PLXUASS

Semei International Airport

Semey, Kazakhstan · Asia

Asia Asia/Qyzylorda

3direct destinations

2airlines

2runways

3,096 mLongest runway

Semei International Airport (Kazakh: Semei Halyqaralyq Äuejaiy) (IATA: PLX, ICAO: UASS), formerly New Semei (Kazakh: Jañasemei) and named after Abai Qunanbaiuly, is an airport in Semei, Kazakhstan, located 10 km (6.2 mi) south-west of the city. It services large airliners. The airfield contains two groups of alert fighter pads. A 400 m (1,300 ft) overrun exists at each end of runway 08/26. Established in 1929, it is Kazakhstan's oldest international airport. In 1960, the 356th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO of the Soviet Air Defence Forces arrived at the base from Irkutsk. Equipped with MiG-17s and Yak-25s, it was placed under the 33rd Air Defence Division, 14th Independent Air Defence Army. It was later equipped with both the Tupolev Tu-128 and MiG-31. Declassified CIA documents indicate that in the late 1960s, during the height of the Sino-Soviet split, the Soviet Union used this airfield as a bomber staging base for Chinese targets, and at times the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder was identified here.

Location

50.351°N, 80.234°E · 232 m s. n. m. (761 ft)

General data

CountryKazakhstan

CitySemey

IATA codePLX

ICAO codeUASS

Coordinates50.351°N, 80.234°E

Elevation232 m s. n. m. (761 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Qyzylorda

Runways2

Longest runway3,096 m

Direct destinations3

Official website

Runways · 2

08/26

Length3,096 m10,157 ft

Width44 m144 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lighted✓

02/20

Length997 m3,271 ft

Width77 m253 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Tower

128.000

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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 2

Other airlines with direct routes

FlyArystan SCAT Airlines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Yakov Fedorov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · view original

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Semei International Airport (PLX). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PLX

MLA

“Semei International Airport (PLX).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PLX. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_plx,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Semei International Airport (PLX)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PLX},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PLX}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-19},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}

Wikipedia

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