Mineralnye Vody Airport

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The Mineralnye Vody airport (Russian Аэропорт Минеральные Воды ) is an international airport in the Stavropol region in southern Russia. It is located near the center city Mineralnye Vody and is considered the largest passenger airport in the Russian Caucasus region.

Location and characteristics of

The airport is located in the south of the Stavropol region and only a few kilometers from the city Mineralnye Vody railway station, which is considered as a major railway junction in the Caucasus foothills. For this reason, includes the catchment area of the airport of Mineralnye Vody especially the southern Stavropol region ( including the metropolitan area Caucasian mineral waters with major resorts such as Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk ) and the neighboring republics of Karachay -Cherkessia, Kabardino -Balkaria, North Ossetia and Chechnya.

Mineralnye Vody is the home airport of the airline Kavminvodyavia that of regular here flights to Moscow ( Vnukovo and Domodedovo ), Saint Petersburg and Yerevan, as well as international charter flights (eg in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus) offers. Other airlines include Aeroflot Armavia, Azerbaijan Airlines, Rossiya and UTair.

With the center or the railway station of the city Mineralnye Vody airport is connected by two minibus lines. One of them even goes to the bus station of the city, consisting of the connections made in many places in southern Russia.

History

The airport was established in 1925 as a small airfield and in 1933 received the status of an airport after there is a small reception building and workshops were built. With the growing popularity of the Caucasus resorts in the postwar period, the importance of the airport rose. The first passenger jet airliner was on May 14, 1961 there dispatched with a Tupolev Tu -104.

In the 1990s Mineralnye Vody received the status of an international airport. In the 2000s the airport's infrastructure was modernized and an international terminal set.