Kadyrov Grozny International Airport

History

First Grozny Airport began its work in 1938, when the aircraft P-5 and U-2 started to be the first postal transportation and sanitary flights. After a while, started to be flying and for agriculture. Until 1977, Grozny airport had only a dirt runway, which could only such aircraft as the Li-2, IL-14, AN-24 and AN-10.

In 1977 was introduced the new airport complex action with artificial runway and basing speed passenger aircraft Tu-134, threw in the Chechen Republic with the regions of the USSR. The new airport was named "Airport North."

Between the years 1990–2000, the airport name was changed several times:

• 1990 - Sheikh Mansour Airport
• 1995 - Airport "North"
• 1996 - Sheikh Mansour Airport
• 2000 - Airport "North"

The infrastructure of Grozny airport was significantly damaged during combat operations against Chechen fighters, who seized the airport on September 8, 1991 and held it until 30 September 1994. After the end of the war and the beginning of a relatively peaceful life in the country, the airport gradually recovered. In 2000 there was created FSI "Directorate for Recovery of Grozny Airport" North "under the leadership of Adnan Gakayeva Vakhidovich in respect of which 1 December 2005-year investigation department of the FSB for the Chechen Republic was prosecuted for embezzlement of funds in particular large scale", aimed at restoring the airport.

During 1999–2006, in the process of rebuilding the airport, the runway was expanded and extended. The airport complex capable of receiving the Tu-154 and IL-62, was rebuilt. The 6 March 2002 Russian Ministry of Transport Decree number AT-76-P launched a full-scale rebuilding of the airport. In 2005, North Airport was renamed Grozny Airport.

On 19 February 2007, the order of FATA number AIO-19 issued certificate of state registration to the Grozny Airport (North). The airport was assigned to class B to gain admission to the reception of Tu-134 aircraft and helicopters of all types, day and night, all year round. On November 29, 2007, Grozny airport was authorized to receive the Tu-154.

The first regular passenger flight to Grozny, which had been suspended for six years, resumed on March 8, 2007. The inaugural flight landed at Chechnya's main airport and marked the restart of civilian air service between the city and Moscow.

On 11 June 2009, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) issued an international aerodrome certificate, therefore the aerodrome was accepted as suitable for international flights service.

On 25 December 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was suspected to have been struck by anti-aircraft weapons amid a suspected Ukrainian drone attack on approach to Grozny Airport, leading it to crash in Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.

Airlines and destinations

| Aeroflot | Antalya, Moscow–Sheremetyevo | Centrum Air | Tashkent | Mahan Air | Tehran–Imam Khomeini | Rossiya Airlines | Saint Petersburg | Ural Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo | Utair | Istanbul, Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut | Uzbekistan Airlines | Tashkent

Historical airlines

• Stigl – the former national airline of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, operated from Grozny Sheikh Mansur Airport between 1992 and 1994.

References

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