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Alykel International Airport

ICAO UOOO69.3080°N 87.3259°E175 m / 574 ftLarge airport
On the map
NorilskAlykel
Photograph: NASA · Public domain · Commons

Alykel International Airport (IATA: NSK, ICAO: UOOO) is a large airport in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It opened in 1950. It has one runway, 3,430 m (11,254 ft) long, concrete. In 2021 it handled 605 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1950–1981
1950
OpenedAlykel International Airport opens.
17 NOV 1981
DisasterAeroflot Flight 3603.99 killed

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19032° / 212° · LIT
LENGTH3,430 m11,254 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2011–2021
45K
485K
486K
477K
499K
516K
462K
499K
431K
605K
11121314151617182021

Routes

22 destinations · 1 country
Year-round14
THXTurukhansk AirportRussia · KrasAvia391 km243 miDKSDikson AirportRussia · KrasAvia528 km328 miHTGKhatanga AirportRussia · KrasAvia630 km391 miKJAKrasnoyarsk International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company1,482 km921 miOVBNovosibirsk Tolmachevo AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company, S7 Airlines1,606 km998 miABAAbakan International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company1,743 km1,083 miSVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company1,904 km1,183 miUFAUfa International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company2,275 km1,414 miLEDPulkovo AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company2,797 km1,738 miDMEDomodedovo International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company, S7 Airlines2,865 km1,780 miMRVMineralnye Vody AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company3,725 km2,315 miOGZVladikavkaz Beslan International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company3,773 km2,344 miKRRKrasnodar Pashkovsky International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company3,787 km2,353 miAERSochi International AirportRussia · Taimyr Air Company3,915 km2,433 mi
Most destinationsTaimyr Air Company 19KrasAvia 3S7 Airlines 2UTair Aviation 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NSK. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Alykel International Airport” (revision of 6 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers605K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,032of 3,974 · #326 Asia · #43 RULongest runway3,430 m11,254 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#572of 29,823 · #169 Asia · #37 RUElevation175 m574 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=25,825of 43,341 · =1,431 Asia · =249 RUAgeOpened 19502026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,626of 15,079 · =187 Asia · =54 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

Radio frequencies

3 channels
APPAPP120.400
GNDGND121.700
TWRTWR118.300