Orsk Airport () is an international airport in

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located south of

Orsk Orsk () is the second largest city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the steppe about southeast of the southern tip of the Ural Mountains. The city straddles the Ural River. Population: It lies adjacent to the Kazakhstan–Russia border. ...

. It services medium-sized airliners. The terminal building is located around 3 km from the

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, with some equipment located in Kazakhstan.

History

The airport was established in 1958. On 9 April 1960 this was a refueling stop for

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. A comparable U.S. " Cen ...

fighter jets from Sverdlovsk attempting to intercept one of

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' U-2 flights, however one of the MiG-19s crashed on approach to Orsk. The modern airport building was built in 1982 and the modern artificial runway was laid in 1987. The airport was the destination of

Saratov Airlines Flight 703 Saratov Airlines Flight 703 was a domestic passenger flight from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Orsk Airport in Russia. On 11 February 2018, the aircraft serving the flight, an Antonov An-148-100B, crashed shortly after take-off, killing all 71 ...

, which crashed killing 71 people in February 2018.

Airlines and destinations

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