Kursk Vostochny Airport Аэропорт Курск-Восточный | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Civilian, Military | ||||||||||
Owner | Russian Aerospace Forces | ||||||||||
Operator | 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army | ||||||||||
Location | Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 686 ft / 209 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°45′6″N 36°17′48″E / 51.75167°N 36.29667°E | ||||||||||
Website | aerokursk.ru | ||||||||||
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Kursk Vostochny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Курск-Восточный) (IATA: URS, ICAO: UUOK),[1] also known as Khalino airbase, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia, with a single 2,500 m (8,200 ft) runway located 7 km east of Kursk. It has been used for many decades as a military airbase and has had periods of time when it was also utilized as a commercial airport. It is located 4 miles northeast of Kursk and is considered a medium-sized base, with several alert pads. A civilian tarmac is located on the southern side of the airfield, which utilizes the common runway facilities.
Khalino airbase was home to:
All commercial flight activity at the airport was banned by Russian authorities at the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, starting at 03:45 on 24 February 2022. [7]
On 6 December 2022 the airport’s oil storage caught fire.[8] The Kursk governor blamed the fire on a drone strike amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
On 2 June 2023, Ukrainian sources reported several Su-34 combat aircraft located at the airport were damaged/destroyed, along with a single MiG-29 and a Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system. The information has not yet been verified independently.[9]
RusLine provided limited scheduled commercial service to Moscow–Vnukovo as of 2018,[10] and to Saint Petersburg and Sochi as of 2019.[11] All commercial service at the airport was halted in February 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]