Lensk Airport

ICAO UERL60.7236°N 114.8253°E244 m / 801 ftMedium airport

Lensk Airport (IATA: ULK, ICAO: UERL) is a medium airport in Lensk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) long, gravel. In 2021 it handled 33 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1991–1991

17 SEP 1991

DisasterQ24934586.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25

LENGTH2,000 m6,562 ftWIDTH—SURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2016–2021

84K

57K

48K

28K

33K

1617182021

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

YKSPlaton Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines, Polar Airlines, ALROSA Air Company808 km502 mi BTKBratsk AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines900 km559 mi IKTIrkutsk International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines, IrAero, Polar Airlines +11,135 km705 mi

Most destinationsYakutia Airlines 3Polar Airlines 2ALROSA Air Company 2IrAero 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ULK. From the Wikipedia article “Lensk Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers33K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,257of 3,974 · #705 Asia · #109 RU Longest runway2,000 m6,562 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,840of 29,823 · =1,078 Asia · =230 RU Elevation244 m801 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=21,321of 43,341 · =1,225 Asia · #153 RU Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =32 RU

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