Pulkovo Airport

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Pulkovo Airport Аэропо́рт Пу́лково
IATA: LED - ICAO: ULLI
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise
Serves		St. Petersburg
Elevation AMSL		79 ft (24 m)
Coordinates		59°48′01″N, 30°15′45″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
10R/28L	12,401	3,780	Asphalt
10L/28R	11,145	3,397	Asphalt

Pulkovo Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Пу́лково) (IATA: LED, ICAO: ULLI) is the international airport serving St. Petersburg, Russia, located 16 km south of the city. Originally it was named Shosseynaya Airport. Construction began in January 1931, and was completed on June 24, 1932, with the first aircraft arriving at 17:31 that day, after a two-and-a-half hour flight from Moscow carrying passengers and mail.

In 1951 the airport terminal was redesigned to handle larger aircraft. The airport was renamed Pulkovo Airport in April 1973, and a new terminal was opened, thereby facilitating a 40%-50% increase in airport traffic between the 1970s and 1990s.

Pulkovo Airport is the 3rd busiest in Russia after Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports. The number of passengers grew from 4,837,000 in 1990 to just over 5 million in 2006. It is anticipated that by 2025 Pulkovo airport will handle 17 million passengers.

There are two passenger terminals, one cargo terminal, forty-seven aircraft stands (it is planned to increase their number to 100 by 2025), and two runways at the airport. As of the summer of 2006, one of the two runways is the only runway in Russia equipped to serve the new Airbus A380. The reconstruction of the second runway is scheduled to begin in 2007.

Terminal 1 mainly serves flights within Russia, the CIS countries and international charter flights, while Terminal 2 serves other long-haul international flights. Terminal 1 was built in 1973, whereas Terminal 2 was built in 1950s and reconstructed in 2003.

The design for the construction of the new international terminal is currently underway by a German company Hochtief Airport GmbH. The new terminal will be located directly to the north to the Terminal 1 and will contain 18 gates. The construction is planned to begin in 2008 with scheduled completion in 2010/11.

The airport is the main hub for Rossiya Airlines.

1 The worst related accidents
2 Trivia
3 Airlines and destinations
4 External links

[edit] The worst related accidents

October 13, 1972, an Ilyushin Il-62 passenger aircraft of Aeroflot flying from Shosseynaya (Pulkovo) to Sheremetyevo, Moscow, crashed in a lake during the third attempt to land in its destination point in poor weather conditions. All 174 people on board died.
April 27, 1974, an Ilyushin Il-18V passenger aircraft of Aeroflot flying to Krasnodar crashed right after take off from Pulkovo after engine fire. All 108 passengers and 10 members of crew died.
November 28, 1976, a Tupolev Tu-104B passenger flight of Aeroflot to Pulkovo from Sheremetyevo, Moscow, crashed in a few minutes after take off due to an artificial horizon failure and extremely bad weather conditions. All 67 passengers and 5 members of crew died.
June 28, 1982, a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft of Aeroflot heading tog Kiev lost control and crashed near Mozyr following the failure of the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew due to fatigue. All 124 passengers and 8 members of crew on board died in the accident. It caused major changes in the aircraft's design. Following the disaster no Yakovlev 42 aircraft was allowed to fly until late 1984.
February 1, 1985, a Tupolev Tu-134AK passenger flight of Aeroflot from Minsk to Pulkovo crashed shortly after departure. Ice ingestion caused both of its engines to flame out. 58 people out of 80 died in the accident.
June 26, 1991, an Antonov An-24 cargo aircraft of the AKF Polet company heading to Voronezh crashed in the Gulf of Finland five minutes after take off from Pulkovo. All ten people on board died.
August 22, 2006, a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger flight of Pulkovo Airlines from Anapa to Pulkovo crashed in Ukraine. All 160 passengers and 10 members of crew died. See Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612.

For a more comprehensive list, see Aviation Safety Network Entry for LED.

[edit] Trivia

In the nineties, Georgy Poltavchenko served in the department of transport security of Pulkovo as the representative of KGB Directorate of Leningrad and Leningrad Oblast. [1]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aeroflot-Nord (Arkhangelsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Milano, Münster, Palma, Vienna)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
airBaltic (Riga)
Alanja Kubar Airlines
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
Ankor
Armavia (Yerevan)
Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Novokuznetsk-Spichenkovo)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
Bashkir Airlines
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
Brussels Airlines (Brussels) [starts April 28, 2007]
Bugulma Air Enterprise (Lipetsk)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Crimea Air
Dalavia Far East Airways (Omsk)
Dagestan Airlines
El Al (Tel Aviv)
Finnair (Helsinki)
First Choice Airways (London-Luton)
Gazpromavia (Moscow-Vnukovo)
Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn)
Imair Airlines
Karthago Airlines
Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Kogalymavia (Surgut)
Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon [Summer only])
Kras Air (Krasnoyarsk)
Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
Orenair (Orenburg)
Perm Airlines (Perm)
Polet Airlines (Voronezh)
Rossiya Airlines (Adler/Sochi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Arkhangelsk, Baku, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Chelyabinsk, Dushanbe, Dusseldorf, Ekaterinburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hurghada, Irkutsk, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kaliningrad, Karaganda, Kiev-Boryspil, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Munich, Murmansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Norilsk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Samara, Sofia, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Warsaw [starts May 2007], Yekaterinburg, Yerevan)
S7 Airlines (Novosibirsk, Perm)
Saha Airlines
Samara Airlines (Samara)
Saratov Airlines (Penza)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
Severstal
Tatarstan Airlines (Kazan)
Transaero Airlines (Bangkok, Moscow-Domodedovo)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
United Air Express (London-Gatwick, London-Luton)
UT Air (Moscow-Vnukovo, Surgut, Syktyvkar)
Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
Volga-Dnepr
Windjet (Catania, Forli, Palermo)