Mezen Airport is an airport in Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea....

, Russia

Russia

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 located 4 km north of Mezen

Mezen

-See also:*Administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast...

. It handles small transport planes. There are several weekly flights to Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

 and several flights per month to the remote locations of Mezensky District

Mezensky District

Mezensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Mezensky Municipal District...

 — the selos of Koyda, Moseyevo, and Safonovo.

In 1883, a weather station

Weather station

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 was open in Mezen. It was operating under the authority by the Russian Geographical Society

Russian Geographical Society

The Russian Geographical Society is a learned society, founded on 6 August 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.-Imperial Geographical Society:Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was known as the Imperial Russian Geographical Society....

but run by single individuals. In 1939 the observations suitable for aviation started, and from 1942, the weather station was used to support the flights.