Beginning in 1950 to support the industrial giant now known as Norilsk Nickel, the Nadezhda Airport (Russian: аэропорт «Надежда») began as a Class 3 facility in the Civil Air Fleet with a Seaplane Base "Valek".

[2][3] Nearest airports and the distance to them: Satellite imagery from Google Earth on 2014-06-25 shows large areas of the runway inundated with water from the river, leaving approximately 400 Meters available.

An image from 2016-07-15 show the waters receded, runway areas covered with silt, with only one of the four airplanes parked.

An image from 2018-07-14 shows areas of the runway appear to remain inoperable due to water in low lying pools, leaving perhaps 800 Meters hypothetically available.

Parked helicopters have varied throughout these years of images, giving the impression this airport now mostly, or entirely, serves vertical Take Off/Landing or STOL aircraft.