Batagay Airport guide

Batagay Airport serves the urban-type settlement of Batagay, the administrative centre of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, in north-eastern Siberia. It lies on the Yana River at about 212 m elevation, roughly 2.5 km southeast of the settlement. The ICAO code is UEBB.

The airfield has a main gravel-sand runway, 05/23, measuring 2,000 by 75 m. A shorter gravel runway, 12/30, is 650 by 60 m. Federal state enterprise Airports of the North operates the airport, which is open around the clock. It handles Class 3 and 4 aircraft, including the An-24, An-26, An-72, L-410, Yak-40 and DHC-8 Q400, and helicopters of all types.

Scheduled flying is limited to Yakutsk, flown by Polar Airlines and Yakutia. Traffic is small. The airport recorded about 26,200 passengers in 2014 and 29,300 in 2017. Winters here are among the coldest in the northern hemisphere, and the airport is the main year-round link between the district and the rest of Russia.