# Varandey Airport (VRI / ULDW)

**Varandey Airport** (IATA: VRI, ICAO: ULDW) is a small airport in Varandey, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has one runway, 1,800 m (5,905 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by UTair Aviation. In 2017 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: VRI / ULDW
- Type: Small airport
- Operator: UTair Aviation
- Serves: Varandey, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- Elevation: 7 m / 23 ft
- Coordinates: 68.8485, 58.2014
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,800 m / 5,905 ft
- Passengers: 15,569 (2017)
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Europe/Moscow
- Website: http://www.ap-varandey.ru/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varandey_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4103583
- Ident: ULDW

## Timeline

- 16 Mar 2005: Regional Airlines Flight 9288. 28 killed.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04/22 | 1,800 m / 5,905 ft | 32 m / 105 ft | Concrete |  | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2016 | 15,020 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 15,569 | Wikidata |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (1)

- [ARH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ulaa.md) Talagi Airport · Russia · 897 km / 557 mi · UTair Aviation

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- UT [UTair Aviation](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/utair-aviation) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 16K (2017) | #2,528 of 3,974 | #771 in Asia | #133 in RU |
| Longest runway | 1,800 m / 5,905 ft | =4,890 of 29,858 | =1,233 in Asia | =256 in RU |
| Elevation | 7 m / 23 ft | =41,032 of 43,403 | =2,867 in Asia | =683 in RU |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =32 in RU |

## Nearby airports

- [ULDT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/uldt.md) Karatayka Airport · 130 km / 81 mi

## 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: “Varandey Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Varandey_Airport&oldid=1363085228), revision of 7 Jul 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/uldw/data