Gelendzhik Airport Explained

Gelendzhik Airport
Nativename-A:Аэропорт Геленджик
Iata:GDZ
Icao:URKG
Pushpin Map:Russia Krasnodar Krai
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Krasnodar Krai
Pushpin Label:GDZ
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Type:Public
Location:Gelendzhik, Russia
Elevation-F:131
Coordinates:44.5725°N 38.0094°W
Website:http://www.gdz.aero/
R1-Number:01/19
R1-Length-F:10,170
R1-Length-M:3,100
R1-Surface:Asphalt

Gelendzhik Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Геленджик|Aeroport Gelendzhik) is an airport in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It serves the resort town of Gelendzhik and the much larger nearby city of Novorossiysk. The airport opened to passengers on 5 June 2010.

History

The building of a new terminal of the Gelendzhik Airport was completed in December 2021.[1]

On February 24, 2022, following the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all civilian flights to and from the airport were indefinitely suspended.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://rg.ru/2021/12/24/reg-ufo/v-gelendzhike-zaversheno-stroitelstvo-novogo-terminala-aeroporta/В Геленджике завершено строительство нового терминала аэропорта
  2. Web site: Росавиация приостановила полеты в 11 аэропортов юга России. Interfax-Tourism. ru. 2022-02-24. 2023-03-26. 2022-02-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20220227062822/https://tourism.interfax.ru/ru/news/articles/85460/.