In Russia work continues on carrying out the infrastructure development programme, including airport construction.
In Russia work continues on carrying out the infrastructure development programme, including airport construction.
As President of Russia Vladimir Putin said on March 2, one of the planned sites is the Anapa airport. «They already have a dual-purpose airport there with a good runway, but a new terminal needs to be built. This is a very advantageous site, after all, once work on the bridge connecting the Caucasus region to Crimea is finished, passengers will be able to arrive quickly via this airport to Crimea’s eastern coast, and travel onwards to destinations in the Caucasus itself, of course, Anapa, Novorossiysk and Gelendzhik», Putin noticed.
«As it happens, we launched the works on Anapa’s new airport terminal just yesterday. The terminal area will be 12,000 square metres – 2.5 times bigger than the current terminal. This will make it possible to offer tourists and holidaymakers all the proper comfort and improve the logistics and communications situation with regard to Crimean Federal District».
The airport is growing rapidly. It served 17 percent more passengers last year than in 2014, and the figures for January this year already show growth of nearly 30 percent.
It is expected the new terminal to be complete by the end of this year, and it will be ready to open its doors to all holidaymakers and tourists starting from the next holiday season.
This is certainly not the only site that will be ready for operation this year. The Transport Ministry and investors are investing actively in airport infrastructure and a number of new facilities are due to open soon.
«The modernised airport in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, began operations at the start of January. A new airport terminal is just weeks away now from starting work in Nizhny Novgorod, and a new airport that will add a fourth civilian airport to Moscow’s aviation hub (the Ramenskoye or Zhukovsky airport) is also set to start work this year, which will considerably increase the Moscow air transport hub’s passenger throughput capacity. This year will also see the opening of new airport terminals in Tyumen (Roshchino airport), Volgograd, and Kaliningrad, and a new airport will open in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after large-scale reconstruction. Work has begun on building new terminals in Krasnoyarsk and Perm, and modernising Tyva airport. Construction will get underway in May this year of a new terminal in Simferopol, with capacity of 7 million passengers. Incidentally, last year’s passenger figures put Simferopol’s airport in fifth place in the country, immediately after Moscow and St Petersburg, with more than five million passengers», Sokolov added.
This work is possible because of direct investment coming from the federal budget and because these projects have become more attractive for investors and now there are several investment groups taking part in the work to develop airport infrastructure. Several runways were built entirely on investors’ money, at the Talakan airport, for example [in Yakutia], and the Bovanenkovo and Sabetta airports on the Yamal Peninsula.
