnoyarsk–International, Saint Petersburg
RusLine Moscow-Vnukovo
S7 Airlines[38] Abakan, Almaty,[39] Antalya,[40] Astana,[39] Baku,[41] Bangkok–Suvarnahumi,[42] Barnaul, Beijing–Daxing,[43] Bishkek, Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Dubai–Al Maktoum,[44] Dubai–International,[44] Dushanbe, Fergana, Gorno-Altaysk, Irkutsk, Istanbul,[45] Izhevsk, Kaliningrad,[46] Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Khujand, Krasnoyarsk–International, Kyzyl, Magadan, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Mirny, Moscow–Domodedovo, Nadym, Neryungri, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Osh, Öskemen, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Pevek, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Samarqand, Saratov,[47] Sochi, Surgut, Talakan, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan,[48] Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Seasonal: Tamchy-Issyk-Kul
SCAT Airlines Seasonal charter: Phu Quoc, Sihanoukville,[49] Taraz[49]
Smartavia Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Seasonal: Sochi
Somon Air Dushanbe
Utair Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut
UVT Aero Tobolsk,[50] Yekaterinburg
Uzbekistan Airways Fergana, Tashkent
Yakutia Airlines Moscow–Vnukovo, Neryungri, Yakutsk
Yamal Airlines Novy Urengoy, Salekhard

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Aviastar-TU Hangzhou[51][52]
Russian Post Harbin, Zhengzhou[53][54]

Statistics

The monument from Tupolev Tu-154M of S7 Airlines at Tolmachevo Airport
Tolmachevo Airport outside view of joint terminal (left - domestic section A, right - international section B) before construction of the new terminal in 2020
Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics[55][56][57][58][59][60][4]
Year (month) Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2021* 6,046,000 Increase 48.0% 715,000 Increase 31.0% 6,761,000 Increase 46.0%
2020 4,087,771 Decrease 16.6% 546,395 Decrease 70.4% 4,634,166 Decrease 31.3%
2019 4,903,212 Increase 14.5% 1,843,939 Increase 13.3% 6,747,151 Increase 14.2%
2018 4,281,799 Increase 20.6% 1,627,279 Increase 11.7% 5,909,078 Increase 18.0%
2017 3,550,375 Increase 17.7% 1,456,927 Increase 34.9% 5,007,302 Increase 22.2%
2016 3,017,226 Increase 16.0% 1,080,264 Decrease 2.0% 4,097,490 Increase 10.6%
2015 2,600,974 Increase 7.0% 1,102,237 Decrease 27.8% 3,703,211 Decrease 6.4%
2014 2,431,238 Increase 10.9% 1,526,429 Decrease 2.0% 3,957,667 Increase 5.6%
2013 2,191,304 Increase 8.7% 1,556,907 Increase 24.5% 3,748,211 Increase 14.7%
2012 2,015,767 Increase 13.7% 1,250,978 Increase 25.9% 3,266,745 Increase 18.1%
2011 1,772,566 Increase 12.5% 993,316 Increase 44.7% 2,765,884 Increase 22.3%
2010 1,575,185 Increase 15.3% 686,442 Increase 56.8% 2,261,630 Increase 25.3%
2009 1,366,500 Decrease 20.3% 437,800 Decrease 6.3% 1,804,297 Decrease 14.5%
2008 1,643,900 Increase 12.7% 465,500 Increase 12.4% 2,109,424 Increase 12.6%
2007 1,459,200 Increase 12.3% 414,300 Increase 16.0% 1,873,496 Increase 13.1%
2006 1,299,700 Increase 2.5% 357,200 Decrease 6.2% 1,656,901 Increase 0.5%
2005 1,268,500 Increase 5.7% 379,400 Increase 11.5% 1,647,940 Increase 7.0%
2004 1,199,500 Increase 11.7% 340,300 Increase 17.3% 1,539,777 Increase 12.9%
2003 1,073,900 Increase 12.7% 290,000 Increase 0.4% 1,363,952 Increase 9.9%

(*)Preliminary Data. Source: Tolmachevo media centre[61]

Busiest domestic routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[62][63]
Rank City Passengers Growth

2013/2012

1 Moscow 1,073,265 Increase5%
2 Saint Petersburg 152,068 Increase15%
3 Khabarovsk 122,150 Increase24%
4 Vladivostok 95,864 Increase15%
5 Yakutsk 69,555 Increase11%
6 Irkutsk 66,751 Increase69%
7 Yekaterinburg 44,091 Increase17%
8 Mirny 42,246 Increase4%
9 Surgut 38,006 Increase14%
10 Nizhnevartovsk 35,465 Decrease18%
Busiest international routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[62][63]
Rank City Country Passengers Growth

2013/2012

1 Bangkok  Thailand 215,408 Increase25%
2 Antalya  Turkey 143,906 Increase13%
3 Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan 100,635 Increase22%
4 Phuket  Thailand 93,134 Increase49%
5 Osh  Kyrgyzstan 80,041 Increase8%
6 Beijing  China 77,026 Decrease14%
7 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 50,564 Increase36%
8 Khujand  Tajikistan 47,645 Increase13%
9 Ürümqi  China 41,845 Decrease6%
10 Dushanbe  Tajikistan 41,470 Increase4%

Ground transportation

Public transportation to the city is provided by a number of bus routes, as well as by private and municipal taxis. Shuttle bus service runs also between the airport and the Ob railway station at the Trans-Siberian Railway - a stop for Elektrichka local commuter trains and some long-distance trains in the direction of Omsk.[64]

Since 1 June 2024 direct buses to Kuzbas' Mezhdurechensk with additional stops in Myski, Novokuznetsk, Belovo and Leninsk-Kuznetsky are available on daily basis.[65]

See also

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