[3] The airport services airliners and helicopters of all sizes, including planes as large as the Boeing 747, and the Il-96.

In the Soviet period, there were regular flights to Moscow, Leningrad, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Ufa, Mineralnye Vody and other airports in the USSR.

On 10 October 1973, due to a malfunction of the fuel system, an Lisunov Li-2 plane crashed near the airport, killing five.

In 2013, building of an air traffic control tower with a height of 50 metres started along with main and connecting taxiways and an apron for aircraft worth $200 million.

[7][8] The project created an artificial runway length of 3800 metres, 5 taxiways and an apron for aircraft parking.