Kiev International Airport or Kyiv (Zhuliany) International Airport is one of the two passenger airport

Airport

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s of the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 capital Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

. It is located in the Zhuliany neighbourhood in the south of the city.

Although the original airport, it is not the main airport serving Kiev. In the 1960s the larger Boryspil International Airport was built near the city of Boryspil

Boryspil

Boryspil is a city located in the Kiev Oblast in northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Boryspil Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast....

. Since that time the old "Kiev" airport became commonly known just as "Zhuliany" (or Kiev-Zhuliany), while it still keeps the official "Kiev" name.

In Soviet

Soviet Union

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 times Kiev-Zhuliany was used for domestic flights only. After independence it began receiving some international flights from nearby countries. Surrounded by major railways, highway

Highway

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s and residential districts, the airport has no possibility for expansion and is limited in types and MTOW of aircraft, certificated to operate there.

The airport features a major aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul company, ARP-410

Kiev Aircraft Repair Plant 410

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. On September 2003 some of its territory was handed over to create Ukraine State Aviation Museum

Ukraine State Aviation Museum

The State Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Zhulyany Airport in Kiev, Ukraine. The museum offers both aircraft exhibits and also interactive displays. The museum opened its doors to the public on 30 September 2003, with Yuriy Ziatdinov as initial curator...

 which presently is the largest aviation museum in Ukraine, exhibiting some unique Soviet examples including original prototypes for famous airliners.

On March 27, 2011, WizzAir moved all its operations to 'Zhulyany' from Kiev's larger Boryspil Airport

Boryspil Airport

Boryspil International Airport is an international airport located west of Boryspil, east of Kiev. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the major part of international flights of the country, and is one of three airports that serve Kiev, along with the smaller Zhulyany Airport and Gostomel...

.

Road transport

The Airport is connected to the city's main highway infrastructure via the Povitroflotskyi Avenue, and served by a number of city transport routes, including:

• Bus Route 9: 'Kiev' Airport-Central railway station
  Kiev Passenger Railway Station
  Kiev Passenger Railway Station is a complex of Kiev's Central Station and adjoining "Southern Station," plus the adjacent Suburban Station, together serving more than 170,000 passengers per day . "Southern Station" is a misnomer in virtually universal usage in Kiev, referring to an entrance on the...
  
   (transfer for metro
  Kiev Metro
  The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...
  
   at Vokzalna Station
  Vokzalna (Kiev Metro)
  Vokzalna is a station on Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line. The station was opened along with the Metro on the 6 November 1960, and is named after Kiev's Central rail station and is the metro stop for those using the train....
  
   - )
• Trolleybus Route 22: 'Kiev' Airport-Olzhycha Street (transfer for metro
  Kiev Metro
  The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...
  
   at Dorohozhychi Station
  Dorohozhychi (Kiev Metro)
  Dorohozhychi is a Kiev Metro station on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line. Opened on 30 March 2000, the station represents the second extension of the Syretsky radius to the northwest....
  
   - )
• Bus Route 78: 'Kiev' Airport-Vasylkivska Metro Station
  Vasylkivska (Kiev Metro)
  Vasylkivska is station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. It is named after the street which leads to Vasylkiv, south-west to capital Kiev. The station was opened on 15 December 2010.-History:...
  
  (transfer for metro
  Kiev Metro
  The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...
  
   - ),

as well as private bus routes

Marshrutka

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.

Car parking facilities at the airport are poor and consist of only a very small area for short stay parking located directly in front of the terminal building, however, long stay parking can be found in the airport's immediate vicinity. Taxis can often be found waiting directly outside of the terminal, in the passenger drop-off/pick-up area.

Railway connection

The airport's passenger terminal is located about 0.5 km away from the Kiev-Volynskyi rail station - a stop for elektrichka

Elektrichka

Elektrichka is an informal word for elektropoyezd , a Soviet or post-Soviet regional electrical multiple unit passenger train. Elektrichkas are widespread in Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union....

 commuter trains as well as for the planned "Urban Electric Train" service.

Future Metro connection

Plans for the Podilsko-Vyhurivska Line, which is now under construction elsewhere in the city, include the Airport transfer station form the 'Zhulyany' Airport. The station is expected to be constructed until 2020.

Airlines and destinations

Development

The construction of the new international terminal of the airport which started in August, 2007 is now catching up. As of October, 2011, the construction was expected to finish by April, 2012. The new terminal will be able to handle up to 550 passengers per hour.

External links

• Official website of the airport
• NOAA/NWS current weather observations
• ASN Accident history for UKKK
• Zhulyany airport, article in Swedish http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/nordh/2011/03/fornyelse-av-iev-kiev-zhulyany-airport-1?awesm=fbshare.me_AasDA&utm_content=fbshare-js-small&utm_medium=fbshare.me-facebook-post&utm_source=facebook.com