VAQ

Vanavara Airport

ICAO UNIW60.3562°N 102.3096°E272 m / 892 ftMedium airport
On the map

Vanavara Airport (IATA: VAQ, ICAO: UNIW) is a medium airport in Vanavara, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It opened in 1948. It has one runway, 1,400 m (4,592 ft) long, concrete. In 2017 it handled 1 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1948–1948
1948
OpenedVanavara Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
06/24 · LIT
LENGTH1,400 m4,592 ftWIDTH22 m72 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2016–2017
15K
1K
1617

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAzur Air 1KrasAvia 1Taimyr Air Company 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VAQ. From the Wikipedia article “Vanavara Airport” (revision of 6 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,236of 3,974 · #885 Asia · #221 RULongest runway1,400 m4,592 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,965of 29,823 · #1,449 Asia · #305 RUElevation272 m892 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=19,588of 43,341 · #1,169 Asia · #129 RUAgeOpened 19482026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,279of 15,079 · =181 Asia · =52 RURunways11 · 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