Chokurdakh Airport guide

Chokurdakh Airport (ICAO UESO) serves the settlement of Chokurdakh in the Sakha Republic, on the Indigirka River in the far northeast of Russia. The airport sits about one kilometre north of the settlement, in tundra well above the Arctic Circle.

The field dates to the Second World War, when it was tied to the Alsib air route that carried aircraft from Alaska to the Soviet Union. In the 1950s it came under the Polar Aviation Directorate of the Glavsevmorput. The airport became a state unitary enterprise in 2000, and its Chokurdakh branch joined the federal state enterprise Airports of the North in 2007.

The main runway, 08/26, is about 1,800 m long and 75 m wide with an unpaved surface. A reconstruction began in 2016, and Rostekhnadzor approved the rebuilt facility on 21 December 2017, with flights continuing through the works. The upgraded airport can take Bombardier Q300 and Q400 turboprops as well as the An-24 and An-26 that have flown the route.

Scheduled service is a few flights a week to Yakutsk, with Yakutia Airlines the carrier shown on current listings. Helicopters link the airport to other settlements in the district. Annual traffic is small, between about 6,600 and 7,000 passengers in each year from 2014 to 2017.