Khuzhir Airport

Khuzhir (Kharantsy) is an airport on Lake Baikal’s Olkhon Island servicing Khuzhir village. It's located close Kharantsy.[1]

Khuzhir (Kharantsy)

Хужир (Харанцы)
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesKhuzhir, Olkhon Island
LocationKharantsy, Olkhonsky District
 Irkutsk Oblast
 Russia
Opened1957
Time zone+8 (UTC+8:00)
Elevation AMSL1,624 ft / 495 m
Coordinates53°13′04″N 107°24′35″E
Map
UIIH
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 1,837 560 unpaved

The airport has humble facilities which were built in the middle of the 20th century.

Regular flights were cancelled in 1999, and only private planes occasionally have landed there. But even when it happened, old airport manager was keeping the runway and facilities on standby at all times on own initiative until he died in 2018. He believed regular flights from the island would be resumed.[2]

SiLa airlines has revived regular carriage of passengers from/to there just only in September 2019.[3]

Facilities

The airport is capable of taking such aircraft suited to landing on unpaved airstrips as Antonov An-2, Antonov An-28, Cessna 208 Caravan.

Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Aircraft type Notes
SiLa Ulan-Ude — Irkutsk An-28 Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday[3]

References
  1. "The simple charm of Russia's wooden airports". Traveling Hobby. 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  2. "One Man's Airport On Lake Baikal". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  3. "Flight schedule". sila-avia.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-09-28.
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