Kiev (airport)

As of June 1, 2019:

Until 1924, Ukrvozdukhput prepared everything necessary to start regular passenger traffic in the sky of Ukraine. The central point was Kharkov , where a huge reinforced concrete hangar and workshop premises were built. The air routes Kharkov - Poltava - Kiev and Kharkov - Poltava - Kremenchug - Odessa ran from here .

In several cities of Ukraine it was necessary to equip passenger airfields. In Kiev, a military airfield near the village of Zhulyany (now a district in the city) was adapted for this purpose. On May 25, 1924, the plane Ukrvozdukhputi “Red Chemist” ( Dornier Comet system) arrived here from Kharkov with a test flight. The flight took 3 hours 20 minutes. From the first days of June, systematic flights began from Kharkov to Kiev and back on schedule, in each direction one flight twice a week. At that time, the airport did not exist yet - there was only an airfield.

In the 1930s the main airport of Kiev was the Brovarsky airport , which was destroyed in 1941.

The new terminal was built in 1949 according to the project of the architect Viktor Elizarov, one of the authors of the updated Khreshchatyk .

In the name of the "air gate" of Kiev, the word "Zhulyany" was initially absent. In the 1920s they said “airfield at Post-Volynsky”, in the 1940s – 1950s they said “airport at Chokolovka” or just “Kiev airport”, as it was the only one for Aeroflot in the Ukrainian capital. He took planes with passengers and cargo from different parts of the USSR. International flights from Moscow to the capital of the countries of the socialist camp passed through Zhulyany.

The name “Zhulyany Airport” was officially used in the 1960s after the construction of a new airport in Borispol. After joining the Zhulyany village to Kiev, the airport was renamed to Kiev International Airport.

The General Plan for the Development of the City of Kiev until 2025 provides for the further development of Kiev Airport (Zhulyany) ^[6] .

Vasily Khmelnitsky said ^[7] that he had invested $ 70 million in terminal construction and took an additional $ 50 million on credit and intended to make the airport efficient.

1. On August 17, 1957, two Il-14s collided near the airport. Killed 15 people ^[8] .
2. On December 17, 1976, the An-24 , performing a regular flight along the Chernivtsi -Kiev route, crashed while landing. Landing was carried out at night, in conditions of low cloud cover, snow with rain, icing and fog (visibility - 600 m). Information about the deterioration of visibility below a minimum of 700 m was not reported to the crew, which began to decline late with a vertical speed above the calculated. 2500 m fromRunway An-24 crossed the glide path and continued to descend with increased vertical speed. At the height of the decision, the crew, having no visual contact with the ground, did not go to the second round . At 1265 m from the runway, the aircraft collided with the BPRM concrete fence, then, flying another 115 m, crashed into a railway embankment, collapsed and caught fire. Of the 55 people on board, 48 were killed.
3. On December 9, 2007, when approaching 400 meters from the runway , the Beechcraft C90A regional plane crashed .
4. On June 14, 2018, upon landing, he left the runway MD-83 (AK Bravo Airways, registration number UR-CPR ^[9] ). No one was injured in the accident, but the plane was decommissioned.
5. On July 12, 2019, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft of Belavia Airlines with flight number EW 336PA, flying B2847 from Minsk, left the runway during landing. None of the 139 passengers on board and 5 crew members were injured in the incident. The plane received minor damage ^[10]

• Official site of the airport "Kiev" (Zhuliany)
• Official site of the airport "Kyiv" (Zhuliani)
• Kiev Architectural Council - Airfield reconstruction project ...
• Airport at Airliners.net
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• Swissport will operate in Zhuliany from March, servicing Wizz Air flights
• The official website for pre-ordering goods at the airport "Kiev" (Zhulyany)