# Cherskiy Airport (CYX / UESS)

**Cherskiy Airport** (IATA: CYX, ICAO: UESS) is a medium airport in Cherskiy, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia. It has one runway, 1,700 m (5,577 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/uess

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: CYX / UESS
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Cherskiy, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia
- Elevation: 6 m / 20 ft
- Coordinates: 68.7406, 161.3380
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,700 m / 5,577 ft
- Passengers: 6,829 (2017)
- Time zone: UTC+11 · Asia/Srednekolymsk
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chersky_Airport (15 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476695
- Ident: UESS

## Timeline

- 18 Sep 1962: Aeroflot Flight 213 (1962).

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13/31 | 1,700 m / 5,577 ft |  | Asphalt |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2016 | 7,404 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 6,829 | Wikidata |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [YKS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ueee.md) Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport · Russia · 1,612 km / 1,002 mi · Polar Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from CYX, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- PI [Polar Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/polar-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 7K (2017) | #2,838 of 3,974 | #828 in Asia | #173 in RU |
| Longest runway | 1,700 m / 5,577 ft | =5,250 of 29,858 | =1,266 in Asia | =266 in RU |
| Elevation | 6 m / 20 ft | =41,280 of 43,403 | =2,909 in Asia | =686 in RU |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =32 in RU |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #76

## Sources

- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Chersky Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chersky_Airport&oldid=1367365173), revision of 2 Aug 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/uess/data