BKA airport transcript. Ramenskoye Airport: “test” instead of opening? Airplane tickets
Today Bykovo Airport (Moscow) as such no longer exists. The oldest airport, located in the near Moscow region, was closed in 2010, and therefore has not accepted either regular or charter flights for a long time. The territory that remained from the airport was used briefly for landing helicopters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Until October 2011, the airport still remained as the base of the Dester airline, which operated flights as an air taxi. With the move of the base to Ramenskoye, the airport was completely empty, and in 2011 it was removed from the register of civil airports. Dismantling of the airport terminal structures has begun.
General information
Location: Moscow, 35 kilometers southeast of the capital, transport links via Zhukovskoe highway and railway.
Postal address of Bykovo Airport (Moscow): 140150, Moscow region, Bykovo village, Ramensky district, Sovetskaya street, 9; tel. 74955584933.
The site is missing.
English name – Bykovo.
The length of the runway is 2.21 thousand meters.
Brief history
Today, only the dilapidated walls of the airport terminal, several dilapidated technical buildings and abandoned aircraft can be of interest to tourists.
Like many others, he did not survive the consequences of the 90s. The history of Bykovo began back in 1933, when Moscow decided to build an airport in the near Moscow region that could serve aircraft flying to the industrial centers of the country.
Three years later, Bykovo Airport became the capital's airport for some time, because it was entrusted with receiving flights that had previously been received by the central airport - by this time it was being reconstructed. During the war, the airport's runway was extended, which was made of brick and was a kilometer long.
In the post-war years, the range of aircraft that the airport can accommodate expanded. Here the Il-12 and Il-14 appear, a little earlier, in 1948, the Li-2. The restoration of the national economy in the country is also noticeable in the technical armament of civil aviation facilities. In the fifties, a single control and command post equipped with a radar was built, and in the sixties, a new modern asphalt concrete runway was built. The list of accepted aircraft is growing, and now the An-24 is also serviced here.
At the end of the 60s, a jet plane came here for the first time - pilots of the Bykov air squad fly to Kostroma on a ship with a jet engine. These were tests of the new Yak-40 jet aircraft, which was planned for use on local airlines.
The beginning of the 70s was marked by the construction and commissioning of a new air terminal. It was caused by increased passenger traffic, which by that time had reached 1 million people per year. The new airport terminal could handle 400 people per hour, and by 1975 it was successfully operating.
Around the same time, the runway is being reconstructed: it is lengthened and equipped with warning lights. This allows you to avoid aircraft rolling out of the runway, which have previously been here several times.
Interesting facts. There was a meteorological station at Bykovo airport. It was unique in that, due to violations of regulations during the construction of the site, it was located too close to the airport, which created some warming. And therefore, the station data constantly went a little off scale against the real temperature data. Thus, Bykovo Airport gained a humorous reputation as the warmest airport in the area.
In the 80s, the airport received Yak-42 aircraft, and a new flight to Krasnodar further expanded transportation routes. By 1990, the airport's passenger turnover reached 2.6 million people. The intense rhythm of work, airlines connecting the Moscow region and Ukraine, northern Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, providing connections with the southern and central regions of Russia - all this was in that period. The airport sent 550 flights per day at this best time for it.
Breakup time
With the beginning of privatization, the airport staff decided to corporatize, leaving 51 percent of the shares in state ownership. The new name began to sound like this - OJSC "Bykovo-Avia", the company concentrated on servicing local flights.
At the end of the 90s, the company changed management, which could not get it out of its problems, and bankruptcy began in 2000. If you believe the reference book “Moscow in Figures and Facts”, then in 2003 planes and helicopters from here transported 550 tons of cargo and 17 thousand passengers. According to official data, the last regular flights flying to Nizhny Novgorod from Moscow were flights of the Tsentr-Avia airline, and they were carried out in 2008. However, there is another opinion: since 2005, passenger transportation has been stopped.
Despite the plans voiced by the Moscow Region leadership to create a new international air hub on the basis of this airport and the formation of the corresponding infrastructure, nothing positive happened. On the contrary, as the head of the Russian Ministry of Transport, Igor Levitin, said at the beginning of 2011, the Russian authorities have no plans to develop civil transportation at Bykovo Airport.
