Karaganda (airport): history, current state

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Karaganda Airport was founded in 1934 by the decision of the Government of the USSR in order to provide communication with auls remote from the center of the country. The first flights here took place on PO-2 aircraft, while one aircraft could take on board up to 2 passengers or up to 200 kg of mail. Passenger communication with Almaty begins in 1937. Then the flights were carried out by PS-9 aircraft. The relocation of the airfield to the area of ​​the New City dates back to 1944, and in 1954 office premises were erected on it. An artificial turf runway was built here in 1959.

Since 1980, the construction of a new airport began, which included a modern runway, capable of receiving all types of aircraft at the present time, and an air terminal complex. The runway was built in record time, and already on 10/4/1980, the Il-62 aircraft made a technical landing at the new airport. Since that time, the active operation of the airfield sites by Tu-154 aircraft began, which connected Karaganda with major cities THE USSR. From the airport of Karaganda were carried out regular flights to Baku, Omsk, Sochi, Novosibirsk, Kyiv, Almaty, Leningrad and Moscow, as well as to other destinations.

After the formation of the new state of Kazakhstan in 1991, new requirements were put forward for the organization of air traffic, emanating from international treaties and agreements.

If in the Soviet period most flights went through Moscow, then, according to the new requirements, such a policy could not satisfy the needs of the inhabitants of Kazakhstan for air transportation. Airport "Sary-Arka" in 1992 received a temporary status of International Airport. This was the beginning of international flights from Karaganda.

Priority foreign destinations are German cities(Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Hanover, Frankfurt am Main), Sharjah (UAE), Istanbul (Turkey). There were also flights to Thailand, Iran, Syria, Pakistan and Poland. Except international destinations, preserved air traffic with the cities of Kazakhstan and the CIS countries.

After a cycle of work, in 2002 a new terminal building with an area of ​​30,000 sq.m. was put into operation. Works at the airport runway strip, the width of which is 60 m, and the length is 3300 m. It allows you to receive aircraft such as Tu-204, Il-86 and Boeing-747.

Current state international airport Karaganda

During the introduction of changes in the geography of flights, they continued to build the airport, on September 5, 1996, official opening the new Sary-Arka air terminal complex.

Today Sary-Arka Airport is a modern airport complex and has high operational and specifications, which correspond international standards. The airport has great prospects for development. The facility operates around the clock, the work of customs, border and sanitary-quarantine control is established here. Passengers can use a comfortable waiting room, a left-luggage office, a first-aid post, a room for mother and child, as well as visit a prayer room, an express bar or a restaurant. The terminal has CIP and VIP lounges. The terminal area is equipped with modern video surveillance systems, as well as screening equipment that allows you to carefully examine passengers and their luggage. From the airport, regular Passenger Transportation to the cities of Kazakhstan, the countries of the near and far abroad. The operators are the following airlines: Domodedovo Airlines, Transaero, Rossiya (Russian Federation), Air Astana (Kazakhstan) and others.

Basic data of Karaganda airport:

• Airport country: Kazakhstan.
• GMT time zone (summer/winter): +6/+6.
• Airport coordinates: longitude 73.33, latitude 49.67.
• Geographical location: 20 km north-west of Karaganda.
• Number of airport terminals: 1.

Karaganda International Airport). Official site:

Sary-Arka is one of largest airports In Kazakhstan. The city to which it belongs is Karaganda. This airport has international status. And it can also boast that it accepts aircraft of any class and severity. How to get from the airport to the city or to reverse direction? What services await passengers in the terminal halls? Where can you fly from Karaganda? All these questions will be answered by our article.

History of the old airport

February 1934 - it was then that Karaganda acquired its own hub. The airport was then located in the city, moreover, almost in the center. The first flights were made to Alma-Ata on U2 aircraft, and then on ANT-9. Only in 1944, the airport was taken out of the center, into the so-called New town. But due to hard times, it was used as air force base. It was only in 1954 that the construction of premises for the needs of civil aviation began. Five years later, a runway and a one-story terminal were built. This hub was named "Karaganda".

