Minsk National Airport: International airport in Belarus
Minsk National Airport (formerly known as Minsk-2) (IATA: MSQ, ICAO: UMMS) (Belarusian: Нацыянальны аэрапорт Мінск, ; Russian: Национальный аэропорт Минск) is the main international airport in Belarus, located 42 km (26 mi) to the east of the capital Minsk, geographically lying in the territory of Smalyavichy District .
Minsk National Airport Национальный аэропорт Минск Natsional'nyy aeroport Minsk | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||||||
.jpg) | |||||||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Minsk, Belarus | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1 July 1983 | ||||||||||||||
| Hub for | Belavia | ||||||||||||||
| Commander | Vyacheslav Khoroneko (head) | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | EEST (UTC+03:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 204 m / 669 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°52′57″N 28°01′57″E / 53.88250°N 28.03250°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | airport.by | ||||||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||||||
  MSQ Location of airport in Belarus | |||||||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Statistics (2018) | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Sources: ACI's 2014 World Airport Traffic Report. | |||||||||||||||
On August 9, 2021, head of the airport Vyacheslav Khoroneko was put in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the USA. He got a punishment as a person who made it possible to land Ryanair Flight 4978 at the airport on May 23, 2021.
References
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Minsk National Airport, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.