Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport
Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport
Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (Yakut: ?????? ?????????? ??????? ??? ?????????? ?????????? ????????, romanized: Platon Oyuunuskay aat?nan aan doydutaa?? Cokuuskay aeroport, Yakut pronunciation: [d??oqu?s?qaj ae?o?po?t]; Russian: ????????????? ???????? ?????? ????? ??????? ?????????, Mezhdunarodnyj aeroport Yakutsk imeni Platona Ojunskogo) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour. The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines.
Location
62.093°N, 129.771°E · 99 m s. n. m. (325 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 5
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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.
History
Construction of the airport started in 1931, and it was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4. The airport is named after Platon Oyunsky, a Yakut writer killed during the Great Purge. As early as 2003 and as recent as 2017, the airport has been used by Boeing for certification and cold weather testing of its aircraft.
Airlines operating here · 6
Airlines using it as a main base (hub)
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (YKS). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YKS
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Chicago
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (YKS)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YKS},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/YKS}},
urldate = {2026-10-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}Wikipedia
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