Lensk Airport

Lensk Airport (Yakut: Лиэнскэй Аэропорт) (IATA: ULK, ICAO: UERL) is a public airport near Lensk in Sakha Republic.^[3] It works as focus city for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.

Lensk Airport Лиэнскэй Аэропорт
IATA: ULK ICAO: UERL LID: ЛСК
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Airports of the North[1]
Serves	Lensk
Location	Lensk, Russia
Elevation AMSL	801 ft / 244 m
Coordinates	60°43′14″N 114°49′33″E
Website	sever.aero/lensk]
Map
UERL Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 6,562 2,000 Gravel
Sources: Great Circle Mapper[2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise	Irkutsk, Yakutsk
IrAero	Irkutsk
Polar Airlines	Irkutsk, Yakutsk
Yakutia Airlines	Bratsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk

Accidents and incidents

• On 4 July 2012, a helicopter operated by UTair Aviation for an oil and gas company crashed in a remote area about 4 kilometers from the runway of Lensk Airport. The wreckage was found several hours later and three bodies were recovered, with the fourth person also presumed killed. The cause was not immediately known, but UTair grounded all aircraft at Lensk Airport pending an investigation into the quality of fuel supply at the airport.^[4]