Nukus Airport


Nukus Airport is an airport serving Nukus, the capital city of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan. The airport services more than twenty passenger flights to other cities in Uzbekistan and CIS weekly.
During the Soviet period, it was home to a separate aviation test squadron supporting chemical weapons development, which flew flights to Zhaslyk airfield adjoining the Zhaslyk chemical weapons site.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has two runways, 15/33 measuring and 07/25 measuring.