Shakhtyorsk Airport guide

Shakhtyorsk Airport serves the urban-type settlement of Shakhtyorsk and the wider Uglegorsky District on the west coast of Sakhalin. It carries the ICAO code UHSK. The nearest larger airport with scheduled service, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, lies about 250 km to the south.

Japanese forces built the airfield in the 1940s, while southern Sakhalin was under Japanese control, and it began as a military field. Civil passenger flights started in 1957. Regular service stopped in 1992, although the airport stayed open as an alternate for flights to Okha and the Kuril Islands. Regular flights resumed in 2000.

The airport has one asphalt-concrete runway, 16/34, measuring 1,625 by 35 metres. It handles turboprops such as the An-24, An-26 and L-410, along with smaller jets and helicopters, and its runway surface is asphalt concrete throughout. Aurora is the scheduled carrier, flying to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Passenger traffic is small: 8,347 passengers in 2021, up from 1,759 in 2020. Airport Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk operates the field, and the terminal is a single building handling domestic departures only.