Until recently, those who liked to explore abandoned objects could enter the territory and see the remains of the air terminal with a former display board; now there is a flight schedule in the area only for a local bus.
What ships arrived
At one time, the airport could accommodate all helicopters, as well as the following aircraft:
- Tu-154;
- Yak-42;
- IL-76;
- An-12.
The complex once had its own repair base; it was a plant for repairing various types of aircraft, including the most modern.
Today it is hardly possible to say that the oldest airport in the Moscow region may have any future. The building itself has now been completely dismantled and warehouses have been built in its place. The runway began to be used as parking spaces for cars of participants and guests of the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon. Periodically, in the government of the Moscow region around Bykovo there is talk about the construction of another airport on the site of the old Bykovo or in Kubinka. However, the matter has not yet progressed further than talk.
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MOSCOW, May 30 – RIA Novosti. Zhukovsky International Airport has become the fourth representative of the Moscow air hub along with Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo. The new air harbor is open to both classic and low-cost air travel; in addition, the airport will specialize in cargo and charter flights. A checkpoint across the state border of the Russian Federation has been established in Zhukovsky.
The construction and development of the new airport is being carried out by the Ramport Aero company, its founder is TVK Rossiya, a joint venture of Rostec and the Lithuanian aviation holding Avia Solutions Group. To date, investments in the airport have amounted to about 1.8 billion rubles, a representative said. Rostec".
Plans
In 2016, Rostec plans to begin construction of a new cargo terminal with an area of 14 thousand square meters. The modernization of the Ramensky air hub is expected to be completed by 2020. The first stage has already been completed: it included the construction of terminal No. 1 with a capacity of up to 2 million people per year, short-term and long-term parking lots with 200 and 300 spaces, respectively.
The road was reconstructed and expanded to four lanes. The reconstruction of the Otdykh railway platform to accommodate the Sputnik high-speed train is also being completed.
The second stage is scheduled until the end of 2017. 7.6 billion rubles will be invested in it. These funds will be used to build an international passenger terminal with a capacity of up to 6 million people per year and a cargo terminal with an area of 14 thousand square meters. In addition, the airport will have short-term and long-term parking lots with 512 and 3,240 spaces, respectively.
Specialists are working on the launch of Aeroexpress to Zhukovsky AirportThe project to launch Aeroexpress at the new airport is quite expensive, said Dmitry Shugaev, a representative of the Rostec state corporation. Now you can get to Zhukovsky by train from the Kazansky station to the Otdykh platform, from where a special shuttle is organized to the terminal.The third stage should be completed by the end of 2020. It includes the construction of a third terminal with a capacity of 12 million passengers per year. The construction of a hotel, shopping and office centers will also be completed.
First airlines
Ramport Aero, represented by General Director Thomas Vaishwill, signed transportation agreements with four airlines - Air Kyrgyzstan, SCAT, Sky Gates Airlines, Aviastar-TU.
“An agreement was signed with Master International General Trading to create a joint venture for the construction and management of a cargo terminal at the Ramenskoye airfield with a total area of approximately 14 thousand square meters,” Rostec said in a statement.
Air Kyrgyzstan will fly to Bishkek and Osh 8 times a week, SCAT airline (Kazakhstan) to Shymkent, Aktobe, Aktau, Astana - 12 times a week, explained a Rostec representative.
As the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, told reporters, of the four airlines starting flights to/from the newly opened airport, two - Aviastar-SP and Sky Gates Airlines - are cargo, and Sky Gates Airlines is a new private airline that will receive an air operator certificate in the near future.
When will they fly?
Air traffic to Zhukovsky will start in mid-June 2016.
“Even today’s signing with SCAT (SCAT airline, Kazakhstan - ed.) and Air Kyrgyzstan gives us the opportunity to start with 20 flights per week. Agree, this is not a bad start, especially since there is already a summer schedule - however, the companies went In order to coordinate the first flights with us, they will begin in mid-June. Then we will, naturally, increase our volumes,” Shugaev said.
