Abkhazia is famous for its natural wealth and low prices. Already that year she is the status of budget health, hospitably hosting vacationers of medium and small wealth. Another important advantage is that there is no visa to enter the country.
Holidays here are much cheaper than in the Peninsula Crimea or in Sochi, and the conditions are not inferior to anything famous resorts. Here you can enjoy the picturesque landscapes of the mountains, lakes, rivers and the sea. History lovers will find many interesting monuments of antiquity for themselves and will be able to admire the most beautiful architectural facilities. The spiritual heritage of the republic is represented by numerous monasteries.
Almost everyone who wants to visit this beautiful region is the question of: "What kind of transport is best to get? What airport in Abkhazia takes tourists?"
Existing airports of Abkhazia
Unfortunately, today it is not possible to get to Abkhazia direct flight. For several reasons, airways of the republic cannot accept passenger flights tourist destination. However, there are still airports in Abkhazia, which will soon have such functions.
Babushar
This is an Abkhazia Airport, which hosts civilian flights of an exclusively government. The airport is at the stage of international certification and so far it is not intended to receive passenger flights. Airplanes of Russian peacekeepers, UN aircraft and helicopters committed on his take-off strip. domestic flights. This is a strategically important airport of Abkhazia, but it is used in extreme cases. The distance from it to the capital is only 18 km away. The runway with a length of 3.64 km takes almost all types of civilian aircraft, whose weight does not exceed 125 tons. The location on the coastal territory of the colchis lowland allows you to receive aircraft from several sides. This airport Abkhazia is more profitable than the airport in Sochi.
Passengers are accepted in the old building, which was opened back in the 1960s. In the 1980s, began his existence of a new air terminal. In the mid-80s, it was decided to lengthen the take-off strip, and now they can land civil aircraft class airbus. The first flight was performed by the airbus IL-86 by the message Moscow - Sukhumi - Moscow. After a successful landing, the number of flights was increased to 3-4 per day.
In Soviet times, the airport in Sukhumi used as a spare platform such cities, such as Baku, Sochi, Simferopol, Krasnodar, Rostov, Yerevan and Mineral Waters.
The bandwidth of the terminal in peak summer time is about ten thousand passengers.
The biggest airport of Abkhazia has received its name from the village of Babushar's eponymous, near which it is located. Perhaps after receiving international certification, the airport will be able to take tourist flights.
Bumboo.
Quite quickly can be reached by taxi, which will take you to the border area. After passing customs control and paperwork on the territory of Abkhazia can use the services of private drivers or route taxi And get to the required resort, for example, to Sukhumi, GGR or Pitsunda.
The leadership of the country still leads work on the improvement of international transport junction. Perhaps, in a short time, tourists will have the opportunity to get to Abkhazia by air.
Babushar Airport serves the capital of Abkhazia by the city of Sukhum. It is located in the village of Babushar and wears the name V.G. Ardzinba Unfortunately, on this moment The airport is not operated, but soon it is planned to run it.
On the territory of the airfield there is one runway, its length is 3640 meters. The airport is able to accept such aircraft as IL-86, Tu-154 and lighter.
The airline is cooperating with the airline Abkhaz Airlines, as well as the United Nations Aviation.
The problem with the launch of the airport is that the ICAO organization cannot recognize it by international, while the Georgian authorities do not allow permission. Currently, the airport is sometimes used for flights of the first persons of Abkhazia and Russia.
History
The history of the airport in Sukhumi begins in the 60s of the last century. Then a new airfield was opened and the airport. In the 70s, the runway was reconstructed, which has increased the thickness of the coating. Next decades at the airport, a new passenger terminal was opened, and the runway was eliminated.
The new aircraft airport allowed to take an IL-86 aircraft, at that time regular flights on the Sukhum-Moscow route were made. In addition, a regular helicopter message was established from the airport between other cities of Abkhazia. Passenger traffic reached 6 thousand people per year.
The airport was closed in 1993, immediately after the conflict of Georgia and Abkhazia. On the territory of the airfield several aircraft were thrown. The runway was also mined.
After cleaning the territory of the airport from Min, local residents began to use free land in agricultural needs.
In 2008, during the war in South Ossetia, several landings were made to the territory of the airport, which were taken by Russian military aircraft, which were taken to the territory of Abkhazia military technique and assaults. In the same year, a passenger aircraft landed at the airfield, on board which was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
Hello everybody. I continue to publish my reports from Abkhazia. We have an abandoned airport in the village of Babushar near Sukhuma.
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The inscription scares, but we are not afraid, smoothly, as they are not afraid of cows. Inside everything is worn. 
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The history of the Sukhumi airport originates from the mid-1960s, when the building was built. In the late 1970s, increased the thickness of the concrete coating, which made it possible to make a heavier aircraft IL-76. In the 1980s, a new airport was built, and bullet band extended, which made it possible to accept the aircraft IL-86.
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Before the war, the airport was an important transport hub, there were flights to many of the USSR cities, and the helicopters flew to various settlements of Abkhazia.
The passenger turnover was in summer to 5 thousand passengers per day, in the winter to 1 thousand.
