Vladivostok International Airport

UHWW / VVO

Description

Vladivostok International Airport is an international airport located near Artyom, Primorsky Krai, Russia, roughly an hour's drive (44 kilometers) north of the center of the city of Vladivostok. It was formerly known as Knevichi Airport, named after the village of Knevichi. The Knevichi airfield was designed for all types of aircraft and have one hard surface runway.

Features

Airport is located in mountainous terrain. In Vladivostok TMA boundaries altitudes are calculated in feet by QNH

Transition altitude: 8000 feet

Transition level:

FL090 when QNH > 1013 HPa
FL100 when QNH ≤ 1013 > 977 HPa
FL110 when QNH ≤ 977 HPa

Airport aprons usage procedures:

There is 3 aprons in Vladivostok airport:

Apron A - main apron(stands 1-25). Two stands located separately from main part of apron. There is no restrictions on stand usage by civil aircrafts, besides stand 19-19B, which are used only for DHC-6-400 aircrafts

Apron B - used for Aurora airlines aircraft’s technical services. In VATSIM network it’s closed and unusable

Apron C - military apron, located near apron A. No civil aircraft approved to use it.

Helicopters pad’s H1,H2,H3 are located on the intersections of taxiways S,R and P with taxiway M

Weather

Management

Maxim Osmolovskiy *

Location

Region

Eastern Russia

FIR

Khabarovsk

APT coordinates

43.39900, 132.14800 

Elevation

46 ft / ≈14 m

Airport charts

Runways information

ATC positions