The airport received the first "heavy" Il-18 from Alma-Ata in 1961. With the commissioning of liners of this design, the flight to Moscow was reduced to four hours. In 1963, a hotel was built near the terminal for transit passengers. And in 1973, a one-story building of services was attached to new terminal. By the end of the seventies, Karaganda was connected by regular air traffic with more than 50 cities. Soviet Union.

History of Sary-Arka Airport

In 1980, the construction of a new air terminal complex took place in record time. This time already far away - twenty-two kilometers from the city. In November, the runway of the hub received the Il-62 from Alma-Ata. The old airport "Karaganda" served as a military base for ten years. The helicopter part was located here. Then the hub was closed. now ex runway is part of the highway, and the buildings housed the car market. Back when new airport built, it was temporarily given the status of an international one and was given the name of Sary-Arka. But modern look hub purchased later. In 1996, the official opening of the terminal took place. Commissioned six years later new complex, which fully complies with the requirements for international air harbors. In particular, a runway 3,300 meters long and sixty meters wide was built. It is capable of receiving aircraft of all types, including Boeing-747, Il-86 and Tu-204.

Modern airport amenities

The international harbor has high technical and operational characteristics. Sary-Arka Airport operates around the clock. There are services of border, customs, sanitary-quarantine, inspection control. The entire territory of the complex is equipped with a video surveillance system. A lot is being done for the convenience of passengers. So, in addition to the usual waiting rooms, there are VIP and CIP zones. There is a special room for mothers with children. A restaurant and an express bar are open to passengers and those who meet them. There is even a prayer room with everything you need to perform namaz. Of course, a left-luggage office, a first-aid post and help desk the airport of Karaganda is also equipped. The phone number of the information service can be found on the official website. There is a car park on the square in front of the terminal. The airport management is doing everything to avoid queues at the screening service. It is estimated that the throughput air harbor- one thousand two hundred passengers per hour.

Scoreboard airport Karaganda

The base of the airline "Zhezkazgan-Air" is located here. Also, the services of the airport are regularly used by such carriers as Air Astana, Rossiya, Transaero, Domodedovo Airlines and others. Since there are only two hundred kilometers to Astana from Karaganda, liners do not fly there. But they are very frequent flights V old capital country - Alma-Ata. Flights are operated by Air Astana, SCAT and QAZAQ. There are also regular flights to Zhezkazgan, Kyzylorda and other cities of Kazakhstan. From Karaganda you can fly to Ust-Kamenogorsk, Moscow (Shermetyevo) and Istanbul. In addition to this, there are charter flights heading mainly to cities Western Europe and resorts in Southeast Asia.

How to get to the city

The new terminal is located twenty-two kilometers southeast of Karaganda. How to overcome this distance to get to the city? Of course, the most convenient and fast view transport is a taxi. But if you want to get to the city in a more budgetary way, take a scheduled bus"Karaganda - airport". The stop is located at the exit of the terminal. Destination this route in the city is the bus station "Yugo-Vostok". It is certainly not the center. Then you will need to change to other modes of transport in order to get to the place you need. Yes, and buses from the air harbor and in the opposite direction run quite rarely - once every two hours.

What to do if the flight is canceled

If the flight was canceled more than 24 hours before departure, then passengers are transferred to similar flights of the airline. The costs are borne by the carrier, the service is free for the passenger. If none of the options offered by the airline suits you, most airlines can issue a "forced refund". After confirmation by the airline, the money will be returned to your account. Sometimes this may take several weeks.

How to check in at the airport

Online check-in is available on the websites of most airlines. Most often, it opens 23 hours before the start of the flight. You can go through it no later than 1 hour before the departure of the aircraft.

To check in at the airport you will need:

• the identity card specified in the order,
• birth certificate when traveling with children,
• printed itinerary receipt(optional).

