Chersky Airport (also Cherskiy) (IATA: CYX, ICAO: UESS) is a small airport in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south of the settlement of Chersky.

In November 1934, according to the action plan for the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a group of flight and technical personnel with five R-5 and two U-2 aircraft were delivered to Providence Bay, and in March 1935 the aircraft were transported to Cape Schmidt, where the preparation of their base for flights between the settlements of Anadyr, Provideniya, Vankarem, Cape Schmidt.

The first unpaved airfield was built on Vankin Island, 25 km from Nizhniye Kresty, but later a flat place was found on the spit of the Panteleikha River, where the airfield is now located.

[2] For their great contribution to aviation support for the navigation of sea vessels, scientific drifting stations "North Pole", servicing the northern regions and in connection with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Northern Sea Route, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR on December 16, 1982, KIOAO of the Yakut Civil Aviation Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.

[1] In 1996, KIOAO (which already included 6 airports: Tiksi, Chokurdakh, Srednekolymsk, Zyryanka, Belaya Gora, Chersky) was renamed to the Arctic Aviation Enterprise, then (in 1998) - the Chersky branch of the state unitary enterprise "Polar Airlines", and in 2001 the state unitary enterprise “Chersky Airport” was formed.