| Kursk Vostochny Airport | |
| Nativename-A: | Аэропорт Курск-Восточный |
| Image2-Width: | 250 |
| Iata: | URS |
| Icao: | UUOK |
| Type: | Civilian, Military |
| Owner: | Russian Aerospace Forces |
| Operator: | 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army |
| Location: | Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia |
| Elevation-F: | 209m (686feet) |
| Elevation-M: | 209 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Kursk Oblast#Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Kursk Oblast, Russia |
| Pushpin Label: | Kursk Vostochny |
| Website: | aerokursk.ru |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 12/30 |
| R1-Length-F: | 8202 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2500 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Kursk Vostochny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Курск-Восточный),[1] also known as Khalino airbase, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia, with a single runway located 7 km east of Kursk. It has been used for many decades as a military airbase and has had periods of time when it was also utilized as a commercial airport. It is located 4 miles northeast of Kursk and is considered a medium-sized base, with several alert pads. A civilian tarmac is located on the southern side of the airfield, which utilizes the common runway facilities.
Khalino airbase was home to:
All commercial flight activity at the airport was banned by Russian authorities at the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, starting at 03:45 on 24 February 2022.[7]
On 6 December 2022 the airport’s oil storage caught fire. The Kursk governor blamed the fire on a drone strike amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
On 2 June 2023, Ukrainian sources reported several Su-34 combat aircraft located at the airport were damaged/destroyed, along with a single MiG-29 and a Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system. The information has not yet been verified independently.[9]
RusLine provided limited scheduled commercial service to Moscow–Vnukovo as of 2018,[10] and to Saint Petersburg and Sochi as of 2019.[11] All commercial service at the airport was halted in February 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]