Markovo Airport guide

Markovo Airport (ICAO UHMO) serves the village of Markovo in the Anadyrsky District of Chukotka, on the Anadyr River in the far northeast of Russia. No road links the village to the regional capital, Anadyr, so air service is the main connection to the rest of the okrug.

The airfield was built during the Second World War as a backup field on the Alsib air route, which ferried Lend-Lease aircraft from Alaska to the Soviet front. From the 1940s Markovo was one of eight stops on the Aeroflot passenger route between Moscow and Anadyr. A mixed aviation detachment was formed here in 1949.

The single runway, 09/27, is about 2,400 m long and has an unpaved gravel surface. The airport is run by the federal state enterprise Airports of Chukotka. Scheduled passenger flights are infrequent: services to Anadyr, and to the villages of Chuvanskoye and Lamutskoye, run once or twice a month, flown by Mi-8 helicopters and DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft. The airport has no terminal of the kind found at larger airports, and passenger numbers are small, between about 2,400 and 3,300 a year in the late 2010s.