Iturup Airport guide

Iturup Airport sits on the Pacific side of Iturup, the largest island in the Kuril chain, in the Sakhalin Oblast. It is also known as Yasny. The airport is the island's only civil airfield and serves the town of Kurilsk and the nearby settlements of Reydovo and Kitovoe.

It replaced the old Burevestnik airfield, a military base about 60 km from Kurilsk by road whose coastal site was often closed by fog. Construction ran from 2007 to 2014. The first scheduled flight landed on 22 September 2014 with 50 passengers on board, making it the first airport built from scratch in post-Soviet Russia.

The single runway, 13/31, is 2,300 m long and 42 m wide with a reinforced concrete surface and an instrument landing system. It takes aircraft up to the size of the Superjet 100. Aurora flies Dash 8 turboprops to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok. Traffic grew from about 4,100 passengers in 2014 to 24,400 in 2017. A paved highway links the airport to Kurilsk, and bus 111 runs between Kurilsk, the airport and Reydovo.