• What can you take on a plane

  Hand luggage is the items that you take with you on the plane. Weight norm hand luggage can vary from 5 to 10 kg, and its size most often should not exceed the sum of three dimensions (length, width and height) from 115 to 203 cm (depending on the airline). A handbag is not considered hand luggage and is carried freely.

  The bag that you take with you on the plane should not contain knives, scissors, medicines, aerosols, cosmetics. Alcohol from stores duty free can only be carried in sealed bags.

  How to pay for luggage at the airport

  If the baggage weight exceeds the norms established by the airline (most often - 20-23 kg), you need to pay for each kilogram of excess. In addition, many Russian and foreign airlines, as well as low-cost airlines, have tariffs that do not include free transportation luggage and must be paid separately as an additional service.

  Baggage must be checked in at the airport at a separate drop-off check-in counter. If you are unable to print boarding pass, you can get it at the usual check-in counter of the airline, and check in and check in your luggage there.

  Where to find out the arrival time if you are a greeter

  You can find out the time of arrival of the aircraft on the online scoreboard of the airport. The Tutu.ru website has an online scoreboard of the main Russian and foreign airports.

  You can find out the exit (gate) number on the arrivals board at the airport. This number is located next to the arrival flight information.

Sary-Arka- an airport located 22 km southeast of Karaganda and 200 km from Astana. One of the largest airports in Kazakhstan.

Story

The first Karaganda airport was created in February 1934. Initially, flights were carried out on U-2 aircraft, and since 1937 regular flights began passenger traffic with Alma-Ata on ANT-9 aircraft.

In 1944, the airport was relocated to the "New City" area, and in 1954 the construction of office premises began.

In 1959, an artificial turf runway and a one-story airport building were built, the airport was named "Karaganda (City)".

The first Il-18 (tail number 75689) from Alma-Ata landed on a concrete runway in the summer of 1961. He was met, among other things, by the twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Talgat Yakubovich Begeldinov (Alma-Ata). With the advent of the Il-18, the flight time to Moscow was reduced to 4 hours. 20 minutes. (until the summer of 1961, IL-14s flew to Moscow with intermediate landings in Kokchetav, Petropavlovsk, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Kazan with total time flight - about 15 hours.). First scheduled airlines on IL-18 were the following: flights No. 104/103 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Moscow and back (1961); in 1962 flights No. 151/152 Tashkent-Karaganda-Omsk and back; No. 765/766 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Mineralnye Vody-Adler (Sochi) and back, flight No. 961/962 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Kuibyshev-Kyiv and back; 1963 (January) opening of flight No. 367/368 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Sverdlovsk-Leningrad and back, and in 1965 this flight was supplemented, alternating by days of the week with landings in Kazan and Chelyabinsk; 1964: flight No. 1063/1064 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Rostov-Simferopol and back; flight No. 741/742 Frunze (Bishkek)-Karaganda-Novosibirsk and back and in 1967, flight No. 3779/3780 Alma-Ata-Karaganda-Ufa-Riga and back was opened by the Latvian Civil Aviation Administration.

Since the autumn of 1963, the operation of the new An-24 aircraft began on republican airlines. First of all, flights were opened to Pavlodar and Semipalatinsk, and then, within 2-3 years, they began to fly to Ust-Kamenogorsk, Petropavlovsk, Dzhezkazgan, Kokchetav, Uralsk, Aktyubinsk, Guryev (Atyrau), Arkalyk, Alma-Ata, Chimkent , Dzhambul, Balkhash, Shevchenko (Aktau), Novosibirsk, Kemerovo. All open airlines functioned on a regular basis, for decades and all year round.

In 1963, the Start Hotel for transit passengers was opened next to the airport building.

In 1973, a new terminal was opened, attached to the one-story airport building.

By the end of the 1970s, direct regular air traffic connected Karaganda with more than 50 cities of the USSR.

