Bovanenkovo Airport guide

Bovanenkovo Airport (ICAO: USDB) serves the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, about 40 km from the Kara Sea coast. It sits at 7 m above sea level, north of the Arctic Circle.

Gazprom Avia owns and operates the airport. The aerodrome entered Russia's State Register of Civil Aerodromes in 2012, and the first passenger flight landed on 16 October 2012. It has a single concrete runway of roughly 2,600 m, which takes medium-sized airliners. The apron has 13 aircraft stands, and the passenger terminal handles about 150 passengers per hour.

Traffic is largely shift workers and field staff for the gas project. Gazpromavia runs charters to Moscow, Tyumen, Ufa and other cities, and scheduled carriers such as Yamal Airlines, S7 Airlines and Aeroflot have served Moscow, Novosibirsk, Salekhard and Yekaterinburg. Reported passenger numbers reached about 128,800 in 2017, up from 62,350 in 2015.