Cherskiy Airport guide

Cherskiy Airport sits beside the settlement of Chersky in the Nizhnekolymsky district of the Sakha Republic, on a spit of the Panteleikha River near the mouth of the Kolyma. The ICAO code is UESS and the local time zone is UTC+11. Chersky is a remote Arctic port, and flights from the airport run to Yakutsk. The settlement lies about 1 km north of the airfield, which is operated by the federal state enterprise Airports of the North.

The first airport staff arrived in August 1940, and the aviation enterprise here later supported the drifting polar stations from 1968. The current state enterprise Chersky Airport was formed in 2001 from the Chersky branch of Polar Airlines.

The main runway, 13/31, is about 1,700 m long. A second strip, 03/21, is iced over in winter. The airfield takes An-series transport aircraft, the Yak-40 and helicopters of all types. Passenger numbers have fallen in recent years, from 8,351 in 2014 to 6,829 in 2017.