In 1980, construction began on a new airport, called "Karaganda (Central)", the construction of the runway was completed in the same year, in record time, in six months. On November 4, 1980, the first Il-62 airliner (airborne - 86694) from Alma-Ata landed on the runway of the airfield, commander - Honored Pilot of the USSR Maryshev B.

In the mid 1980s civil Aviation was relocated from the "Gorodskoy" airfield to the new "Central" airfield. Until the early 1990s, the Gorodskoy airfield was used as a military one (a helicopter unit was based here), then it was closed. Today, the building of the old air terminal is located deep within the city, and a highway runs along the former runway of the Gorodskoy airfield.

In 1992, the airport "Central" was given the status of an international airport and the name "Sary-Arka".

The airport is now owned by a private company that has announced its intention to bring the airport up to the latest international standards and lengthen the runway.

Accepted aircraft types

All types aircraft. Maximum takeoff weight aircraft without restrictions. Runway Classification Number (PCN) 64/R/A/W/T.

Passenger traffic

Incidents

legends

According to some sources (oral testimonies of former employees of the Karaganda airport), the runway of the airfield could be used as one of the alternate airfields for landing the spaceplane of the Soviet reusable transport space system Buran. However, according to official data, there were only two suitably equipped alternate airfields for landing the Buran orbital spacecraft: Khorol (in the central part of Primorsky Krai, south of the lake Khanka) and "Western Alternate Airfield" (in the Crimea, near Simferopol).

The creation of other alternate airfields, especially so close to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, seems technically unjustified, since the orbiter had sufficient aerodynamic quality (i.e., it could glide far) to reach one of the three airfields (including the main landing airfield "Yubileiny" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome ) .

Archeology

In the area of ​​Sary-Arka, not far from Karaganda, the expedition of the Saryarka Archaeological Institute unearthed a stepped mausoleum of the Begazy-Dandybay culture of the Late Bronze Age. Scientists believe that the mausoleum was erected in Sary-Arka more than 3 thousand years ago.

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Airport "Sary-Arka" at night

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Airport "Sary-Arka" at night

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Departure hall international lines

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Departure hall internal lines

