Kogalym Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Когалым) (IATA: KGP, ICAO: USRK) is an airport in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia located 9 km southeast of Kogalym. It accommodates medium-sized airliners..

In the late 70s and early 80s of the XX century, the Kogalym oil region received rapid development, significantly expanding its borders. Then it was decided in 1985 to form a new city of Kogalym.

At the initiative of the LUKOIL oil company, in 1986 the construction of an airport in the city of Kogalym began, which ensured the sustainable and uninterrupted development of oil fields in the Kogalym region of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra by the shift-expeditionary method.

The construction of the airport took place in the shortest possible time, and already in October 1991, Kogalym Airport accepted the first technical flight made on an An-26 aircraft.

February-March 1986 - at the initiative of the First Secretary of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the CPSU Shakirov M.Z. at the congress of the CPSU, it was decided to build an airport in the city of Kogalym to ensure the sustainable development of oil fields in the Kogalym district by the shift-expeditionary method.

At the initiative of the LUKOIL oil company, surveys began in 1980, and in 1986 the construction of the airport in Kogalym itself, which took place as soon as possible.

The research and design of the airport was carried out by the author's team of the GPI and the Aeroproject Research Institute, consisting of Ivanov V.N., Golubykh O.G., Tsvetkov A.V., Pugachev M.I., Chekanovsky L.P., Khresin V.P.

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