Speaking about the potential passenger traffic of the airport, Shugaev estimated it at 2.4-2.5 thousand passengers per month without taking into account development plans. At the same time, foreign low-cost airlines that left Russia during the crisis are eyeing a new air harbor. The airport's recent receipt of all necessary certificates was particularly important to them, he added.
How to get there?
The issue of launching Aeroexpress to the new airport is currently being worked out, said Dmitry Shugaev, a representative of the Rostec state corporation.
He noted that Aeroexpress is not the cheapest type of delivery; tickets will cost about 400 rubles, and the travel time will be 35 minutes.”
Now the new Zhukovsky Airport can be reached by train from the Kazansky railway station to the Otdykh platform, from where a special shuttle is organized to the terminal. Travel time is 1 hour 15 minutes, the cost of a single ticket is 150 rubles.
In the fall, Russian Railways will reconstruct the station and launch the Sputnik luxury train; the journey on it will take 55 minutes. The cost of a single ticket will increase and amount to 230 rubles.
As Shugaev told Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who was present at the opening of the airport, the airport can also be reached by road. According to him, the journey will take from 45 to 75 minutes, depending on the time of day. However, with the commissioning of an overpass near the village of Oktyabrsky, travel time will be reduced to 35-40 minutes (expected by 2020).
The start of work, according to Shugaev, is planned for the third quarter of 2016. He noted that the Kotelniki metro station will have a positive effect on transport accessibility.
Special routes also run from the Kotelniki metro station to Zhukovsky, travel time is 45 minutes, ticket cost is 100 rubles. With the advent of the overpass, this route will be reduced to 25 minutes.
Illustration copyright zhukvesti.info Image caption Volunteers were brought to the not fully finished airport terminal in Zhukovsky
The opening of the Ramenskoye airport in Zhukovsky near Moscow - the fourth passenger airport near Moscow after Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukov - was unexpectedly postponed indefinitely.
On the appointed date - March 15 - only tests were carried out in the unfinished terminal with passengers, suitcases and boarding passes
In Group " Volunteers of Moscow and Moscow Region"was published on the social network VKontakte subsequently deleted message, where participants were asked to play the role of real passengers on the field of the Gromov Flight Test Institute, where military aircraft taking off from the longest runway in Europe are tested.
“For participation, the participant receives the opportunity to be the first to be at the airport, a gift from the airport, meals on the day of the event, and boarding the plane (without takeoff),” it was written in the disappeared announcement.
“A week ago, the administration began secretly recruiting volunteers. They were given tickets and forced to sit with their suitcases, this would be needed for an advertising video. The local United Russia was involved in gathering young people. Today they were taken there from the mayor’s office by bus, they were put on Russian Union T-shirts youth" [pro-Kremlin youth movement], they took them to take pictures. If they sit on the plane, they will send them home," Natalya Znamenskaya, editor-in-chief of Zhukovskiye Vesti, noted in a conversation with the BBC Russian Service.
Illustration copyright zhukvesti.info Image caption Pseudo passengers were given fake boarding passes during the trialThe operating company Ramport could neither promptly comment on today's event nor clarify when the real opening of the terminal and airport for passengers would take place.
“Already in February it was known that it was not ready. The renovation is complete, only the brands are visible, the platform is not ready yet. The invitation card said “operational test,” an eyewitness who managed to get to the tests told the BBC Russian Service.
"They're trying for the sake of the picture"
“For TV people, go ahead and try,” - writes Marina Akulinina.
“This is normal practice when opening airports - in test mode, all the “cons” are identified, if any,” - objects her Ksenia Solomenkova.
Illustration copyright zhukvesti.info Image caption At the moment, the duty-free section and waiting rooms in the terminal are in the process of being finalizedA transport expert who spoke to the BBC Russian Service agrees with Ksenia: according to him, “operational tests” themselves are a common occurrence.
“There is nothing strange, everyone always hires volunteers for the test regime: at Berlin Airport in Brandenburg, this was done in Sochi. Test passengers are normal. This is an inflated and distorted topic,” snapped Anatoly Khodorovsky, deputy general director of the investment company Region. .
