Ugolny Airport

Ugolny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Угольный) (also Leninka, Ugolnyye Kopi, Ugolnoye) (IATA: DYR, ICAO: UHMA) is a mixed-use military and civil airfield in the Russian Far East located 11 km east of Anadyr, separated from the town by the waters of Anadyrsky Liman.

[citation needed] On 3 January 2020, United States pilot Matt Guthmiller posted a video of his experience entering the Chukotka Autonomous region without the correct documentation after landing his plane at DYR.

[2] Owing to its geographic location, its long, concrete-reinforced, heavy load-bearing runway, as well as its modern terminal with jet bridges, the airport is well-suited and well-situated for emergency diversion at roughly the midpoint of the northern trans-Pacific routes.

Transport by summer is by boat, by winter by a road on the ice, and for a period in spring and fall, only by helicopter.

Anadyr has also been a prominent base for Soviet Air Defence Forces due to its close proximity to Alaskan airspace.