Bovanenkovo Airport is a strategic facility on the Yamal Peninsula and the northernmost airport in our country. Currently unknown to most of our citizens, unless they are workers in the mine and surrounding areas. The airport is owned by OOO Gazprom avia (a subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom) and is mostly used to deliver shift workers to the field. Accepts aircraft and helicopters of any purpose.
Location
The airport is located near the working village of Bovanenkovo, 40 kilometers from the coast of the Kara Sea, in the north-west of Yamal.
The nearest regional center (the village of Yar-Sale) is 400 km away. How does an administrative object relate to the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Functions
Bovanenkovo Airport operates both passenger and cargo flights, as well as special purpose flights. Planned infurther expansion of the use of the airfield for the purpose of servicing the Northern Sea Route, as an alternate airfield for the use of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Federal Security Service, the Russian Ministry of Defense. With its help, communication with the mainland was simplified.
Passengers should be aware that there are no special amenities in the airport building. Service is carried out on a rotational basis. There are no usual food outlets, hotels, post offices at the airport.
The airfield has one 2,625-meter paved runway and currently has nine aircraft parking spaces. True, according to the plan, an area has been equipped for another eight additional ones.
The airfield has a storage of fuels and lubricants. Fuel is delivered by rail to the Karskaya station, and from there it goes to the airfield storage via a special pipeline. Bovanenkovo has a fuel quality control laboratory and a filling station that meets all safety requirements.
Bovanenkovo Airport has a building that houses office and passenger services. It is capable of passing a flow of 50 people per hour, the company plans to expand the passenger flow to 150 people per hour.
The main flight destinations are Nadym and Syktyvkar, Moscow and Tyumen. All planes depart according to a special schedule. The flight schedule can be found on the airport's online scoreboard on the website or in the airport task.
History
The first flight was made in 2013 and was technical. It was dedicated to the openingoil and gas condensate field of the same name, gigantic in scale, known since 1971 and named after Vadim Bovanenkov, a Soviet geologist.
Earlier, people got here on all-terrain vehicles from Salekhard. Before the opening of the airfield, a helipad was equipped, and shift workers were delivered from Nadym by helicopters.
Construction was carried out in three stages. First, as mentioned above, they built a heliport, then a winter runway, and then a concrete runway. Difficult weather conditions were not conducive to rapid construction.
Climate
Bovanenkovo Airport is located in the subarctic tundra zone, and, accordingly, the weather here is very difficult.