At the same time, the specialist refused to make forecasts regarding the prospects for the airport’s profitability given the uncertainty of the future of other nearby runways.
“Are there low-cost airlines in our country? “Pobeda” can probably be called, but there is only one. It is “Pobeda” that we need to ask if they will move to a new location. The airfield near Kaluga [Ermolino] is not connected with Ramenskoye in any way, these airports were done by completely different people. The Bykovo airport cannot have any prospects; at most the Yak-42 could land there; it is an airport with a short runway. Now it is sandwiched by residential buildings,” Khodorovsky compared the takeoff sites.
"Light metro" to Podolsk?
The Ramport website still reports that the airport will open its doors in the first quarter of this year, but there is less and less confidence in this.
Illustration copyright zhukvesti.info Image caption SSJ-100 and Il-76 were rolled out onto the field for “trials”At the same time, the First Infrastructure Company undertook to design a light rail line between Podolsk, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, thus connecting two airports and three railway directions.
“In total, six enterprises took part in the competition. The cost of the work proposed by the company should be about 270 million rubles. The project of a light metro line along the route Podolsk – Domodedovo – Ramenskoye has been discussed in Moscow and the Moscow region since 2013,” states a press release on the website "Ramporta".
In a conversation with the BBC, First Infrastructure itself noted that there are no specific dates for putting the line into operation yet, and the competition for the operating company has not yet been held.
“The characteristics of our transport have not yet been approved, the project is under development. Preliminary economic parameters are now being considered. We have not yet identified an operator, only the territory planning project is being approved. This year there will be a competition for the concessionaire,” said company representative Natalya Agafonova.
Illustration copyright AFP Image caption The Gromov LII airfield, in addition to tests, is famous for the MAKS air show that takes place every two years.There is talk about launching a low-cost airport in Zhukovsky on the basis of the airfield of the Gromov Flight Test Institute, but in practice it is not clear what niche it will be able to occupy.
“Against the backdrop of economic problems, sanctions, devaluation of the ruble, the closure of Egypt and charters to Turkey, international passenger traffic has fallen, and the departure of Transaero from the market has freed up capacity at existing airports, and the need for Ramenskoye is now low,” they say
Airplane tickets
Location of Bykovo airport, Moscow satellite and diagram
Moscow airport information desk
Airport address- Moscow region, Ramensky district, working village Bykovo, Sovetskaya street, 19
Official website of Bykovo Airport, Moscow -
IATA code:- B.K.A.
ICAO code:- UUBB
The airport no longer operates
How to get / get to the airport
The easiest way to get to this place is by electric trains, following with Kazansky railway station to Golutvin, Shifernaya, platform 47 km, Faustov, Ryazan and directly to the Bykovo station Moscow time. railway The frequency of trains during daylight hours is 5-10 minutes, travel time is 50 minutes. (from the Vykhino platform – 23 minutes). Fare – ք88 (ք44), parking – 1 min.
Those who are interested in gawking at what now remains of the famous Soviet airport can also take advantage of minibus No. 534(“metro station Ryazansky Prospekt – station Bykovo” c/w Lyubertsy).
Currently, people travel through Bykovo to neighboring Ramenskoye ( minibus No. 424"m. Vykhino - Ramenskoye"), where the international passenger air terminal "Zhukovsky" was located, which for some time now largely functions as a closed one. From there there are flights to the Transcaucasian capitals, some cities of Central Asia, Europe, as well as to Tel Aviv and Jinan. In addition, planes also fly from here on “local” routes – to Minsk and Simferopol.
For trips in this direction the following may also be useful:
- buses No. 478(“metro station Kotelniki – machine plant”), No. 441 (“metro station Kotelniki – Gudkova street”);
- minibus No. 525(“Kuzminki metro station – Gudkova street”).
Bykovo airport board in Moscow for arrivals and departures online
Bykovo Airport Moscow - brief description
The territory of the Bykovo civil airport is located 35 km southeast of the center of Moscow (13 km from the Moscow Ring Road along the Ryazanskoe highway). Refers to an urban settlement of the same name in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region.
