Tiksi Airport
Tiksi Aerodrome is located 1 km northeast of Tiksi, Sakha Republic, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Russia
- Also known as: “IKS”, “Tiksi airport”, and “UEST”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiksi.
Tiksi
Photo: Pavelratmanov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiksi is an urban locality and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea, southeast of the delta of the Lena River.
Tiksi Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Bulunsky District, Yakutia, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
71.69783° or 71° 41′ 52″ northLongitude
128.90262° or 128° 54′ 9″ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Operator
Тиксинский филиал ГУП АК ‘Полярные авиалинии’IATA airport code
IKSICAO airport code
UESTOpen location code
CQ3CMWX3+42OpenStreetMap ID
way 75208203OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
6300929Wikidata ID
Q2084892
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yakut—“Tiksi Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tiksi Airport”
- Chinese: “季克西机场”
- Chinese: “季克西機場”
- Dutch: “Tiksi”
- Finnish: “Tiksin lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport de Tiksi”
- French: “Aéroport de Tiksi”
- French: “UEST”
- French: “Тикси”
- Georgian: “ტიკსის აეროპორტი”
- German: “Flughafen Tiksi”
- Indonesian: “IKS”
- Indonesian: “UEST”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Tiksi”
- Japanese: “ティクシ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Tiksi”
- Persian: “فرودگاه تیکسی”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Tiksi”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Tiksi”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Tiksi”
- Russian: “Авиабаза Тикси”
- Russian: “Аэропорт Тикси”
- Russian: “Тикси”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Tiksi”
- Turkish: “Tiksi Hava Üssü”
- Turkish: “Tiksi Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Тіксі (аеропорт)”
- Ukrainian: “Тіксі”
- Yakut: “Тиксии аэропорда”
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