Orenburg Airport

Yuri Gagarin
Orenburg International Airport
Международный Аэропорт Оренбург имени Юрия Гагарина
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorRossiya Airlines
ServesOrenburg
LocationOrenburg, Russia
Hub forOrenburzhye
Elevation AMSL387 ft / 118 m
Coordinates51°47′44.83″N 55°27′24.28″E / 51.7957861°N 55.4567444°E / 51.7957861; 55.4567444
Websitear-ren.ru
Map
REN
Location of airport in Orenburg Oblast
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 8,202 2,500 Concrete
Statistics (2023)
Passengers1,042 thousand
Sources: Orenburg Central Airport (see also 2023 statistics)[1]

Orenburg Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Оренбург) (IATA: REN, ICAO: UWOO) is a civil airport located about 25 km east of Orenburg city. Now defunct Orenair had its head office on the airport property.[2]

The airport was built at its present location in the mid-1970s. In 2011, the government of Orenburg named the airport after Yuri Gagarin.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[3]
azimuth Mineralnye Vody[4]
Ikar Sochi
IrAero Baku[5]
Nordwind Airlines Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Red Wings Airlines Yekaterinburg[6]
Rossiya Airlines Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk
Smartavia Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
UVT Aero Kazan,[7] Nizhny Novgorod

Incidents and accidents

  • On 1 March 1980, an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154A crashed on approach to the airport after deviating below a sufficient flight path and touching ground 68 meters before the runway. There were no fatalities, however the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Аэропорт Оренбург обслужил в 2023 году более 1 млн пассажиров" [Aeroport Orenburg obsluzhil v 2023 godu boleye 1 mln passazhirov 61 / 5,000 Orenburg Airport served over 1 million passengers in 2023]. www.oren.aero (in Russian). Orenburg Airport. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Contacts Archived November 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine." Orenair. Retrieved on 16 November 2012. "JSC "ORENAIR" Airport, Orenburg district, Orenburg region, 460049, Russian Federation" – Russian : "460049, Оренбургская область, Оренбургский район, Аэропорт"
  3. ^ Nekrasova, Ulyana (25 February 2026). "Летим в Шарм-эль-Шейх: с 25 февраля запущены прямые рейсы из Оренбурга". 1743.ru (in Russian). Сетевое издание "1743". Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  4. ^ Вълкова, Наталия (25 August 2025). "Рейсы в Минводы вновь откроются из оренбургского аэропорта". EANews.ru (in Russian). Российское информационное агентство «Европейско-Азиатские Новости» (ЕАН). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  5. ^ Liu, Jim. "IrAero Adds Orenburg – Baku in NS25". aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  6. ^ Liu, Jim. "Red Wings expands Ekaterinburg domestic network in Oct 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  7. ^ "С 4 мая между Казанью и Оренбургом возобновляются прямые авиарейсы". Realnoe Vremya online newspaper. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  8. ^ aviation-safety.net retrieved 8 February 2023