Tiksi Airport

ICAO UEST71.6977°N 128.9030°E8 m / 26 ftMedium airport

Tiksi Airport (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is a medium airport in Tiksi, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia. It has one runway, 3,001 m (9,845 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Russian Air Force. In 2021 it handled 19 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21008° / 188° · LIT

LENGTH3,001 m9,845 ftWIDTH59 m194 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2016–2021

18K

17K

15K

19K

1617182021

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

YKSPlaton Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines, Polar Airlines1,069 km664 mi VKOVnukovo International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines4,326 km2,688 mi

Most destinationsYakutia Airlines 2Polar Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from IKS. From the Wikipedia article “Tiksi Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers19K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,461of 3,974 · #756 Asia · #129 RU Longest runway3,001 m9,845 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,184of 29,823 · =336 Asia · #62 RU Elevation8 m26 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,726of 43,341 · =2,832 Asia · =677 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

Radio frequencies

2 channels

RDRKRUG128.500

TWRLANDING124.000