If you need to fly to Tyumen or other nearby cities and towns, then your plane will land at the international airport called “Roshchino”. Today we offer a closer acquaintance with this air harbor, learning about the history of its creation, location and services that it provides to passengers.
Description of Tyumen Air Harbor
Roshchino (airport) is located in the Tyumen region. The distance from the air harbor to the city of Tyumen is thirteen kilometers. Roshchino is a federal airport. It receives and sends both domestic and international flights. Air carriers such as Yamal and UTair are based in this air harbor.
In addition to Roshchino, in the vicinity of Tyumen there is another airfield - Plekhanovo. Local air carriers are based here. However, they plan to close it soon, and to build a large business center in its place.
History
Roshchino (airport) owes its appearance to the discovery and the beginning of the development of large oil and gas deposits in the Tyumen region in the sixties of the last century. During this period, the rapid development of local aviation. After all, access to the fields was complicated by complete impassability, and their development was possible only with the creation of an established aviation infrastructure. In this regard, an airport was built in a short time in Tyumen. It was designed to receive heavy An-22 and An-12 aircraft, which transported various cargoes to the north of the Tyumen region. Passenger traffic at that time was carried out by An-24 type aircraft, and since 1972 Tu-134 also joined them. In the next two decades, the airport Roshchino actively developed. More and more cargo was transported through it to the northern regions of our country. Passenger traffic also increased. So, in the seventies and eighties of the last century, more than one and a half million people flew from here every year in different directions.
Today, the passenger flow of Roshchino Airport is just over one million per year. In 2012, a large-scale reconstruction was started here. In its course, it is planned to modernize not only the water supply, heating and sewage systems, but also the terminal building itself, as well as the forecourt. As a result, Roshchino will become a modern, convenient and international airport meeting all international standards. Due to the increase in the area of the terminal, the capacity of the air harbor will increase three times (from 250 people per hour to 800 people per hour). The construction of five indoor telescopic ladders will allow the passenger to land directly from the terminal building without the need for passage along the street.
Roshchino Airport (Tyumen): address, phone, website
As we already mentioned, this air harbor is located thirteen kilometers from the center of Tyumen at 23 Ilyushin Street. You can call the airport information desk by phone: +7 3452 496 450. All necessary information about the air harbor, as well as the online arrival board and departure can be found on the official website of Roshchino - www.tjm.aero.
Roshchino Airport (Tyumen): how to get there
Air transport connects the city center with the city center. So, by bus number 10 you can get from the airport to the train station. It runs from seven in the morning to ten in the evening. You can get into the city by minibus No. 35. She walks every 25 minutes from six in the morning until seven in the evening.
Taxi services are also available. Such a trip from the air harbor to the train station will cost about 250 rubles.
Services
Roshchino Airport (Tyumen) offers its passengers a standard set of services that can be found in almost every air harbor. So, there are ATMs, payment reception centers, a post office, as well as a medical center, a room for mother and child, VIP passenger service, airline representatives, luggage storage. Since Roshchino is a small airport, it cannot offer a lot of different entertainments that a passenger can indulge in while waiting for his flight. However, if you are hungry, you can have a tasty meal in one of the two cafeterias located here. The airport also has souvenir and newsagents. Near Roshchino there is a hotel "Liner". Paid parking is also available here. For the first twenty minutes of parking you do not need to pay.
Incidents
In the early morning of April 2, 2012, a plane crash happened sixteen kilometers from the center of Tyumen near the village of Gorkovko. A UTair-owned ATR-72 passenger plane crashed there, which had just taken off from the runway of Roshchino Airport and was heading for Surgut. On board the aircraft that unfortunate morning were 39 passengers and 4 crew members. Unfortunately, this terrible catastrophe claimed the lives of 33 people.