PLX

Semei International Airport

ICAO UASS50.3513°N 80.2344°E232 m / 761 ftLarge airport
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Semei International Airport (IATA: PLX, ICAO: UASS) is a large airport in Semey, Abai Region, Kazakhstan. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,097 m (10,159 ft). In 2018 it handled 27 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1973–1973
28 FEB 1973
DisasterAeroflot Flight X-167.32 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Международный аэропорт Семей
08/26084° / 264° · LIT
LENGTH3,097 m10,159 ftWIDTH44 m145 ftSURFACEConcrete
02/20024° / 204°
LENGTH997 m3,270 ftWIDTH77 m253 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2012–2018
23K
25K
62K
66K
66K
51K
27K
12131415161718

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsFlyArystan 3SCAT Airlines 1Qazaq Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PLX. From the Wikipedia article “Semey Airport” (revision of 23 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers27K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,328of 3,974 · #723 Asia · #16 KZLongest runway3,097 m10,159 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#960of 29,823 · #294 Asia · #8 KZElevation232 m761 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=22,116of 43,341 · =1,267 Asia · #67 KZRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =30 Asia · =1 KZ
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels
TWRTWR128.000