During the Soviet period, these air gates of the capital served as a base for short and medium passenger aviation, receiving aircraft of the following types:
- Yak-40, Yak-42.
- An-10 (An-12).
- Li-2 "Douglas" (IL-12, IL-14).
- An-24 (An-26).
- An-2.
- L-410,
as well as helicopters.
In 1970, passenger turnover amounted to 1 million people. In 1975, a new airport building appeared, serving up to 400 passengers every hour. In the mentioned year, passenger traffic has already reached 1.5 million people. In 1990, 2.8 million passengers passed through Bykovo.
In 1994, the airline became private (JSC Bykovo-Avia), but over time it could not withstand the competition. The last regular flight on the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod route was performed by a Yak-42 of Tsentr-Avia airlines in September 2009.
A year later, the airport finally ceased to function as a full-fledged air transportation facility, was officially closed to receive civilian ships and served only as a helipad for police units.
In April 2011, the liquidation of the airport infrastructure complex began, and in June of the same year "Bykovo" was excluded from the State Register of Civil Airfields of the Russian Federation.
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Introduction.
I live, comrades, not far from Bykovsky airport. Until recently, I lived and enjoyed the breathtaking beauty of large and small winged beauties flying low to land at this airport. We flew rarely, a couple of times a day, but we flew. And after some time I noticed that this beauty was gone. And I thought about it. What really happened? Who took away from me one of the few sources of pleasure in this Russian corrupt, falling apart life??? There was a hellish desire to understand the situation that had happened, especially since the rainbow-pink screens of our zombie-boxes were broadcasting with smiles on their faces about the inexorable progress on all fronts achieved by our wisest leadership of the country and the no less beloved party United Russia.
In particular, regarding the airport, information has recently been thrown into the people about a change in its leadership, the transfer to the ownership of the Ministry of Defense and, as a result, fabulous prospects. “The plans of the Moscow region are to create a modern international airport on the basis of the existing Bykovo airport by 2012, serving 500 thousand people a year, with the formation of accompanying infrastructure in the form of highways and railways.”
Question: WHERE IS IT ALL???!!!
Let's look into history.
At the turn of the 1920s-1930s, the USSR was experiencing an industrial boom. A significant increase in the rate of aircraft production also required new airfields. This is what the civil aviation airport became - in Bykovo.
The choice of location for the Bykovo airport was not accidental, since the Moscow railway passed nearby, and the distance to the capital, about 30 km, was considered small.
On September 13, 1936, regular flights began from Bykovo airport according to the central schedule. This date can be considered the airport’s birthday.
The history of the airport has many glorious pages associated with important milestones in the development of domestic air transport and the development of new types of aircraft.
From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Bykovo worked intensively in the interests of the front. For all four years, even during the evacuation of Moscow industry, the airport functioned at the limit of its capabilities.
In the first post-war years, the need for air transportation was especially great in the country. Bykovo Airport has begun peaceful work. Cargo S-47s and their Soviet version TS-62 with ASh-62 engines appeared on the airfield, and since 1948, domestic passenger Li-2s, a little later - the first domestic post-war airliners Il-12, then the famous Il-14.
In the mid-1950s, the Bykov air group became part of the Moscow Transport Aviation Administration. A single command and control tower was built on the airport territory and a surveillance radar was installed. Then a 1,400 m long concrete runway was built, which made it possible to operate not only Il-14 aircraft all year round, but also the An-24 turboprops that replaced them.
With the creation of the Bykovsky United Aviation Squadron (JSC) on the basis of the air group in 1963, with its transfer to the Civil Aviation Administration of the Central Regions and the Arctic, the aircraft of the Bykovsky JSC carried out work on escorting sea vessels in the northern latitudes. We flew to Novaya Zemlya and Fr. Spitsbergen.
In 1968, the Bykovsky United Aviation Squad was entrusted with the responsible task of conducting operational tests of the world's first jet passenger aircraft for local airlines, the Yak-40. The Yak-40 made its first flight on the route Bykovo - Kostroma - Bykovo on August 30 of the same year, opening a new page in the “biography” of the airport.
