This year turned 85 years old by Simferopol Airport. The air harbor experienced many events and fateful solutions during this time. I propose a little to join the history of the main airport of the Crimean Peninsula.
The Council of People's Commissars of CRESSR on January 21, 1936 issued a decree, according to which it was determined that the opening of the airline from Simferopol to Moscow is extremely necessary and timely. On the same day, it was decided to build in Simferopol Aeroplace.
The first flight between Simferopol and the capital was made on May 1, 1936. Passenger aircraft of that time overcame the distance in almost one and a half thousand kilometers in 12 hours. In general, until the end of the 30th Simferopolsky airproof began to take airplanes not only from Moscow, but also from other cities of the Ukrainian SSR - Kharkov, Kiev and others.
Before the war, Simferopol Airport served only a few people. The staff fired airplanes from a large barrel, and oil brought in buckets. There were no mechanization and special equipment at their disposal.
Also on the airport there was a training squadron with 2 aircraft, on which new pilots for civil aviation were trained. In the interruptions between classes, the aircraft 2 were used for agricultural needs.
In the first days of war on the basis of the airport, a special Black Sea aircraft carrier was created. The pilots ensured the connection between the bases of the Black Sea Fleet on the shore, took part in the evacuation of the Crimean cities and Odessa, participated in the liberation of Sevastopol.
Immediately after the liberation of the Crimea from the German fascist invaders, already in 1944 the airport in Simferopol began to restore. Time Time Time of War, the airline pilots took part in the establishment of a peaceful life on the peninsula - they took the mail and medicines, products and other goods between cities and settlements of Crimea.
Three dugouts with paramilitary protection, aircraft base and power station; Barak, where the warehouse was; Shed, in which two paramedic workers worked; The fifty-cubic tanks, where administrative services were located - this is exactly what Simferopol Airport looked after the war. In 1946, the needs of passengers on the already recovered flights to Moscow and other cities served a small Finnish house.
In the 50th Simferopol airline, it became one of the best in the USSR. The aircare participated in the exhibition VDNH, where he held a whole pavilion. Simferopol supplied new models of aircraft for a wide variety of flights and needs.
In 1957, a new overhaul of the airport appeared. The central part of the building with columns was intended for passengers, in the wings of the building there were official premises, dispatcher appeared above the building. Also, the primer runway was prepared for reception and take-off night flights.
In the 1960s and 70s, the airport only developed - a concrete runway appeared, capable of even the reactive Tu-104, which was subsequently carried out. With the introduction of the Intourist Passenger Terminal, the airport began to serve international flights. Also appeared a bus station, from where it was possible to get to the most distant settlements of Crimea, and the helicopter message of Simferopol with Yalta, Sudakov and Feodosia was carried out.
The peak of the airport activity fell at the end of the 80s - the beginning of the 90s. The most productive was 1991 - the airport served about 5 million passengers. From Simferopol, it was possible to fly in almost all major cities of the Soviet Union, as well as in many foreign cities - London, Berlin, Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden, Prague, Helsinki, Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Varna, Aden ( Yemen), Maputo (Mozambique).
The Ukrainian period in the history of Crimea brought Simferopol Airport a decline in the number of passengers and in serviced flights, but almost the entire Ukrainian period of the air harbor of the peninsula remained in second place after the Kiev "Borispol". His million passenger Simferopol Airport served only in 2012
Well, the modern history of Simferopol International Airport. Aivazovsky is already known to us.
Message to Simferopol Airport. I tell the history of the main air harbor of the Crimea first appeared on Arkady Ilyukhin.