Talagi Airport is an international airport serving 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...

, Russia

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, located 11 kilometers outside the city. In 2001 it had 105,797 passengers and 921 tonnes of cargo

Cargo

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. The airport was founded on February 5, 1963. It had an operational peak in 1990 with 952,457 passengers.

Talagi Airport serves as an airline hub

Airline hub

An airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. It is part of a hub and spoke model, where travelers moving between airports not served by direct flights change planes en route to their destinations...

 for Nordavia.

The Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) had a presence at this airfield with 518 IAP (518th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying Tupolev Tu-128 from 1966 onward. It received MiG-31 aircraft during the 1980s . This regiment was disbanded in 1998.

Airlines and destinations