Airport in Karachay-Cherkessia

History

2024: Airport construction begins

On April 23, 2024, information appeared that the Airports of the Regions holding was starting the construction of the first airport in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (KCR). The implementation of the project will cost approximately 25 billion rubles.

As of 2024, Karachay-Cherkessia is the only region of the North Caucasus where there is no air harbor of its own. Meanwhile, the appearance of such an object is expected to increase the number of tourists in the region by about half by 2030. The head of the KCR Rashid Temrezov announced plans to build an airport at the end of 2023. As potential investors in the government, structures close to Roman Trotsenko, Oleg Deripaska, the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev, were discussed.

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They plan to build an air harbor near the village of Zelenchukskaya. The airport is expected to be international, with a 3.2 km runway. Pre-project proposals for the construction of the facility, as noted by Kommersant the newspaper "," by order of JSC UK "Airports of the Regions" was carried out by FSUE GPI and NII GA "Aeroproekt." Construction the airport, it is argued, should not have a negative impact "on objects, the AEROSPACE FORCES Ministry of Defense of Russia optical telescope of the SAO RAS and the Ratan-600 radio telescope," which are located in the immediate vicinity of the site for the future complex.

RBC reports that airports in the regions of the North Caucasus district are experiencing increased loads and record traffic growth amid the closure of 11 airports in the south and central Russia part from 2022. At the same time, some experts say that it will be possible to recoup the project of a new air harbor in the KCR only if countries Europe remain closed by 2030.^[1]

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