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Airport interior

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Passenger Transportation

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Meanwhile, the city itself was empty. There was hardly anyone on the streets. The gates and shops were all locked; in some places, near the taverns, lonely cries or drunken singing were heard. No one traveled the streets, and footsteps of pedestrians were rarely heard. On Povarskaya it was completely quiet and deserted. In the huge yard of the Rostovs' house, there were scraps of hay, droppings of a convoy that had left, and not a single person was visible. In the Rostovs' house, which was left with all its goodness, two people were in a large living room. They were the janitor Ignat and the Cossack Mishka, Vasilyich's grandson, who remained in Moscow with his grandfather. Mishka opened the clavichords and played them with one finger. The janitor, akimbo and smiling joyfully, stood in front of a large mirror.
- That's clever! A? Uncle Ignat! said the boy, suddenly clapping both hands on the keys.
- Look you! answered Ignat, marveling at how his face was smiling more and more in the mirror.
- Shameless! Right, shameless! - the voice of Mavra Kuzminishna, who quietly entered, spoke from behind them. - Eka, fat watchman, he bares his teeth. To take you! Everything is not tidied up there, Vasilyich is knocked off his feet. Give it time!
Ignat, straightening his belt, ceasing to smile and meekly lowering his eyes, went out of the room.
“Aunty, I’ll take it easy,” said the boy.
- I'll give you a little. Shooter! shouted Mavra Kuzminishna, waving her hand at him. - Go build a samovar for your grandfather.
Mavra Kuzminishna, brushing off the dust, closed the clavichords and, with a heavy sigh, went out of the drawing room and locked the front door.
Going out into the yard, Mavra Kuzminishna thought about where she should go now: should I drink tea with Vasilyich in the wing or tidy up everything that had not yet been tidied up in the pantry?
Footsteps were heard in the quiet street. The steps stopped at the gate; the latch began to knock under the hand that tried to unlock it.
Mavra Kuzminishna went up to the gate.
- Who do you need?
- Count, Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov.
- Who are you?
- I'm an officer. I would like to see, - said a Russian pleasant and lordly voice.
Mavra Kuzminishna unlocked the gate. And a round-faced officer, about eighteen years old, with a type of face similar to the Rostovs, entered the yard.
- Let's go, father. They deigned to leave at Vespers yesterday,” said Mavra Kuzmipisna affectionately.
The young officer, standing at the gate, as if hesitant to enter or not to enter, clicked his tongue.
“Oh, what a shame!” he said. - I wish yesterday ... Oh, what a pity! ..
Mavra Kuzminishna, meanwhile, carefully and sympathetically examined the familiar features of the Rostov breed in the face young man, and the torn overcoat, and the worn boots that were on him.
Why did you need a count? she asked.
– Yeah… what to do! - the officer said with annoyance and took hold of the gate, as if intending to leave. He again hesitated.
– Do you see? he suddenly said. “I am related to the count, and he has always been very kind to me. So, you see (he looked at his cloak and boots with a kind and cheerful smile), and he wore himself, and there was nothing; so I wanted to ask the count ...
Mavra Kuzminishna did not let him finish.
- You could wait a minute, father. One minute, she said. And as soon as the officer released his hand from the gate, Mavra Kuzminishna turned and with a quick old woman's step went to the backyard to her outbuilding.
While Mavra Kuzminishna was running towards her, the officer, lowering his head and looking at his torn boots, smiling slightly, walked around the yard. “What a pity that I did not find my uncle. What a nice old lady! Where did she run? And how can I find out which streets are closer for me to catch up with the regiment, which should now approach Rogozhskaya? thought the young officer at that time. Mavra Kuzminishna, with a frightened and at the same time resolute face, carrying a folded checkered handkerchief in her hands, came out around the corner. Before reaching a few steps, she, unfolding her handkerchief, took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble note and hastily gave it to the officer.
- If their excellencies were at home, it would be known, they would, for sure, by kindred, but maybe ... now ... - Mavra Kuzminishna became shy and confused. But the officer, without refusing and without haste, took the paper and thanked Mavra Kuzminishna. “As if the count were at home,” Mavra Kuzminishna kept saying apologetically. - Christ be with you, father! God save you, - said Mavra Kuzminishna, bowing and seeing him off. The officer, as if laughing at himself, smiling and shaking his head, ran almost at a trot through the empty streets to catch up with his regiment to the Yauzsky bridge.
And Mavra Kuzminishna stood for a long time with wet eyes in front of the closed gate, shaking her head thoughtfully and feeling an unexpected surge of maternal tenderness and pity for the unknown officer.

In the unfinished house on Varvarka, at the bottom of which there was a drinking house, drunken screams and songs were heard. There were about ten factory workers sitting on benches by the tables in a small, dirty room. All of them, drunk, sweaty, with cloudy eyes, tensing up and opening their mouths wide, sang some kind of song. They sang apart, with difficulty, with an effort, obviously not because they wanted to sing, but only to prove that they were drunk and walking. One of them, a tall blond fellow in a clean blue coat, stood over them. His face, with a thin, straight nose, would have been beautiful, if not for thin, pursed, constantly moving lips and cloudy, frowning, motionless eyes. He stood over those who were singing, and, apparently imagining something, solemnly and angularly waved over their heads a white hand rolled up to the elbow, whose dirty fingers he unnaturally tried to spread out. The sleeve of his chuyka was constantly going down, and the fellow diligently rolled it up again with his left hand, as if there was something especially important in the fact that this white sinewy waving arm was always naked. In the middle of the song, shouts of a fight and blows were heard in the hallway and on the porch. The tall fellow waved his hand.