Ust-Nera Airport guide

Ust-Nera Airport (ICAO UEMT) serves the mining settlement of Ust-Nera in the Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. It sits on the left bank of the Indigirka River, on the outskirts of Indigirsky settlement, about 7 km from Ust-Nera, at an elevation of roughly 524 m. The region is one of the coldest inhabited areas on earth, and the airport is the main year-round link to the rest of Yakutia.

The site began as a seaplane base at the mouth of the Nera River in 1937, set up for a geological expedition. The airfield took the name Ust-Nera in 1951, when a gravel runway and an airport building were built. Since November 2007 a branch of the federal enterprise Airports of the North has run it. The single gravel runway, 08/26, is about 1,530 m long and 60 m wide. It takes light and medium aircraft such as the An-24, An-26, An-72, Yak-40 and L-410, plus helicopters of all types.

A new passenger terminal opened in 2010. Yakutia Airlines flies the scheduled service to Yakutsk, the only destination listed. Traffic is small, at about 12,500 passengers in 2017.