Tolmachevo Airport

For the urban locality in Leningrad Oblast, see Tolmachyovo.

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Толмачёво) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is an international airport situated in the town of Ob, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the center of Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia.

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport Novosibirsk Аэропорт Толмачёво
IATA: OVB ICAO: UNNT LID: ТЛЧ
Summary
Airport type	Military / Public
Owner	Roman Trotsenko through Novaport
Operator	Tolmachevo Airport (JSC)
Serves	Novosibirsk
Location	Ob, Russia
Hub for	S7 Airlines
Elevation AMSL	365 ft / 111 m
Coordinates	55°00′45″N 82°39′02″E
Website	www.tolmachevo.ru
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 3,600 11,801 Asphalt concrete 16/34 3,600 11,818 Concrete
Statistics (2020)
Passengers 4,634,166 Passenger change 19–20 31.3% Aircraft movements 30,770 Movements change 19–20 7.3%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[1] AIP of the Russian Federation,[2] Tolmachevo media centre*[3][4]

Overview

There are two (3,600 metres (11,800 ft) and 3,605 metres (11,827 ft)) active runways in Tolmachevo Airport, along with one large passenger terminal with two connected sections (Section A for domestic flights (25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft), 18 check-in desks, 2 jet bridges, capacity 1,800 passengers/hour,^[5] and Section B for international flights (27,000 square metres (290,000 sq ft), 14 check-in desks, 3 jet bridges, capacity 1,300 passengers/hour),^[6] 2 cargo terminals and 61 aircraft stands. Runway 16 is equipped with an ILS CAT II, which enables aircraft operations in low ceiling (30 metres) and visibility (350 metres).^[7]

The airport is situated in the middle of the route from some important East-Asian cities (e.g. Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, etc.) to Europe which makes it attractive for cargo airlines to use it for refueling stops.^[8] It serves also as a diversion airport on Polar route 1.^[9][10]

Tolmachevo is the busiest airport in Siberia and the sixth-busiest airport in Russia.^[11][12] It is also the busiest regional transit airport in Russia after Moscow MOW.^[13] In 2020, the airport served 4,634,166 passengers (-31.3%)^[4] and handled 34,158 tons of cargo (+0.05%).^[4] Detailed data for years 2003–2020 is in the Traffic Statistics section below.

The Tolmachevo Airport is operated by Novaport since 2011.^[14][15]

History

Operations began on July 12, 1957, with the first passenger flight of a Tupolev Tu-104 from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The airport was owned by United Tolmachevo Aviation Enterprise and the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR until 1992. The airport then became a joint stock company in 1995, with 51% owned by the state. The domestic terminal was completely renovated in 2006. Tolmachevo Airport is also the first Russian airport to receive an ISO 9002-96 certificate. On November 29, 2012, for the first time in its history, the airport received its three-millionth annual passenger.^[16] During 2014-2015, the former international terminal was enlarged and merged with the domestic terminal which doubled its passenger capacity.^[6] The airport celebrated its four-millionth annual passenger on December 21, 2016.^[17] In the last hours of 2017, another milestone was reached: on December 31, 2017, the airport handled its five-millionth annual passenger.^[18] On December 18, 2019, the airport celebrated its first 6.5-millionth annual passenger.^[19]

Plans for its further development include construction of a new rapid-exit taxiway and 4 stands for wide-body aircraft,^[20] On 15 September 2020 the airport commenced construction works of the new terminal. Work is being conducted by contractor Ant Yapı (Turkey). Construction of the 56,000 square meters terminal will be completed in the third quarter of 2022. Phase two work will be completed by 2025.^[21] The total area of the airport terminal will be more than 100,000 square meters.^[22]

The airport is also home to the 337th Independent Helicopter Regiment (previously called the 562nd Air Base (Army Aviation)) flying Mil Mi-24P's and Mil Mi-8AMTSh-V's^[23] and the Composite Aviation Squadron, 32nd Independent Composite Transport Aviation Regiment, both as part of the 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.^[24]

Accidents and incidents

Main article: Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066

• On 13 November 2020, an Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft operating Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066 suffered an uncontained engine failure on departure and was severely damaged. On landing back at Tolmachevo, the aircraft overran the runway and was further damaged when its nosewheels collapsed. All fourteen people on board survived.^[25]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Bangkok–Suvarnahumi,[26] Khabarovsk, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Phuket,[27] Saint Petersburg, Sanya[28] Seasonal: Antalya, Sochi
Alrosa	Mirny, Moscow–Vnukovo, Udachny Seasonal: Sochi
Aurora	Khabarovsk
Avia Traffic Company	Bishkek, Osh
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku[29]
Azur Air	Seasonal charter: Colombo–Bandaranaike,[30] Hurghada, Nha Trang (begins 22 March 2025),[31] Pattaya,[30] Phuket[30]
Centrum Air	Tashkent (begins 1 April 2025)[32]
Flydubai	Dubai–International
FlyOne Armenia	Yerevan (begins 31 March 2025)
Georgian Airways	Tbilisi[33]
Ikar	Seasonal charter: Phuket, Sochi
IrAero	Baku, Irkutsk, Kyzyl, Talakan
Myanmar Airways International	Mandalay,[34] Yangon[35][36]
NordStar	Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal: Saint Petersburg, Sochi
Pobeda	Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[37] Moscow–Vnukovo Seasonal: Sochi
Qazaq Air	Astana,[38] Öskemen[38]
Red Wings Airlines	Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala, Phuket,[39]
Rossiya Airlines	Krasnoyarsk–International, Saint Petersburg
RusLine	Moscow-Vnukovo
S7 Airlines[40]	Abakan, Almaty,[41] Antalya,[42] Astana,[41] Baku,[43] Bangkok–Suvarnahumi,[44] Barnaul, Beijing–Daxing,[45] Bishkek, Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Dubai–Al Maktoum,[46] Dubai–International,[46] Dushanbe, Fergana, Gorno-Altaysk, Irkutsk, Istanbul,[47] Izhevsk, Kaliningrad,[48] Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Khujand, Krasnoyarsk–International, Kyzyl, Magadan, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Mirny, Moscow–Domodedovo, Nadym, Neryungri, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Osh, Öskemen, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Pevek, Saint Petersburg, Salekhard (begins 1 April 2025),[49] Samara, Samarqand, Saratov,[50] Sochi, Surgut, Şymkent (resumes 5 June 2025),[49] Talakan, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan,[51] Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Seasonal: Tamchy-Issyk-Kul
SCAT Airlines	Seasonal charter: Phu Quoc, Sihanoukville,[52] Taraz[52]
Smartavia	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg Seasonal: Sochi
Somon Air	Dushanbe
Utair	Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut
UVT Aero	Tobolsk,[53] Yekaterinburg
Uzbekistan Airways	Fergana, Tashkent
Yakutia Airlines	Moscow–Vnukovo, Neryungri, Yakutsk
Yamal Airlines	Novy Urengoy, Salekhard

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Aviastar-TU	Hangzhou[54][55]
Russian Post	Harbin, Zhengzhou[56][57]

Statistics

The monument from Tupolev Tu-154M of S7 Airlines at Tolmachevo Airport

Tolmachevo Airport outside view of joint terminal (left - domestic section A, right - international section B) before construction of the new terminal in 2020

Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics^{[58][59][60][61][62][63][4]}

Year (month)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2021*	6,046,000	48.0%	0715,000	31.0%	6,761,000	46.0%
2020	4,087,771	16.6%	0546,395	70.4%	4,634,166	31.3%
2019	4,903,212	14.5%	1,843,939	13.3%	6,747,151	14.2%
2018	4,281,799	20.6%	1,627,279	11.7%	5,909,078	18.0%
2017	3,550,375	17.7%	1,456,927	34.9%	5,007,302	22.2%
2016	3,017,226	16.0%	1,080,264	02.0%	4,097,490	10.6%
2015	2,600,974	07.0%	1,102,237	27.8%	3,703,211	06.4%
2014	2,431,238	10.9%	1,526,429	02.0%	3,957,667	05.6%
2013	2,191,304	08.7%	1,556,907	24.5%	3,748,211	14.7%
2012	2,015,767	13.7%	1,250,978	25.9%	3,266,745	18.1%
2011	1,772,566	12.5%	0993,316	44.7%	2,765,884	22.3%
2010	1,575,185	15.3%	0686,442	56.8%	2,261,630	25.3%
2009	1,366,500	20.3%	0437,800	06.3%	1,804,297	14.5%
2008	1,643,900	12.7%	0465,500	12.4%	2,109,424	12.6%
2007	1,459,200	12.3%	0414,300	16.0%	1,873,496	13.1%
2006	1,299,700	02.5%	0357,200	06.2%	1,656,901	00.5%
2005	1,268,500	05.7%	0379,400	11.5%	1,647,940	07.0%
2004	1,199,500	11.7%	0340,300	17.3%	1,539,777	12.9%
2003	1,073,900	12.7%	0290,000	00.4%	1,363,952	09.9%

(*)Preliminary Data. Source: Tolmachevo media centre^[64]

Busiest domestic routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[65][66] Rank City Passengers Growth 2013/2012 1 Moscow 1,073,265 05% 2 Saint Petersburg 0152,068 15% 3 Khabarovsk 0122,150 24% 4 Vladivostok 0095,864 15% 5 Yakutsk 0069,555 11% 6 Irkutsk 0066,751 69% 7 Yekaterinburg 0044,091 17% 8 Mirny 0042,246 04% 9 Surgut 0038,006 14% 10 Nizhnevartovsk 0035,465 18%

Busiest international routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[65][66] Rank City Country Passengers Growth 2013/2012 1 Bangkok  Thailand 215,408 25% 2 Antalya  Turkey 143,906 13% 3 Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan 100,635 22% 4 Phuket  Thailand 093,134 49% 5 Osh  Kyrgyzstan 080,041 08% 6 Beijing  China 077,026 14% 7 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 050,564 36% 8 Khujand  Tajikistan 047,645 13% 9 Ürümqi  China 041,845 06% 10 Dushanbe  Tajikistan 041,470 04%

Ground transportation

Public transportation to the city is provided by a number of bus routes, as well as by private and municipal taxis. Shuttle bus service runs also between the airport and the Ob railway station at the Trans-Siberian Railway - a stop for Elektrichka local commuter trains and some long-distance trains in the direction of Omsk.^[67]

Since 1 June 2024 direct buses to Kuzbas' Mezhdurechensk with additional stops in Myski, Novokuznetsk, Belovo and Leninsk-Kuznetsky are available on daily basis.^[68]

See also

• Siberia portal

• Novosibirsk Elitsovka Airport
• Novosibirsk Severny Airport
• List of the busiest airports in Russia
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
• List of military airbases in Russia