Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport
Аэропорт Храброво

IATA: KGD – ICAO: UMKK

Summary

Airport type

Public/Military

Serves

Kaliningrad

Location

Kaliningrad, Russia

Elevation AMSL

42 ft / 13 m

Coordinates

54°53′24″N 20°35′33″E / 54.89000°N 20.59250°ECoordinates: 54°53′24″N 20°35′33″E / 54.89000°N 20.59250°E

Website

kgd.aero

Map

KGD

Location of airport in Kaliningrad

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06/24	8,202	2,500	Concrete

Statistics (2014)

Passengers	1,460,054

Khrabrovo Airport (Russian Аэропорт Храброво) (IATA: KGD, ICAO: UMKK) is the airport of Kaliningrad, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) north of the city near the village of Khrabrovo. While it mostly serves scheduled domestic destinations, part of it is still a military base of the Russian Air Force.

History

1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft starts flights on first scheduled international route, from Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow
1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline
1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin
1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo
1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad
1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity
1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased
1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership
2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment
2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia”
2007 - opening of the new terminal
2009 - "KD Avia" airlines cease operations

Airlines and destinations

The old terminal under reconstruction and merging with new terminal

Interior of the old terminal

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya Airlines	St Petersburg
Belavia	Minsk Seasonal: Brest, Homiel, Hrodna
Nordavia	Seasonal: Murmansk (begins 28 December 2016, ends 9 January 2017)^[1]
S7 Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo
Severstal Air Company	Cherepovets
Ural Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg
UTair Aviation	Moscow-Vnukovo
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent

Passengers statistics

Passenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes:

2002 - 163,000
2003 - 115,000
2004 - 209,000
2005 - 311,000
2006 - 731,626
2007 - 1,204,060
2008 - 1,920,000
2009 - 1,357,000
2010 - 1,023,990
2011 - 1,229,017
2014 - 1,460,054^[2]

Ground transportation

The city bus line No. 144 by Koenigtransauto (Кёнигтрансавто) connects the airport with the Kaliningrad Main Bus/Railway Station.

References

↑ "Новости В Калининград на новый год". Nordavia – regional airlines. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
↑ "Kaliningrad Khrabrovo airport in 2014 year handled 1.46 million (Russian)". kgd.aero. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

External links

Media related to Khrabrovo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Khrabrovo Airport Official website
ASN Accidents history for UMKK
NOAA/NWS current weather observations
Airport information for UMKK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

Baltic Fleet of Russian navy

Commander of fleet	Vice Admiral V. P. Kravchuk

Divisions	Leningrad Naval Base Baltiysk Naval base Separate Guards brigade of marines of the Baltic fleet 127 separate sea engineering battalion Strazh Balticy (newspaper)

Navy bases in Kaliningrad Oblast	Fleet command: Kaliningrad Marine base: Baltiysk Air bases: Chernyakhovsk Kaliningrad Chkalovsk Donskoye Khrabrovo

Navy base in Saint Petersburg and Oblast	Saint Petersburg Kronstadt Vysotsk

Former naval bases	Finland: Hanko Porkkala Suomenlinna Estonia: Paldiski Latvia: Liepāja

Baltic Fleet page at the official Ministry of Defence website

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