The introduction of new technology allowed the Bykovites to overcome a unique milestone in 1970 - that year the airport served a million passengers.
On April 30, 1975, another significant event occurred - a new air terminal with a capacity of 400 passengers per hour came into operation.
In 1979, the runway was extended to 2200 meters. At the same time, the lighting equipment was updated using high-intensity signaling lights. At the same time, the latest radio navigation and communications equipment was installed, which in its capabilities was not inferior to that available at the larger airports of the Moscow air hub. This made it possible to operate third-generation aircraft.
In 1980, the Bykovsky Aviation Enterprise was entrusted with the development and introduction of a third generation aircraft on Aeroflot routes - the 120-seat Yak-42.
In 1981, the Terkas automated air traffic control system was put into operation at the airport, uniting all Moscow airports. By that time, the team had mastered the operation and maintenance of An-24, An-26, Yak-40 and Yak-42 aircraft.
The airport operated under intense pressure, transporting more than 1,500,000 passengers per year. Airlines coming from Bykovo connected the capital with Ukraine, northern Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, and the central and southern regions of Russia. At the height of its activity, up to 550 flights were operated per day!
Reality…
Everything changed dramatically during the period when the country began a period of redistribution of property, which received the lyrical name “privatization.”
Airport workers and flight crews united back in 1994 and carried out privatization. They tried to divide the shares fairly: to the team 49%, to the native state 51%. And there was no intention of retaining a controlling stake: the airport should remain state-owned. OJSC Bykovo-Avia was formed. They worked as hard as they could and got results: the airport was included in the 13% of Russian enterprises that feed themselves. For four years, Bykovo-Avia constantly paid both taxes to the state and wages to employees without delay and in the required quantities and was one of the largest taxpayers in the Ramensky district. The airport has never asked for any loans or subsidies from the state. Moreover, both personnel and the entire social sphere were preserved. The airport, if not thriving, was at least staying afloat, and its general director G. Sytnik was even included in the “Golden Book of Moscow Entrepreneurship” in 1997.
Everything would have been possible and would have continued, but the trouble is, those who raked their hands could not miss such a tasty piece of property for a number of obvious reasons.
Firstly, a huge piece of land property, state property, bringing considerable profit.
Secondly, the opportunity to carry out customs operations, which, when handled skillfully, provided enormous profits without much hassle with the process of repairing useless aircraft.
“Where aviation begins, order ends,” says popular wisdom, but what happened next is difficult to explain except by the intervention of otherworldly forces or suitcases full of crisp banknotes, although today there is a very clear definition of this, enshrined in the criminal code. The events that unfolded around Bykovo-Avia are the topic, if not of a detective series, then of a multi-volume prosecutor’s case. 4 days before the meeting of shareholders, FAS Russia, in a commanding tone, recommends that the director of BARZ (Bykovsky Aircraft Repair Plant), Chernyaev, be elected to the post of general director of this company. Of course, a scandal is arising, which, however, the FAS itself, in the person of the deputy head of the Federal Aviation Service, undertakes to resolve. Then everything happens with lightning speed.
On January 25, 1997, a meeting was held at which, according to some reports, out of 1,640 shareholders, 18 were present! And naturally, Mr. Chernyaev, who was declared the winner of the competition to bring Bykovo-Avia OJSC out of the crisis, was elected director of the enterprise. Purely in Russian - if a person couldn’t cope with a region - give him a province!
And then everything went according to the established pattern: courts, prosecutors, rallies, riot police, explosions, murders. A classic raiding scheme using all available tools. Ultimately, changes are made to the charter of Bykovo OJSC, which was attended by barely half of the shareholders. From now on, the general director is elected not by the general meeting, but by the board of directors, in which the necessary persons sit.
Well, for example, Mr. Gritsaev:
1998—1999 JSC Interros Leading specialist in the debt management department
1999—2001 JSC Interros Leading specialist in the department of interaction with management companies of the Enterprise Development Directorate
2001—2001 JSC BYKOVO Airport First Deputy General Director
2001 - present time NP "AT-Alliance" Deputy General Director
Or Mrs. Klimova
1998-2000 OJSC "Bykovsky Aircraft Repair Plant" Secretary-assistant in the business management department
2000—2000 OJSC "A/K "CENTER-AVIA" Leading specialist in Administration
2000 - present time NP "AT-Alliance" Manager in the corporate relations department
What could these people understand about the work of aviation? Remains a mystery to this day.
