Did you have a childhood dream to inspect the runway from the air traffic control tower, to run along the runway? If yes, then there is a chance that it will definitely come true. True, the cherished desire will come true not in the current, but in an abandoned airport. Believe me, these abandoned objects have retained their once inherent romance.
Moscow Bykovo Airport
Seven years ago, one of the oldest airports in Moscow, Bykovo, built in the 1930s, was closed.
There are now several used aircraft on the territory. It's funny that all the useless planes survived their aviation companies that closed at the end of the 2000s of our century.
Aircraft graveyard in Kazan
The area adjacent to the Kazan airport with abandoned planes attracts the attention of local residents and guests of the country's third capital. Here, young people take dangerous photographs. They climb on the wings and fuselageaircraft, into the former cockpit and arrange quite dangerous photo shoots there. Many tourists get bumps and abrasions here, and injuries are more complicated. And yet this place awakens in people a thirst for exploration and adventure. Of course, I want to visit the parks of Kazan, and I want to visit the abandoned airport even more!
Protection of abandoned aircraft in Kazan
Unfortunately, this territory is not guarded, it houses the planes of the Tatarstan airline, which has become bankrupt. According to the law, the owners of the property must protect abandoned aircraft and airports. Tatarstan Airlines is not the owner of the aircraft. They belong to a company registered in Cyprus.
Airfield in the Tula region
In the Tula region there is an airfield that stopped working about ten years ago. It was organized in the 50s of the last century. The 191st Fighter Regiment of the Moscow Air Defense District was based here, which was disbanded in 1994. After that, the 239th Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment was based at the airfield for some time. It was disbanded after four years. The airfield was completely empty in 2001.
Ten years later, the governor remembered the airfield, saying that he intends to restore abandoned airports and airfields in the region. However, nothing came of it.
Now the skeletons of the control tower and the aircraft control center remain on the airfield square. The runway itself remains.
Old AirportAnadyr
There is an old inactive abandoned airport in Anadyr. The civil airfield worked before the air harbor began to be located near the Coal Mines. Unfortunately, nothing remains of the runway, it is overgrown. The airport building today is one wall.
Biysk Airport
In the heyday of aviation in Russia, the abandoned Biysk airport had a concrete runway with a distance of two thousand seven hundred meters. She soon fell into disrepair. For some reason, it was decided to repair one and a half thousand meters of the strip, and not to repair the rest.
Nine years ago, the airport stopped admitting regular flights. The runway is completely overgrown. The airport seems to have been mothballed in anticipation of profitable times.
Loyal dogs help guard the airport. Not far from the tower is a parking lot of equipment that once worked at the airfield. There is a fire truck, a trailer to the tractor for transporting passengers along the strip, equipment for cleaning the strip from snow. Airport equipment, fortunately, carefully wrapped. As we wrote above, there are different examples in the history of our country. Although, most likely, the equipment is already outdated and still needs to be disposed of. The strip is completely overgrown with grass. Green life stubbornly breaks between the plates every summer.
Recently, the words have often been heard that with the resumption of the work of the airport in Gorno-Altaisk, the need for the airport in Biysk has disappeared. They are at a distance of less than a hundred kilometers from each other. It should be noted that betweenthe airports of the cities of Anapa and Gelendzhik are only sixty-six kilometers, between the airports of Stavropol and Mineralnye Vody - one hundred and twenty kilometers. The opinion about the uselessness of the abandoned airport in Biysk is refuted by the established practice in our country. We need to develop the city.
The photo of the abandoned airport is shown below.
Westernmost unnecessary airport
Developing the airfield theme in the Kaliningrad region, let's move on to its southern territory. Between Kaliningrad and Bagrationovsk there is a useless military airfield Severny. It functioned until the end of the 90s, after which it was decided to close it. This sad fate befell a huge number of military installations in our country in the unstable nineties. The airfield was built by the Germans in the late 30s.
Currently, the base's grassy runways are used by visiting racers who drive their cars there. The territory of the abandoned military base is formally guarded by a security organization, which selectively allows those who wish to drive along the strip and dismantle the hangars for scrap.
After the closure of the airfield, he and the military camps adjacent to it lost the status of sensitive facilities. The military continues to live there and serve in other places. Closed regime settlements have lost their former status and privileges, turning into forgotten, remote places.
Ust-Ilimsk Airport
The city's regional airport is seventeen kilometers fromnorthwestern point of Ust-Ilimsk. The city is located in the Irkutsk region.
Currently, the building, unfortunately, does not function. The airport began operating in 1980. It was equipped with powerful equipment in accordance with international ICAO standards, and is capable of receiving and sending four hundred and fifty passengers per hour during the day.
From June 2001 to the present day, the airport has not been operating. The debts of the aviation enterprise to creditors exceeded forty million rubles, its work was stopped. In 2005, the bankruptcy procedure was completed. During this long time, the building and the nearby infrastructure have been badly damaged.
Reconstruction and complete restoration will require large financial costs. During the bankruptcy process, the company's property and part of the objects were sold, some of them were given to the administration of the Ust-Ilimsk region.
It should be said that the territory of the port is not guarded. Unsold property during this time was promptly taken out in an unknown direction. Young people use the strip for racing. The issue of resuming the operation of the airport was raised more than once, and a number of companies in the capital showed interest in this. Companies later backed down on buying the airport for a variety of reasons. The district administration transferred it to the balance of the local village free of charge. The resumption of work seems impossible.
Dangers of abandoned airports
Very often, having examined the territory of inactive airports from satellite maps, noting unused aircraft, youthgroups rush to aircraft cemeteries to see everything with their own eyes. As a rule, the airport is no longer working, and is not strictly guarded, and therefore, there are no problems with penetration to abandoned equipment. Young people climb on planes without worrying about their own safety. Falls, injuries and, as a result, serious injuries occur very often.
