Bezymyanka - experimental (test base) aerodrome of the aviation plant Aviakor

Aviakor

OJSC Aviakor is an aviation plant located in Samara. It is part of the Russian machines holding under control of the financial industrial group Basic Element owned by Oleg Deripaska. In USSR Kuibyshev aviation plant was one of the five largest plants in the aviation industry. For more than half...

 in the city of Samara

Samara, Russia

Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...

. Located 4 km east of the railroad station Bezymyanka, Kirov district of Samara, 12 km east of the city center.

To the east of the airport another Airport Smyshlyaevka is located, to the south the settlements Chkalov, Padovka and the Samara River

Samara River

The Samara is a river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. The city of Samara is located at the confluence of Volga and Samara. It rises southwest of the southern end of the Ural Mountains close to the middle Ural River near the town of Orenburg. It then flows west or west northwest to meet the...

, to the north the Aviakor plant and TsSKB-Progress plant.

Bezymyanka Airport rated 1 class and can serve most of the airplane and helicopter types. Total runway length 3,600 m, 2,800 m usable.

Founded in 1942, the first runway utilized brick

Brick

A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using various kinds of mortar. It has been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials used throughout history.-History:...

s as its pavement. After the Second world war strike the aviation plants №1 and №18 were evacuated to Kuibyshev (Samara nowadays) from Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 and Voronezh

Voronezh

Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

. At the earliest possible date they set up the production of Il-2.

In the second part of the 20th century the airport served as the testing ground for a number of Tupolev

Tupolev

Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. Known officially as Public Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau headed by the Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev...

, Ilyushin

Ilyushin

Open Joint Stock Company «Ilyushin Aviation Complex» , operating as Ilyushin or Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on January 13, 1933, by...

 and Antonov

Antonov

Antonov, or Antonov Aeronautical Scientist/Technical Complex , formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company with particular expertise in the field of very large aircraft construction. Antonov ASTC is a state-owned commercial company...

 planes produced by the abovementioned aviation plants.

Since 1958 plant №1 was reorientated for the production of space rockets and artificial satellites, airport started charter transport service to Baikonur

Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...

 and Plesetsk

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk.-Overview:...

, such services continues nowadays. In 1980th airport was used to transport components of Energia

Energia

Energia was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift expendable launch system as well as a booster for the Buran spacecraft. Control system main developer enterprise was the NPO "Electropribor"...

 rocket carrier to Baikonur on the VM-T aircraft in preparation for the Shuttle Buran

Shuttle Buran

The Buran spacecraft , GRAU index 11F35 K1 was a Russian orbital vehicle analogous in function and design to the US Space Shuttle and developed by Chief Designer Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy of Energia rocket corporation...

 flight. For this case the runway was lengthen up to 3,600m.

Airport redevelopment plans includes construction of the cargo terminals to convert it into international cargo airport with a better industrial location than Kurumoch. Similar project was done in Ulyanovsk with the construction of Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport

Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport

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 on the basis of the test facility of Aviastar-SP

Aviastar-SP

CJSC Aviastar-SP is a Russian aircraft factory based in Ulyanovsk. It is a closed shares joint stock company. It has replaced the Soviet Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and manufactures the cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan and the whole Tu-204 family...

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