In 2000, the airport went bankrupt; this was not difficult for real estate specialists. The documents were burned, although for the sake of truth, it must be said that in those years, many fires burned in the nearby forests, the smoke of which carried away an uncountable number of facts from the life of modern entrepreneurs and officials that were interesting to the investigative authorities. Probably, this can explain the fact that criminal cases that were repeatedly initiated on the facts of deliberate bankruptcy of the airport never reached the court. Since 2000, JSC Bykovo Airport, established by Center-Avia, has become the operator of the airport. In 2003, according to the reference book “Moscow in Figures and Facts”, the line opposite Bykovo Airport shows an indicator of 17 thousand passengers and only 550 tons of cargo. The number of passengers and cargo transported in 2008 is not amenable to official statistics. But knowledgeable people claim that Bykovo Airport has not carried passengers since 2005!
Why the fuss?
Then why was it necessary to announce in the press a trip to the airfield runway? And the casket opens simply. On July 11, 2008, an extended meeting of the Board of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) was held in Ufa. Here's what the final document says:
“Rosaviation will continue to work with the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in order to speed up their decision-making on the transfer of airfields and airports from federal ownership to the ownership of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, providing for high-quality development of feasibility studies and investment projects, with the attraction of borrowed funds and funds from institutional investors, attracting in all possible cases, private investment, including using public-private partnership schemes.
The transfer of airports (aerodromes) into the ownership of constituent entities of the Russian Federation shall be carried out taking into account the need to ensure uninterrupted functioning of strategically important airfield infrastructure facilities that ensure the territorial security and defense capability of the country. Pay special attention to the exclusion of measures aimed at repurposing airfield property, including their use during the process of changing ownership.
Contact the leaders of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation about the advisability of reducing or establishing a zero tax rate on the property of airports (aerodromes), understanding the importance of air transport for the population and economies of the regions and the country as a whole, and the need to create attractive conditions for investors in civil aviation.”
And who in a sober mind and sound memory will pass by such attractive conditions for the development of any business, under the banner of saving the oldest airfield, especially in terms of tax reduction?
In the photo there is a corridor leading to the waiting room.
Today's realities.
The plans of the Moscow region were to create a modern international airport on the basis of Bykovo Airport by 2012, serving 500 thousand people a year, with the formation of accompanying infrastructure in the form of highways and railways.
That’s how it turned out: the building is falling apart, all the scrap metal is being removed from it, the batteries have been cut down, teams of “friends from Asia” are working hard, dismantling everything they can... Most of the planes that were previously here have disappeared. The Yak-42s are generally dragged to the far fence... The building turns into a sad monument to its former power... Instead of the previously familiar turboprop sounds of the Ans, you can only hear the sound of the wind raising columns of snow on an empty abandoned runway... Picture very sad... Now we are witnessing the death of an entire era in the aviation life of our once mighty Motherland...
P.S.: In January 2011, the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Igor Levitin, said that the Russian authorities do not plan to develop civil aviation transportation in Bykovo.
This is the end of a diving airfield...
The internal condition of the building is simply terrible. Everything is urgently dismantled...
In front of the entrance to the building there are mountains of scrap metal - from heating pipes to devices unknown to me
Not far from the building stands a proud bird with its wings torn off...
From the second floor of the airport there is a view of the airfield, of planes that will never take off...
This very equipment, which not so long ago ensured the vital functions of the entire system, is now of no use to anyone...
The proud symbol of Soviet aviation - as a reproach to everything that is happening, looks very sad against the background of what is happening...
Il-14 in front of the airport building on a pedestal
The atmosphere in the building is saturated with the hysterical hopelessness of the tragic ending, in recent times a completely healthy monster...
That's it, I wasn't able to take any more photos... I'm very sorry for the quality of the photos. The material helped
