The administrative center of the Bryansk region, the city of Bryansk, is located in the west of the country, near the border of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The city was founded in 985 AD. e., and over the entire period of its existence has grown to a fairly decent size for a regional significance. The city was captured several times by ill-wishers. For some time he spent under the yoke of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for quite a long time the city was the subject of a dispute between the Commonwe alth and the Russian kingdom. During the Great Patriotic War, the city was captured by the Germans and liberated by the Soviet troops almost two years later. In the post-war years, several nearby towns and villages were incorporated into the city. And in 1961, the civil Bryansk airport was opened on the basis of the Soviet military airfield.
History of occurrence
In 1926, on a hill near the village of Gorodishche, a completely ordinary and unremarkable village until that date, the construction of an airfield runway began. The place was chosennot by chance. If you look at the topographic map of the area, you can see that here is the highest point on the surface of the plateau, on the area of \u200b\u200bwhich it would be possible to build a civil flight object in the future. Already in those years, the authorities were thinking about the possible modernization of the designed runway into the civil Bryansk airport. It was dubbed Bryansk for its administrative belonging to a large settlement nearby, despite the fact that the village of Gorodishche was territorially located much closer. 200 meters to the village (almost across the road) versus 5 kilometers (at that time) to the city of Bryansk. However, in the plans of the leaders of the country, it was planned to give this military (and after a few years already a civilian) object views for the distant future. That is why his name was associated with belonging to the region of location.
Pre-war years
Already in 1927, the NPO's Bryansk airfield, as it was called at that time, was put into operation. It is noteworthy that from 1928 to 1929, the famous Valery Chkalov served in the 15th Bryansk Aviation Squadron, whose name is currently borne by several regional airports in the Russian Federation, for example, the Chkalovsky airport near the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region.
In 1934, the Bryansk airport received the status of a civil one and began to accept flights for refueling, following the route "Moscow - Kyiv" and back. At that time it was accepted as a strategically importantresolution, since the airfield served flights between the two republics, linking Moscow with the Ukrainian SSR. Thanks to this fact, a little more than six months after the transfer of the airport to civilian rails, it receives the status of a regional one with a corresponding increase in the level of financing and development of the airport infrastructure. In 1941, just before Nazi Germany declared war on the USSR, the airport was upgrading the runway "A" and the taxiway from the runway to the terminal building.
Thaw
After the capture of the city by the German invaders, the airport came under the control of the Nazis, but a year later, in 1943, the Red Army recaptured it. Since 1945, the status of the airfield has changed again - the facility has been taken over by the military.
After the Great Victory, the 204th squadron of the Moscow air group was stationed here, and a little later, three squadrons of the 170th squadron were assigned to the base. In 1946, a new civil airport was opened in the neighboring town of Bezhitsa (currently one of the districts of the city of Bryansk), which is still operated by small aircraft. Several flying clubs are located at its base.
In 1961, on the basis of a military airfield in Gorodishche, the civilian Bryansk airport was reopened. Three years later, the Bryansk United Air Squadron OJSC begins its work, and in December 1967, the first turbojet aircraft lands on the runway, the new-fangled and modern Yak-40 at that time. After the New Year holidays, from January 1968, the era of active operation of aircraft beginsthis type.
Further development
In 1974, the airport terminal itself, its ground services, including the information desk of the Bryansk airport, which provides information to the population on any issue related to the operation of the airport and flights, move to another building. The new complex was built on the opposite side of the runway and was designed specifically for the administrative needs of the aviation enterprise. Old buildings and structures that have been used up to this point have been partially dismantled.
Until the 90s, the airport operated as a regional airport. The assigned category allows servicing both turboprop and turbojet aircraft of that time, including Yak-42 and Tu-154.
Sunset
In the 90s, the issue of flight safety and the reduction of noise pollution in Bryansk, which had grown by that time, became especially acute. The airport runway is located in the very center of the city. Attached areas, former towns and villages surround the Bryansk airport. The phone of the city administration is torn from complaints from residents of nearby houses, and, as a result, the city leadership makes a difficult decision to transfer the airfield. In December 1994, the old airport was closed, and the enterprise was moved 14 kilometers from the city limits to the west. In the same 1994, a new aviation site was opened there near the village of Oktyabrskoye.
New era
Bryansk International Airport acquires its new status just a year after its opening. In July 1996, the first international flight departed from there (to Varna, Bulgaria), carried out on the An-24 turboprop. In 1997, new international routes to Istanbul (Turkey) and Burgas (Bulgaria) were opened, already operated on Yak-40 and Tu-134 turbojet liners.
Development is in full swing. Every year passengers are offered new flights. Bryansk Airport is expanding its destinations, including in Russia. In 2010, regular routes to Moscow were opened, since 2013 - to St. Petersburg, and in 2015 - to Simferopol and Krasnodar.
Information about the operation of the airport, as well as the flight schedule, can be clarified at the help desk by phone +7 (4832) 59-00-80.
