Amderma Airport guide

Amderma Airport (ICAO: ULDD) serves the Arctic settlement of Amderma in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. It sits on a coastal spit about 4 km west of the settlement, roughly 1,600 km northeast of Moscow, at an elevation of 13 feet.

The airfield opened in 1935 and served both civil and military flying. From 1956 to 1993 it hosted the 72nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, which flew MiG-19P, Yak-25, Tu-128 and MiG-31 interceptors. In 1960 a MiG-19 from the base shot down a US Boeing RB-47H over the Barents Sea.

The single concrete runway is 2,600 m long and 50 m wide. It can take aircraft up to 200 tonnes, including the Il-76 and Tu-134. Civil traffic was small. Nordavia flew An-24 turboprops about twice a month on the Arkhangelsk to Naryan-Mar to Amderma route, and annual traffic fell from 1,783 passengers in 2014 to 1,476 in 2017. Russian Wikipedia records that the airport closed in February 2024 for lack of funding.