Nalchik Airport

ICAO URMN43.5129°N 43.6366°E445 m / 1,461 ftMedium airport

Nalchik Airport (IATA: NAL, ICAO: URMN) is a medium airport in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. It opened in 1945. It has one runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Elbrus-Avia. In 2018 it handled 237 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1945–1994

1945

OpenedNalchik Airport opens.

24 FEB 1994

DisasterPulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9045.13 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

06/24063° / 243° · LIT · SLOPE 1.2%

LENGTH2,200 m7,218 ftWIDTH42 m138 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2018

105K

194K

237K

15161718

Routes

7 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round6

AERSochi International AirportRussia · UVT Aero297 km185 mi KZNKazan International AirportRussia · UVT Aero1,404 km872 mi VKOVnukovo International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines, Pobeda1,418 km881 mi SVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Pobeda1,455 km904 mi LEDPulkovo AirportRussia · Pobeda2,024 km1,258 mi YKSPlaton Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportRussia · Yakutia Airlines5,654 km3,513 mi

Seasonal charter1

JEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Jazeera Airways2,463 km1,530 mi

Most destinationsPobeda 3UVT Aero 2Yakutia Airlines 2Jazeera Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NAL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Nalchik Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers237K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,465of 3,974 · #319 Europe · #68 RU Longest runway2,200 m7,218 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,269of 29,823 · =638 Europe · =217 RU Elevation445 m1,461 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,342of 43,341 · #880 Europe · #70 RU AgeOpened 19452026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,524of 15,079 · =717 Europe · =47 RU Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =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

APPAPP126.900

RDRASR126.900

TWRTWR118.300