| Semey International Airport | |
| Image2-Width: | 250 |
| Iata: | PLX |
| Icao: | UASS |
| Type: | Public |
| Operator: | JSC "Semey International Airport" |
| City-Served: | Semey |
| Location: | 10km (10miles) SW of Semey |
| Elevation-M: | 232 |
| Coordinates: | 50.3514°N 80.2344°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan |
| Pushpin Label: | PLX/UASS |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kazakhstan |
| Website: | airportsemey.kz |
| Metric-Elev: | Y |
| Metric-Rwy: | Y |
| R1-Number: | 08/26 |
| R1-Length-M: | 3,096 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 49,900 |
| Footnotes: | Source: AIP Kazakhstan[1] |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Wikidata: | yes |
Semey International Airport (Kazakh: Semei Halyqaralyq Äuejaiy), formerly New Semey (Kazakh: link=no|Jañasemei) and named after Abai Qunanbaiuly, is an airport in Semey, Kazakhstan, located 10km (10miles) south-west[1] of the city. It services large airliners. The airfield contains two groups of alert fighter pads. A 400m (1,300feet) overrun exists at each end of runway 08/26.
Established in 1929, it is Kazakhstan's oldest international airport.
In 1960, the 356th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO of the Soviet Air Defence Forces arrived at the base from Irkutsk.[2] Equipped with MiG-17s and Yak-25s, it was placed under the 33rd Air Defence Division, 14th Independent Air Defence Army. It was later equipped with both the Tupolev Tu-128 and MiG-31.
Declassified CIA documents indicate that in the late 1960s, during the height of the Sino-Soviet split, the Soviet Union used this airfield as a bomber staging base for Chinese targets, and at times the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder was identified here.