Makhachkala Uytash Airport () is a civil airport located near

Makhachkala Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk language, Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Dagestan, Russia. ...

and just south of the city of

Kaspiysk Kaspiysk (; Lezgin: Каспи ; ) is a city in Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea, southeast of Makhachkala. The 2010 Russian census recorded the city as being the fourth-largest in Dagestan. It is a working-class satellite city to ...

which is on the west side of the Caspian Sea. It is named after

Amet-khan Sultan Amet-khan Sultan ( Crimean Tatar: Amet-Han Sultan, Амет-Хан Султан, احمدخان سلطان; Ukrainian/Russian: Амет-Хан Султан; 20 October 1920 – 1 February 1971) was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace in ...

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fighter pilot, twice

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. The naming was found controversial by the

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, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.

South East Airlines OJSC Dagestan Airlines () was an airline based at Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, operating domestic and international scheduled and chartered flights. History The roots of the airline can be traced back to February 1927, wh ...

(formerly

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...

Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

*On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two

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aircraft collided and caught fire. *On 4 December 2010,

Flight 372, a

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carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to

, crash landed at

Domodedovo International Airport Moscow Domodedovo International Airport ( rus, links=no, аэропорт Домодедово, p=dəmɐˈdʲɛdəvə) (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD), formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an international airport serving Mosc ...

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, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died. *On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a

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flight from

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arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful. Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities. This event, sparked by false rumors about the arrival of Israeli refugees, occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Local authorities blamed the ''Morning of Dagestan'' channel on

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, as well as

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and

Ilya Ponomarev Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (, ; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian people, Russian-Ukrainian people, Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. He was the only member of the State Duma not to vote in fa ...

, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country". Ponomarev denied any connection to the ''Morning of Dagestan'', while ''Morning of Dagestan'' itself attributed the story of their connection to Ponomarev to " FSB mad dogs" as well as confusion between the ''Morning of Dagestan'' channel and Ponomarev's ''February Morning'' channel.

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Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

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