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Tiksi Airport

Tiksi, Russia

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Tiksi Airport

Tiksi, Russia
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Remote Arctic gateway serving the Sakha Republic.

Location
Tiksi, Russia
Tiksi Airport (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) serves the remote Arctic settlement of Tiksi, located on the Laptev Sea coast in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. The airport is a critical transport link for this isolated community, which is inaccessible by road and reachable primarily by air or seasonal river and sea routes. The airport supports both civilian passenger operations and has historically served military and scientific functions due to Tiksi's strategic Arctic location. It handles a modest volume of traffic, primarily connecting Tiksi with Yakutsk and other regional centers in the Russian Far East.
Terminals
The airport has a small, basic terminal facility suited to its low passenger volumes and remote Arctic setting.
Getting to & from
Ground transport options are extremely limited, with local vehicles providing the primary means of reaching the nearby town of Tiksi.
Airlines here
Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines operate regional services connecting Tiksi to Yakutsk and other settlements in the Sakha Republic.
Notable facts
  • ›Located above the Arctic Circle on the Laptev Sea coast at approximately 71°N latitude.
  • ›Tiksi is a closed settlement requiring special permits for entry due to its sensitive Arctic and military significance.
  • ›The airport runway is capable of handling larger aircraft necessary for cargo and resupply missions.
  • ›Air transport is essential for the community as no permanent road connections exist to major cities.
  • ›The area around Tiksi is used for Arctic scientific research and meteorological monitoring.
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Routes

IKS → YKSPI · AN4
IKS → YKSR3 · DH4 A40
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Tiksi Airport
Encyclopaedia

Tiksi Aerodrome is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Sakha Republic, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States. It is used regularly by Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice travelling to the Canadian arctic. Two other nearby airfields known as Tiksi North and Tiksi West have been abandoned for decades, and are probably unusable, according to satellite imagery.

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