Grozny Airport

Airport “Grozny” (Chechen: Соьлжа-ГӀалан аэропорт, Russian: Аэропорт «Грозный») (IATA: GRV, ICAO: URMG) is an airport in Chechen Republic, Russia located 7.5 km north of Grozny. The aerodrome was accepted as suitable for international flights service, but current scheduled flights are to other areas in Russia only (Moscow and Surgut).

History

First Grozny Airport began its work in 1938, when the aircraft P-5 and U-2 started to be the first postal transportation and sanitary flights. After a while, started to be flying and for agriculture. Until 1977, Grozny airport had only a dirt runway, which could only such aircraft as the Li-2, IL-14, AN-24 and AN-10.

In 1977 was introduced the new airport complex action with artificial runway and basing speed passenger aircraft Tu-134, threw in the Chechen Republic with the regions of the USSR. The new airport was named "Airport North."

In the darkest hour of the war of 1990-2000. Airport several times changed its name:

1990 - Airport Sheikh Mansour 1995 - Airport North 1996 - Airport Sheikh Mansour 2000 - Airport North

Grozny

Grozny (Russian: Грозный; IPA: [ˈgroznɨj]; Chechen: Грозный) is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2010 Census, it had a population of 271,573; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census, but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989 Census.

Names

In Russian, "Grozny" means "fearsome", "awesome", or "redoubtable", the same word as in Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Terrible. While the official name in Chechen is the same, informally the city is known as "Соьлжа-Гӏала", which literally means "the city (гӏала) on the Sunzha River (Соьлжа)".

In 1996, during the First Chechen War, the Chechen separatists renamed the city Dzokhar-Ghala (Chechen: Джовхар-Гӏала), or Dzhokhar/Djohar for short, after Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In December 2005, the Chechen parliament voted to rename the city "Akhmadkala" (after Akhmad Kadyrov)—a proposition which was rejected by his son Ramzan Kadyrov, the prime minister and later President of the republic.

Grozny (horse)

Grozny (1995–2000) was a gray racehorse who won the Enlace Derby Nacional in 1998. He died in 2000.

References

Grozny (disambiguation)

Grozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia.

Grozny (masculine), Groznaya (feminine), or Groznoye (neuter) may also refer to: