Uytash Airport

Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash"

Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ"
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerRussian Federation
OperatorCivil Government
ServesMakhachkala
LocationMakhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia
Time zoneMoscow Time (+4)
Elevation AMSL12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E / 42.8168222°N 47.6522944°E / 42.8168222; 47.6522944
Websitewww.mcx.aero
Map
МСХ is located in Republic of Dagestan
МСХ
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Location of the airport in Dagestan
МСХ is located in European Russia
МСХ
МСХ
Location of the airport in Russia
МСХ is located in Europe
МСХ
МСХ
Location of the airport in Europe
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,640 8,662 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Passengers1,290,000
Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1]

Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) (IATA: MCX, ICAO: URML) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and Kaspiysk cities. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.[2]

South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.[3][4]

Airlines and destinations

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AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia Sharjah
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
Azimuth Sochi[5]
Belavia Minsk[6]
flydubai Dubai–International
IrAero Antalya, Istanbul
NordStar Moscow–Domodedovo, Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines Kazan, Kirov,[7] Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm,[8] Saint Petersburg,[9] Samara,[10] Sochi, Tomsk,[11] Tyumen, Ufa, Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka,[12] Yekaterinburg[13]
Seasonal: Chelyabinsk,[14] Ivanovo,[15] Saransk[16]
Pobeda Abu Dhabi (begins 1 October 2024),[17] Antalya, Dubai–Al Maktoum,[18] Istanbul,[19] Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[20] Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg, Surgut
Red Wings Airlines Almaty,[21] Antalya, Bukhara, Istanbul, Moscow-Zhukovsky,[22] Namangan, Pskov,[23] Samara,[24] Saratov,[25] Tashkent, Urgench, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan[26]
Seasonal: Chelyabinsk[14]
Rossiya Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
SCAT Airlines Aqtau
Severstal Avia Cherepovets[27]
Somon Air Dushanbe[28]
Ural Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg
Utair Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo[29]
Seasonal: Surgut
UVT Aero Kazan
Yakutia Airlines Moscow–Vnukovo

Accidents and incidents

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  • On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft collided and caught fire.
  • On 4 December 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to Makhachkala, crash landed at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died.
  • On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful.[30] Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities.[31] This event, sparked by false rumors about the arrival of Israeli refugees,[32][33] occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Russian authorities of Dagestan blamed the Morning of Dagestan channel on Telegram, as well as Ukraine and Ilya Ponomarev, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country".[34] Ponomarev denied any connection to the Morning of Dagestan,[35] while Morning of Dagestan itself attributed the story of their connection to Ponomarev to "FSB mad dogs"[36] as well as confusion between the Morning of Dagestan channel and Ponomarev's February Morning channel.[37]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Объемы перевозок через аэропорты России" [Transportation volumes at Russian airports]. favt.ru (in Russian). Federal Air Transport Agency. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Страницы крымской истории. Памяти Амет-Хана Султана". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). February 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 23–29 March 2004. 59.
  4. ^ "Главная." South East Airlines. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. "Россия, Республика Дагестан, г. Махачкала, аэропорт ."
  5. ^ "Azimuth Expands Sochi Network in NS24". AeroRoutes. 2 April 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Belavia launches direct flights to Makhachkala". en.belavia.by. BELAVIA - Belarusian Airlines. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  7. ^ Магомедов, Шамиль (18 March 2024). "Nordwind начнет совершать полеты из Махачкалы в Киров". Travel.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Nordwind начнет совершать полеты между Пермью и Махачкалой". Travel.ru (in Russian). 14 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Дагестан с апреля 2024г увеличит частоту авиарейсов в Санкт-Петербург". РБК (in Russian). 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Nordwind будет выполнять рейсы между Махачкалой и Самарой". Travel.ru (in Russian). 20 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Nordwind с 26 апреля запустит прямой рейс из Махачкалы в Томск - Сибирь || Интерфакс Россия". www.interfax-russia.ru (in Russian). 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  12. ^ Турковская, Ольга (1 February 2024). "Возобновляются авиарейсы из Ульяновска в Махачкалу". Улпресса - все новости Ульяновска (in Russian). Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Nordwind начнет летать между Махачкалой и Екатеринбургом". Travel.ru (in Russian). 18 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  14. ^ a b "Рейсы из аэропорта Челябинск в Махачкалу". cekport.ru. Международный аэропорт Челябинск. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Аэропорт "Иваново" открывает продажу билетов на новый рейс Иваново – Махачкала!". ivanovo.aero. Аэропорт «Иваново». Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  16. ^ "Авиарейс из Саранска в Махачкалу планируют запустить в мае 2024 года (АвиаПорт)". АвиаПорт.Ru (in Russian). 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  17. ^ Liu, Jim (29 June 2024). "Pobeda Schedules Makhachkala – Abu Dhabi Oct 2024 Launch". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  18. ^ "Pobeda Oct 2023 International Network Additions". AeroRoutes. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  19. ^ "Podeba resumes Makhachkala - Istanbul Service From July 2023". AeroRoutes. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  20. ^ "В Шереметьево празднуют "Победу"". kommersant. 8 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Red Wings Adds Makhachkala – Almaty Service From mid-July 2023". AeroRoutes. 13 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  22. ^ Shatilin, Ilya (24 June 2024). "Red Wings запускает 8 новых направлений из Жуковского — FrequentFlyers.ru" (in Russian). FrequentFlyers.ru. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  23. ^ "Первый самолет из Махачкалы прилетел в Псков". pln-pskov.ru. Псковская Лента Новостей. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  24. ^ "Самару и Махачкалу свяжут прямые авиарейсы". TACC. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  25. ^ "В аэропорту "Гагарин" открывается регулярный рейс в Махачкалу". gsv.aero. SarAero-Invest JSC. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  26. ^ "Red Wings Adds Makhachkala – Yerevan Service From July 2023". AeroRoutes. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  27. ^ Бушманова, Валентина. "Из Череповца пустят авиарейс в Дагестан". Официальный сайт Череповца (in Russian). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  28. ^ "Сомон Эйр увеличила количество рейсов в Жуковский - AVIA RU Network". www.aviaru.net. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  29. ^ "Utair NS24 Network Additions". AeroRoutes. 2 April 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  30. ^ "Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel". AP News. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  31. ^ Josh, Pennington; Pierre, Meilhan; Ehlinger, Maija; Gold, Hadas (30 October 2023). "Anti-Israel mob storms through Russian airport as flight from Tel Aviv lands". CNN. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  32. ^ "Погром в аэропорту Махачкалы. Главное к полудню понедельника: Вечером в воскресенье толпа прорвалась в здание аэропорта Махачкалы, а затем и на летное поле, чтобы не допустить прибытия «беженцев из Израиля». Информация о том, что их якобы собираются поселить в Дагестане, распространялась в местных телеграм-каналах. В итоге были задержаны 60 человек, глава республики обвинил в беспорядках «предателей» и «бандеровцев»" [Pogrom at Makhachkala airport. The main thing by Monday afternoon: On Sunday evening, a crowd broke into the Makhachkala airport building and then onto the airfield to prevent the arrival of “refugees from Israel.” Information that they were allegedly going to be settled in Dagestan was disseminated in local telegram channels. As a result, 60 people were detained; the head of the republic blamed “traitors” and “Bandera supporters” for the unrest.]. BBC (in Russian). 30 October 2023. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  33. ^ "Беспорядки в аэропорту Махачкалы. Что стало известно к утру Задержаны 60 человек, пострадали девять полицейских, глава Дагестана обвинил в произошедшем «врагов и бандеровцев»" [Riots at Makhachkala airport. What became known by morning : 60 people were detained, nine police officers were injured, the head of Dagestan blamed “enemies and Bandera” for the incident.]. Meduza (in Russian). 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  34. ^ "Dagestan governor blames Ukraine for inciting pogrom at Makhachkala airport". Novaya Gazeta. 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  35. ^ Мухин, Максим (Mukhin, Maxim) (30 October 2023). "Россию ждут выступления русских против мусульман, – "организатор" бунта в Махачкале Илья Пономарев" [Russia is waiting for Russians to protest against Muslims, - Ilya Ponomarev, the “organizer” of the riot in Makhachkala]. Фокус (focus.ua) (in Russian). Kyiv. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  36. ^ "Morning of Dagestan". Telegram. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  37. ^ "Morning of Dagestan". Telegram. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
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