Olyokminsk Airport guide

Olyokminsk Airport serves the town of Olyokminsk, the administrative centre of Olyokminsky District in the Sakha Republic, in eastern Siberia. It lies about 5 km northeast of the town at roughly 220 m elevation. The ICAO code is UEMO.

The main runway, 08/26, measures 1,900 m. Russian sources describe it as asphalt, while English sources list grass strips. The airport takes Class 3 and 4 aircraft, including the An-24, An-26, An-72, An-140, Il-114, Yak-40 and L-410, and helicopters of all types. Federal state enterprise Airports of the North operates it.

Scheduled flights run to Yakutsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and Neryungri, flown by Polar Airlines, Yakutia, Angara and KrasAvia. Traffic grew from about 24,000 passengers in 2014 to 33,700 in 2017. During World War II the airfield was a stop on the Alsib ferry route, and more than 8,000 combat aircraft flown from the United States passed through it on the way to the front.