Tolmachevo Airport

For the urban locality in Leningrad Oblast, see Tolmachyovo.

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport Novosibirsk Аэропорт Толмачёво
IATA: OVB ICAO: UNNT LID: ТЛЧ
Summary
Airport type	Military / Public
Owner	Roman Trotsenko through Novaport
Operator	Tolmachevo Airport (JSC)
Serves	Novosibirsk
Location	Ob, Russia
Hub for	Angara Airlines Cargolux Lufthansa Cargo NordStar S7 Airlines
Elevation  AMSL	365 ft / 111 m
Coordinates	55°00′45″N082°39′02″E / 55.01250°N 82.65056°E / 55.01250; 82.65056
Website	www.tolmachevo.ru
Map
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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)
Passengers 4,634,166 Passenger change 19–20 31.3% Aircraft movements 30,770 Movements change 19–20 7.3%
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

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Bangkok–Suvarnahumi, [26] Dubai–Al Maktoum (begins 31 October 2023), [27] Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Phuket [28]
Aero Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar [29]
Aero Nomad Airlines	Osh [30]
Alrosa	Lensk, Mirny, Moscow–Vnukovo, Udachny
Aurora	Khabarovsk
Avia Traffic Company	Bishkek, Osh
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku [31] [32]
Azur Air	Seasonal charter: Antalya, Cairo, Colombo
flydubai	Dubai–International
I-Fly	Seasonal charter: Hurghada
Ikar	Seasonal charter: Phuket, Sochi
IrAero	Andizhan, Baku, Irkutsk, Kyzyl, Tashkent
KrasAvia	Kyzyl
Myanmar Airways International	Mandalay, [33] Yangon [34]
NordStar	Irkutsk, Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines	Sochi
Pegasus Airlines	Antalya
Pobeda	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, [35] Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg Seasonal: Sochi
Qazaq Air	Astana, Oskemen
Red Wings Airlines	Seasonal charter: Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh
Rossiya	Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines [36]	Abakan, Anadyr, [37] Antalya, [38] Astana, Barnaul, Beijing–Daxing, [39] Bishkek, Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Dubai–Al Maktoum (begins 1 November 2023), [40] Dubai–International, [40] Dushanbe, Fergana, Gorno-Altaysk, Grozny, Igarka, Irkutsk, Istanbul, [41] Izhevsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Khujand, Krasnoyarsk–International, Magadan, Magnitogorsk, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Mirny, Moscow–Domodedovo, Nadym, Neryungri, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Osh, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Polyarny, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Samarkand, Saratov, Sochi, Surgut, Talakan, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka, Ürümqi, [42] Vladivostok, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, [43] Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Shirak Avia	Yerevan
Smartavia	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Somon Air	Dushanbe, Khujand
Southwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
Ural Airlines	Dushanbe, Harbin (resumes 28 November 2023), [44] Moscow–Domodedovo, Vientiane (begins 29 October 2023) [45]
Utair	Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut
Uzbekistan Airways	Fergana, Tashkent
Yakutia Airlines	Moscow–Vnukovo, Neryungri, Sochi, Yakutsk
Yamal Airlines	Novy Urengoy, Salekhard

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Aviastar-TU	Hangzhou [46] [47]
Russian Post	Harbin, Zhengzhou [48] [49]

Statistics

Countries with flight destinations from the Novosibirsk Airport

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 ^{[50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [4]}

Year (month)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2021*	6,046,000	48%	715,000	31%	6,761,000	46%
2020	4,087,771	16.6%	546,395	70.4%	4,634,166	31.3%
2019	4,903,212	14.5%	1,843,939	13.3%	6,747,151	14.2%
2018	4,281,799	20.6%	1,627,279	11.7%	5,909,078	18.0%
2017	3,550,375	17.7%	1,456,927	34.9%	5,007,302	22.2%
2016	3,017,226	16.0%	1,080,264	2.0%	4,097,490	10.6%
2015	2,600,974	7.0%	1,102,237	27.8%	3,703,211	6.4%
2014	2,431,238	10.9%	1,526,429	2.0%	3,957,667	5.6%
2013	2,191,304	8.7%	1,556,907	24.5%	3,748,211	14.7%
2012	2,015,767	13.7%	1,250,978	25.9%	3,266,745	18.1%
2011	1,772,566	12.5%	993,316	44.7%	2,765,884	22.3%
2010	1,575,185	15.3%	686,442	56.8%	2,261,630	25.3%
2009	1,366,500	20.3%	437,800	6.3%	1,804,297	14.5%
2008	1,643,900	12.7%	465,500	12.4%	2,109,424	12.6%
2007	1,459,200	12.3%	414,300	16.0%	1,873,496	13.1%
2006	1,299,700	2.5%	357,200	6.2%	1,656,901	0.5%
2005	1,268,500	5.7%	379,400	11.5%	1,647,940	7.0%
2004	1,199,500	11.7%	340,300	17.3%	1,539,777	12.9%
2003	1,073,900	12.7%	290,000	0.4%	1,363,952	9.9%

(*)Preliminary Data. Source: Tolmachevo media centre ^[56]

Busiest domestic routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013) [57] [58] Rank City Passengers Growth 2013/2012 1 Moscow 1,073,265 5% 2 Saint Petersburg 152,068 15% 3 Khabarovsk 122,150 24% 4 Vladivostok 95,864 15% 5 Yakutsk 69,555 11% 6 Irkutsk 66,751 69% 7 Yekaterinburg 44,091 17% 8 Mirny 42,246 4% 9 Surgut 38,006 14% 10 Nizhnevartovsk 35,465 18%

Busiest international routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013) [57] [58] Rank City Country Passengers Growth 2013/2012 1 Bangkok   Thailand 215,408 25% 2 Antalya   Turkey 143,906 13% 3 Bishkek   Kyrgyzstan 100,635 22% 4 Phuket   Thailand 93,134 49% 5 Osh   Kyrgyzstan 80,041 8% 6 Beijing   China 77,026 14% 7 Dubai   United Arab Emirates 50,564 36% 8 Khujand   Tajikistan 47,645 13% 9 Ürümqi   China 41,845 6% 10 Dushanbe   Tajikistan 41,470 4%

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. ^[59]

See also

• Siberia portal

• Novosibirsk Elitsovka Airport
• Novosibirsk Severny Airport
• List of the busiest airports in Russia
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR

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Other sources

• Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport at Russian Airports Database

External links

Media related to Tolmachevo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Tolmachevo Airport Official website (in Chinese, English, and Russian)
• Accident history for OVB at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for UNNT at NOAA / NWS
• Historical Weather Records for Novosibirsk