Sukhumi airport is able to take any passenger planes Weighing up to 125 tons of class airbus. The 1st class airfield has one artificial GDP with a length of 3.64 km. (One of the longest in the CIS) with enhanced concrete coating and the possibility of landing from 2 sides, which distinguishes it from the airport to Sochi. 
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Old photos Unfortunately, I did not find. But there is this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003d7Hwryut2yts. Video perfectly shows how everything was there. Check out the photo and video and compare.
The old building did not immediately become such a spent. It was even renovated in 1998-2000. It began to use it for their intended purpose, for some time a restaurant acted in it. In 1999, for the glazing of the walls of the second building of the Rostov-on-Don, which was going to use the Babushar Airport as a spare, put the Stekol party, but in July 2000, a tornado was held over the airfield, who knocked out several such stalks. Georgia closed air space Abkhazia, aircraft Created by a workaround route at the distance of 43-47 km from the Abkhaz coast. The airport is excluded from the current international collections of aeronautical information.
On August 11, 2008, during the war in South Ossetia, at the airport for the first time in 15 years, military transport aircraft of Russia, more than three dozen IL-76, who delivered paratroopers and military equipment were landing. On September 14, 2008, at the airport, the first in 15 years airliner is the aircraft of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. 
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The new airport building is currently repaired and looks new and attractive. Repairs ended in 2011, and flights had to start in 2013 but, unfortunately, the airport does not work. The fact is that the international organization civil aviation ICAO does not recognize the Sukhum airport as an international, since it recognizes the territorial integrity of Georgia; The sky over Abkhazia cannot be opened without the permission of the Georgian authorities, since it is, according to ICAO, violates international norms. ICAO has revoked the Sukhum airport code and seized information about it from its documents starting from the 12th edition from August 2006. Since then, the recording on the provision of code (renewal of its action) was not introduced. The airport is closed for an international message. Avia Companies Members of the International Air Union, IATA do not fly to Abkhazia. In order to avoid IATA sanctions russian airlines Also do not fly to Sukhum.
All this is sad enough. Now the building is absolutely new, but there is no crowd of passengers buying tickets and coming from the ladder of aircraft .... And only the Airborne Forces of Abkhazia are based at the airport (more precisely, that it remains from him), as well as small kesepuses flying in PSHA and private excursion aircraft. 
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Once upon this conveyor, the backpacks were driving and passengers were taken ... 
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Fly aeroflot airplanes. 
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Once people went here. Even there is a certain feeling de Mie Vu. I do not know, but for some reason the pictures of people walking here, who eat ice cream, read newspapers and stand in the queue for tickets, I am clearly visible. 
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Landing. 
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And here was kept luggage. 
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What is at the airport? 
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Cemetery of technology 
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The helicopter of the Air Force of Abkhazia. No longer takes off, no propeller. 
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These seems still flying. 
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Light attack aircraft L-39. 
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But the famous Yak-40 is the plane of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who flew during the war in Sukhumi in 1993. Felt on him could not, because Airplanes shot down and threw it at the airport. 
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In the first year of work, the first serious test came - a fire on board the aircraft and the need for a landing with one engine. For the impeccable performance of their duties in an emergency, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded with registered clock. There were many plans for hope - admission to the Law Institute, marriage with a school friend Vladimir Borisenko. In May 1970, Nadezhda came on vacation to his relatives. Agreed that the wedding will play on November or new Year holidays. And on October 15, the girl went to his last departure.Immediately after the hijacking in the USSR, there are stale messages TASS: "On October 15, the An-24 civil air fleet plane made a regular flight from the city of Batumi in Sukhumi. Two armed gangsters, applying weapons against the aircraft team, forced the plane to change the route and land on Turkey in the city of Trabzon. During the fight with the bandits, the aircraft conductor was killed, which tried to block the gangsters to the pilot cabin. Two pilots were injured. Passengers of the aircraft are invalid. The Soviet government appealed to the Turkish authorities with a request to issue killer criminals for legend to their Soviet court, as well as return the aircraft and Soviet citizens who were on board the An-24 aircraft.
At an altitude of 800 meters, two passengers - Father and the son of Brazinskasi caused a flight attendant and transferred a note for pilots with the requirement to change the route and fly to Turkey. The girl rushed to the cockpit and shouted: "Attack!" Criminals rushed after her by opening fire. "Do not get up to anyone!" He shouted the younger from the hijackers. - Otherwise we will blow up the plane! ". Soon the captured board crossed the Soviet-Turkish border, and after another half an hour turned out to be over the airfield in Trabzon. Passengers and crew members were invited to stay in Turkey, but no one agreed to it. The next day, on a specially sent by the plane of all people and the body of the deceased girl was taken out in the USSR. A little later, the Turks returned vague An-24. After returning from Turkey, the board was repairs at Kiev ARZ 410 and again flew in the Sukhumi airline with a photo Nadi Kurchenko in the cabin. In 1979, the plane was transferred to Samarkand where it was exploited until the full development of the resource and in 1997 they wrote off on scrap metal.
