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Vnukovo Airport
Airport Directory » Russia » Moscow » Vnukovo AirportVnukovo International Airport (Russian: Международный аэропорт Внуково Mezhdunarnodniy aeroport Vnukovo) (IATA: VKO, ICAO: UUWW), is an international airport turn up 28 kilometre (18 mi) southwestward from the centre of Moscow, Russia. It is 1 of 3 leading airports assisting Moscow (alongside with Domodedovo International Airport and Sheremetyevo International Airport). In 2007, the airport dealt 6.78 million riders, corresponding a 33% increase over 2006.
Vnukovo is the oldest of the functioning airports in Moscow. The building was okayed by the Soviet authority in 1937, since the older Khodynka Airport (turn up much closer to the town center and closed by 1980s) was clogged. Vnukovo was opened on July 1, 1941. During the Great Patriotic War it assisted as a armed forces airbase, and then the rider service set about.
The field has 2 cross landing track of 3000 m and 3060 m in length. Each landing track is 60 m broad with 10-meter broad safety shoulders on each side. The landing track's joint capacity is 60 aircraft motilities per 60 minute. The airport has 2 rider depots (International depot B and domestic depot two), 1 civil aviation depot (for charter business voyages), 1 freight depot and 60 aircraft stand up. The airport is able to manage a maximal figure of 3,000 riders per 60 minute. 4,000 individuals are used at the airport. The Tupolev retread installation is also turn up at Vnukovo.
A VIP hallway was fit out at Vnukovo Airport, and it is used by many political leaders and eminent mortals seeing Russia. The Russian President also uses the VIP installation at Vnukovo Airport.
History
Vnukovo Airport was used for armed forces functioning during the Second World War. The airport got a civilian airport after the conflict. On September 15, 1956, the Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner fulfill its 1st rider voyage from Moscow Vnukovo to Irkutsk via Omsk.
On November 4, 1957, the Romanian Workers' Party, consisting the most prominent politicians of Communist Romania (Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Chivu Stoica, Alexandru Moghioroş, Ştefan Voitec, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Leonte Răutu, and Grigore Preoteasa), was regarded in an accident at Vnukovo Airport; Preoteasa, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the clip, was assassination, as was the aircraft's crew. Several others were in earnest wound.
The 1st rider voyage of Ilyushin IL-18 (Moscow to Alma-Ata, on April 20, 1956) and Tupolev Tu-114 (Moscow to Khabarovsk on April 24, 1961) were also carry out from Vnukovo Airport. In 1980, Vnukovo Airport was spread out because of the 22nd Summer Olympic Games. In 1993, Vnukovo Airport got a joint-stock corporation.
Future enlargement
A massive reconstruction and strategical development programme get down at Vnukovo International in late 2003, coming after the transport by the Federal Government of the command hazard in the airport to the Government of Moscow.
The prospective development programme is thought to last until the yr 2015 and is directed at transforming Vnukovo International into a extremely competitory air transportation system hub of international significance. One that would offer a comprehensive bush of characteristic services to both its riders and renter bearers.
As division of the Airport Strategic Development Plan the coming after labors have been finished at Vnukovo International between 2003 and 2005.
April 2004 : New Terminal B was opened. The depot now deals international riders whereas in the time to come it will be changed over to deal domestic voyages or execute anybody other committed operate to be find out at a after date. The Terminal’s aggregative floor infinite offering stand up at 80,000 square meter allowing for the one-year rider throughput capacity of 4 million.
August 2005 : Vnukovo Express was opened: an inter-modal, direct velocity line linking Vnukovo Airport with Kiyevsky Rail Terminal business district Moscow was established. The move takes 35 min..
A new international rider Terminal A (due to be finished in 2008) will have a aggregative floor infinite offer of 250,000 square meter and rider throughput capacity of 7800 kiss of peace. per 60 minute, amount to 18-20 million riders to be assisted by the airport each year. This will open up a embarrassment of chances for the renter air hose to spread out and radically ameliorate the characteristic of their client service at the airport and secure the unveiling of international-quality service and comfortableness aggregative. The sprawling depot construction shall be turn up on the location of the being domestic rider depot and will also assist as a springboard for the subsequent development of the entire adjacent landside area both next to the Terminal and farther out toward Vnukovo Settlement. The oldest of the Vnukovo rider depots dating dorsum to 1941 shall be take down by the clip the building of the new 1 plows ahead (it set about to be take down in November 2005). The being Domestic Terminal two built in the late 1970s will elongate in functioning until its eventual take down during the last stage of building and replacing with the new depot.
The enlargement programs include continuing 1 of the 2 V-shaped landing track (3,000m and 3,060m long) to 3,800m and upgrading the instrument districting system from the present CAT II to CAT III. Of the 3 Moscow airports, Vnukovo is the highest, 204m above sea stage, and therefore in example of fog it has often assisted as an jump airport. Apart from this, the operators like to emphasis the fact that, due to its geographical place, the winging clip for Western air hose is ten to 20 min. shorter than to the other Moscow airports, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, which averages that each aircraft winging from Vnukovo will burn down small fuel. The being taxi strip are to be continued as division of the enlargement and new 1 will also be made, alongside with a trade name new control tower, an extension to the freight depot and a multi-storey auto parkland.
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