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Penza Vissarion Belinsky Airport Аэропорт Пенза имени В. Г. Белинского
IATA: PEZ ICAO: UWPP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Penza Airport
Serves	Penza
Location	Penza, Russia
Elevation AMSL	604 ft / 181 m
Coordinates	53°06′44.4″N 45°00′56.7″E / 53.112333°N 45.015750°E / 53.112333; 45.015750
Website	airport58.ru
Map
PEZLocation of airport in Penza Oblast
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 11/29 9,186 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 181,000

Penza Vissarion Belinsky Airport (IATA: PEZ, ICAO: UWPP) (also referred to as Ternovka Airport or Penza South Airport) is a small airport in Penza Oblast, Russia, located 10 km south of Penza. It is a civilian airport with modest apron space.

History

Air transportation in the Penza region began in 1936. In 1939, a Civil Air Fleet airport was opened next to the village Ternovka, which accepted transit flights. The passenger terminal was built in 1963, first reconstructed partially in the 1970s and 80s, then completely in 2003. An artificial runway was built in the early 1970s. In the 1980s, during the summer vacation season, the airport received and sent more than 60 flights per day and was connected by flights to dozens of airports in the USSR, to most of the capitals of the Union republics. In the crisis 1990s, the geography of flights from Penza began to decline sharply, and by the fall of 1998 regular flights had ceased. From 1999 to 2003, the airport worked only in the summer months: regular transit flights were served from Saransk to St. Petersburg, Sochi and, in some years, to Mineralnye Vody.

In autumn 2003, the airport received a second wind: the passenger terminal was completely renovated, and regular flights to Moscow on the Yak-40 were resumed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from mid-October. Since 2004, the frequency of flights has increased to 5 times a week: from Monday to Friday. In the summer, transit flights to Sochi and St. Petersburg continued to open every year.

Airlines and destinations

References

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3. Пассажиропоток аэропорта Пензы вырос на 28%
4. Камордин В. В. Транспорт воздушный
5. Liu, Jim (14 April 2020). "Aeroflot resumes 3 domestic routes from June 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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7. "В июле запустят авиарейсы из Пензы в московский аэропорт Жуковский". www.penza-press.ru (in Russian). Пенза Пресс. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
8. "Из Пензы в Москву запустят еще один авиарейс". Пенза-Обзор - новости Пензы и Пензенской области (in Russian). 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
9. "Аэрофлот открыл продажу на рейсы «России» Пенза – Екатеринбург". www.rossiya-airlines.com (in Russian). «Rossiya airlines» JSC. Retrieved 3 November 2023.

External links

Media related to Penza Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Penza Airport Official Website (in English and Russian)

• Airports built in the Soviet Union
• Airports in Penza Oblast