The name of the hope of one day was sheltered the whole world. And for many years it became a symbol of Komsomol herroism. In many schools of the USSR, the name of hope is called Komsomol and Pioneer detachments. Nadezhda Kurchenko was buried in the center of Sukhumi in the form of stewardess and with the Komsomol icon. In Sukhumi in her honor, the park was named and a memorial was installed. After 20 years, her grave was transferred to the urban cemetery of the city of Glazov at the request of her mother.
After the death of the flight attendants, passenger safety rules were radically changed, the rules for the inspection of passengers and baggage were introduced and the norms of laws against air terrorism were toughened not only in the USSR, but throughout the world. At airports, metal detectors and pre-flight inspection appeared, the border flights began to be accompanied by the armed guard "in civilian", the weapons began to issue a crew and a special article 211 - "hijacking an aircraft". The USSR has learned a lesson and from the reaction of West to the terrorist act of Brazinskas. In the leadership of the country, and especially in the KGB, which is this business, finally believed in the cave anti-communism and the antisoleism of Western elites. In the fight against dissidents within the USSR, the KGB increasingly began to be guided by the idea that "dissenting" - only a pawn in the hands of foreign special services.
In 1982, Gennady Bocharov wrote about the hope of a large detailed essay in the publication Young Guard http://apsnyteka.org/1319-bocharov_g_nadezhda_kurchenko.html
Abkhazia is one of the well-known and favorite resorts among Russian travelers. According to tradition, people with low and medium budget go there, and this country has a health status with inexpensive and affordable prices. Its characteristic advantages is the lack of barriers in the language, we do not need a visa, as well as an absolutely inexpensive price for rest.
It should be noted that rest in Abkhazia price Policy It will be much more profitable than in the Crimea or, well, the level is comparable to competitors.
- Here can be resting lovers of hiking through the mountains, bathing, affectionate sun and warm sea, Rice Lakes, whose feature there is a change in water color relative to the time of year.
- Worships of antiquity, traditions, culture and architecture This country can also be useful and interesting - a trip to Sukhumi.
- The main attraction is the New Athophone Monastery (Male Monastery). Here come here believers from many corners of the CIS.
Travel to Abkhazia - Gagra. The beauty of nature, gentle sea, the sun - the culture and traditions of the Abkhazians - all this will have to do with each
However, all travelers are interested in how it is better to get to this amazing and beautiful country? Of course, the plane. But is there an airport in Abkhazia? And if there is, where is the airport in Abkhazia and whether the flights are allowed there?
Many, even by following the links of the Internet, literally immediately fall in love with this amazing and picturesque country, everyone wants to taste national Kitchen Different dishes enjoy the rest, admire the majestic landscapes of the mountains.
The main resorts are Gagra, Pitsunda, Gudauta, New Athos And Sukhum is the capital of the country. But in which city the airport in Abkhazia, we will understand further.
Sukhum - the capital of Abkhazia, glad to welcome tourists, guests of the country
Airfields of the southern country
Let's figure it out in which cities of airports in Abkhazia?
Today are available two operating airports:
- Bumboo.. This battle airfield is located in the Gudauta region. He does not accept passenger ships And used exclusively for military purposes - for training.
- Another Abkhazia airport, whose name Babushar. This airfield is located in Sukhumi. However, due to the fact that he did not pass the international ICAO certification, the airport is forbidden to serve. The airfield is used exclusively as a last resort: for internal flights of helicopters, UN aviation and peacekeepers of the Russian Federation.
It should be concluded that the existing airports of Abkhazia, which is at least small, passenger airliners are not served.
Airports of Abkhazia today do not take civil courts
How to get on vacation
If it is forbidden to land the civil courts, then how can I get into the country and what is the nearest airport to Abkhazia?
This can be done land transport - Using a train or car. Many tourists who have to get from afar, and the final point of Abkhazia, the airport arrival for them in the phoshs - and already from there get terrestrial transport to Sukhumi or other resort.
One of the nearest airports to Abkhazia - Adler (Sochi)
So, how to get and what ways are feasible:
- Using a taxi (from the airfield to the border checkpoint - 9 km).
- Train (they make a departure twice a day).
- Using water transport (from Sochi to Gagra).
- Buses or minibuses (their departure is carried out from the bus station and the city center).
As can be seen, everything is quite simple and accessible. Adler Airport is one of the largest and innovative. Upon passing all the arrival services, coming out of the airport, you can immediately transfer to the bus and after half an hour or an hour you will be in the desired place.
Journey from Adler to Abkhazia can be carried out by terrestrial transport
Actually this is all information about the airfields of Abkhazia, about what methods. According to information from reliable sources, in the near future the authorities of the country planned the reconstruction of the airfield, therefore there is an opportunity to obtain the status of international from civil aviation.
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And finally, who else doubts, go or not, I want to say that Abkhazia is very friendly and hospitable countrywhich has his amazing, interesting ancient history, distinctive culture, interesting traditions, intertwined with delightful nature.
Such a state cannot but bring every tourist a lot of bright and positive impressions. Local are proud of their country, they love and honor their homeland, their nature, mountains, lakes, forests. It is here that the tourism industry is actively developing every year what many comfortable hotels, boarding houses and world service sanatoriums are being developed.
