Airport Kazan Biography

It was located south of the city, in the area of ​​the village of Gorki, now the village of Old Gorki in the territory of the Volga region, west of the Gorki housing estate and was called the “Air Forces of Kazan”. Under his leadership, the construction of the air government was carried out. Bychkova, who tragically died three days earlier in a plane crash. The first regular flight on the Moscow -Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan route with six passengers and post office took place on June 30.

The flight duration was five and a half hours. At first, this route was served by the Junkers F. AK-1 AK-1 Latvian shooter in Kazan. At the end of July, the passenger line of Moscow - Kazan - Sverdlovsk was opened, on August 1 it was extended to Novosibirsk through Kurgan and Omsk, and on September 18 - to Irkutsk through Krasnoyarsk and Nizhneudinsk. In the year, passenger flights from Kazan began to be executed at night.

By the beginning of the x, the Kazan air station became small for developing transportation. She had no opportunity for territorial expansion and development. And therefore, it was decided to build a new airport in the Arskoye field east of the city. In the year, survey work begins here, and soon the construction of the airport. And in the same year he begins to accept planes, despite the fact that his construction ended only in the year.

Since the year, the old air station Kazan has ceased its work. With the beginning of the construction of the new airport and the transfer of regular airlines here, at first, it was also called the “Kazan Association”, but in everyday speech it was most often called an airfield in the Arsky field. However, by the mid -thirties, the air gates of Kazan began to be called an airport.

In the thirties, a capital building of the Angara for aircraft and a two -story wooden building of the airport terminal and airport services have not yet been preserved at the airport have not yet been preserved. The hangar of the thirties of construction at the Kazan Airport, the second half of the seventies. The Kazan airport receives great development after the Great Patriotic War: its geographical location on the Trans-Siberian and Central Asian Air Forces makes it an airport of intermediate landing Il and Li-2, following from Moscow and Leningrad to Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Beijing, Ulan-Bator, Tashkent, Alma-Ata.

The first An-2 aircraft appeared in Kazan in February. The plane with the registration sign of the USSR, was driven from the Kyiv aircraft factor as deputy commander of the squadron of the special exception of the Kazan flight unit M. Otochits, the pilot of D. Konzchikov and aircraft technician A. The air terminal building was performed according to one typical project with airports of the Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chita airports.

I said this earlier in the article about the old Krasnoyarsk airport. The building of the airport airport Kazan. Then, in the year, a hotel for flight crews and transit passengers was built and commissioned at the airport. In the year, a trolleybus line was extended to Kazan Airport. Just as in Krasnoyarsk, the trolleybus route to the airport was at number 2.

It also began at the railway station, and ended at the airport. Photo by N. Yusupov Pastvu. A division of two-engine aircraft was headed by a first-class pilot A. Among the first commanders of Li-2 and Il were: P. Ivanov, E. Mousez, A. Dementiev, Yu. Kirillov, V. is a refueling Il on the platform of the Kazan airport. All work to prepare for the reception of new aircraft was headed by the chief of the airport F.

Ustinov, a veteran of Aeroflot, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a gentleman of many combat awards. This flight laid the foundation for the reception and operation of gas turbine equipment in Kazan. Academy of Sciences at the platform of the Kazan Airport. Photo from the magazine "Civil Aviation". From that moment on, the large fleet of Kazan silt is transferred to secondary passenger lines, including in the republic.

Moreover, the number of flights to Chelny per day reached twelve. A fragment of the schedule of the movement of aircraft on local airlines from the Kazan airport for the year. From my collection. For such a passenger flow, the expansion of airport areas was urgently required.

Therefore, in the late sixties, the construction of a one-story building of local airlines began on the side of the south-west side of the airport square. The opening of the local airline airport took place on May 15. There is a construction of the airport terminal of local airlines, the source is Wikipedia. In the year, a new, more modern and spacious five -story building of the hotel was built.

Now this is the hostel building at ul. Patrice Lumumba, passenger traffic by the Kazan airport in the sixties grew multiple. So, if in the year the airport sent only 10 passengers, then in the year already, in the year - in the year Kazan sent a millionth passenger for the first time, and a one and a half millionth line was overcome in the year.As in the history of Krasnoyarsk, the location of the Kazan Airport within the city with the city’s rapidly approaching it, put a cross on the expansion of the airport and made me think about the construction of a new one outside the city.

TU takes off to the southeast towards the Street of Guards. Kazan, the seventies. Therefore, in the year, the construction of a new airport has begun 26 kilometers southeast of the city near the village of Kolubishch in the territory of the Laishevsky district. The new airport accepted the first passengers in September. Then, at the old airport, the operation of TU aircraft at first was stopped, the old airport was called the Kazan airport, and the new airport was called Kazan-2 airport.

Av and Yak air detachments remained at the old airport, and new turboprop aircraft for local Airlines of the Czechoslovak production of LUVP began to arrive in the year. At the new airport, TU was based and flights were made on Il aircraft, the one and the other departments of the country. Through the old airport, flights were made to AN, L and Yak at the end of the year from the old airport to the new one transferred to the AN and Yak from that moment on the city airport only L and AN Airports renamed.

The new one was now called “Kazan”, and the old “Kazan-2”. Permon of Kazan Airport. Echoing half of the seventies. Airplanes at the old airport in the year. The author of the photo is Alexey Yashin, the source is VK. The author of the photo is Semyon Smolkin, the source is VK. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a collapse of air transportation inside the country.

This was especially affected by local airlines. The old airport slowly fell into decay. In the nineties, airports were based at the airport and passenger flights in the Republic of Tatarstan were carried out. When I lived in Kazan in the years from the old airport, only two flights on aircraft of l in Bugulma and Begishevo were operated. The source is indicated in the photo.

Finally, passenger transportation was discontinued in the year. And in the year the old airport was closed for flights. After the closure, its territory was given for development. In the year, the Kazan International equestrian complex was opened at the airport. He occupied 91 hectares of the central part of the former flight field. Since the year, the construction of the Seventh Sky residential microdistrict began on the territory of the former airport.

View of the air terminal building. Photo source - Wikipedia. In the postwar years, the following aircraft were based in the old Kazan airport: An-2-