URKA
Anapa Vityazevo Airport
VFR
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Name
Anapa Vityazevo Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
URKA / AAQ / URKA
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
5:21 pm (MSK)
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Municipality
Krasnyi Kurgan
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Coordinates
45° 0′ 7″ N 37° 20′ 50″ E
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Elevation
176 ft (54 m MSL)
About Anapa Vityazevo Airport
Anapa Airport (Russian: аэропорт Анапа) (IATA: AAQ, ICAO: URKA), also known as Vityazevo Airport (Russian: аэропорт Витязево) is an international airport located near Vityazevo village in Anapa, Russia. It serves the resort town of Anapa, as well as Novorossiysk and Temryuk with a total population of over 400,000 people.
The airport is a part of Basel Aero, airport managing holding that also runs Sochi International Airport, Krasnodar and Gelendzhik airports.
Passenger traffic of the Anapa airport in 2013 was 739,637 people. The airport is among the top 30 of Russia's busiest airports.
Construction of a new terminal began in March 2016, and was completed in July 2017, when the new terminal building became operational.