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Petrozavodsk Airport

Airport in Karelia, Russia

Summary

Airport in Karelia, Russia

Field	Value
name	Petrozavodsk Airport
nativename
nativename-a
image	Besovets Airport logo.svg
image2	Airport Petrozavodsk Besovets 2020.jpg
IATA	PES
ICAO	ULPB
type	Civil/military
operator	Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia
city-served	Petrozavodsk
location	Besovets, Republic of Karelia, Russia
elevation-f	151
elevation-m	46
coordinates
pushpin_map	Russia Karelia#Russia
pushpin_map_caption	Shown within Republic of Karelia, Russia
pushpin_label	Petrozavodsk
website	karelavia.ru
metric-rwy	y
r1-number	01/19
r1-length-f	8,202
r1-length-m	2,500
r1-surface	Concrete

Satellite imagery of Petrozavodsk Airport

Petrozavodsk Airport (, , ; ; ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located 12 km northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.

The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s, Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s, it was home to the 991st Fighter Aviation Regiment (991 IAP), which flew Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat' aircraft. In 1992–93, the 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army. it flies the Sukhoi Su-35S aircraft and is now part of the 105th Guards Mixed Aviation Division, 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

As of July 2025 Petrozavodsk Airport serves following flights:

Accidents and incidents

On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of Runway 01 at Petrozavodsk Airport, while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.

References

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(8 July 2025). "Новый авиарейс свяжет Петрозаводск и Москву – СампоТВ 360°". Сетевое издание «САМПО ТВ 360°».
(18 July 2025). "Direct flights to connect Dagestan and Karelia in August". Vestnik Kavkaza.
(24 October 2025). "Direct Flight To Link Minsk And Petrozavodsk In May 2026". REFORM.news (formerly REFORM.by).
(1 April 2025). "Стартовала продажа билетов на авиарейсы Петрозаводск — Казань". Интернет-газета «СТОЛИЦА на Onego.ru».
(20 June 2011). "Crash: Rusair T134 at Petrozavodsk on Jun 20th 2011, impacted road short of runway". The Aviation Herald.

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