Uytash Airport

Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) (IATA: MCX, ICAO: URML) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and just south of the city of Kaspiysk which is on the west side of the Caspian Sea. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.^[2]

Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash" Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ"
IATA: MCX ICAO: URML
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Russian Federation
Operator	Civil Government
Serves	Makhachkala
Location	Makhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia
Time zone	Moscow Time (+4)
Elevation AMSL	12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E
Website	www.mcx.aero
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 2,640 8,662 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 1,290,000
Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1]

South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.^[3][4]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo Seasonal: Cheboksary[5]
Azimuth	Mineralnye Vody, Perm, Sochi[6]
Belavia	Seasonal: Minsk[7]
Flydubai	Dubai–International
IrAero	Seasonal: Sochi[8]
NordStar	Moscow–Domodedovo
Nordwind Airlines	Kazan, Ufa Seasonal: Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Perm,[9] Saint Petersburg, Surgut[10]
Pobeda	Abu Dhabi,[11] Dubai–Al Maktoum,[12] Istanbul,[13] Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[14] Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg, Surgut
Red Wings Airlines	Bishkek, Bukhara, Chelyabinsk,[15] Moscow–Zhukovsky,[16] Namangan, Novy Urengoy, Saint Petersburg, Samara,[17] Saratov,[18] Sharjah, Tashkent, Tyumen, Urgench, Volgograd,[19] Yekaterinburg, Yerevan[20] Seasonal: Naryan-Mar[19] Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[21]
Rossiya	Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo
SCAT Airlines	Aqtau
Severstal Avia	Cherepovets Seasonal: Petrozavodsk[22] Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka[23]
Smartavia	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Ural Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo
Utair	Moscow–Vnukovo[24]
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent[25]

Accidents and incidents

• On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft collided and caught fire.
• On 4 December 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to Makhachkala, crash landed at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died.
• On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful.^[26] Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities.^[27] This event, sparked by false rumors about the arrival of Israeli refugees,^[28][29] occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Local authorities blamed the Morning of Dagestan channel on Telegram, as well as Ukraine and Ilya Ponomarev, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country".^[30] Ponomarev denied any connection to the Morning of Dagestan,^[31] while Morning of Dagestan itself attributed the story of their connection to Ponomarev to "FSB mad dogs"^[32] as well as confusion between the Morning of Dagestan channel and Ponomarev's February Morning channel.^[33]

See also

• Russia portal
• Aviation portal

• List of the busiest airports in Russia
• List of the busiest airports in Europe
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR