<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Turkmenabat International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">The original airport was opened in 1926 and was repeatedly reconstructed. Radical reconstruction took place during the years of independence of Turkmenistan. The former airport was equipped with a modern air navigation system along with a platform for automated fueling. The runway was also extended.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2"><strong>New Airport:</strong> In 2013 construction started on a new airport complex south of downtown Turkmenabat. The ceremony of laying the first stone on 14 February 2013 was attended by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Final construction was carried out by the Turkmen private construction firm G&uuml;ndogdy, a member of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan. The passenger terminal building occupies 37 thousand square meters.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">On 26 February 2018, the opening ceremony of the new airport took place, which President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow attended. The capacity of the airport complex is 500 passengers per hour. The runway is 3800 meters long and 65 meters wide, and is equipped with modern light-signal and meteorological systems. The airport is capable of accepting any type of aircraft. The airport cargo terminal is designed to handle 200 thousand tons of cargo per year. A centralized refueling station allows service of several aircraft simultaneously.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">The airport passenger terminal, the roof of which is shaped in an octagonal "star of Oguz Han", covers an area of more than 12 thousand square meters, and is noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest star-shaped building in the world.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 pt-5">Transportation Turkmenabat International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">The airport is located within the city limits, 13 kilometers from downtown Turkmenabat, in close proximity to the M37 Ashgabat-Turkmenabat highway and the Ashgabat-Kerki railway.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">T&uuml;rkmenabat (Turkmen: T&uuml;rkmenabat, Түркменабат), formerly and since medieval times Chardjuy, (Chardzhou, Russian: Чарджоу; Turkmen: &Ccedil;&auml;rjew, Чәрҗев) (Persian: چهارجوی 'čah&acirc;rjuy', meaning 'four brooks') and in ancient times Āmul, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the capital of Lebap Province. As of 2009, it had a population of approximately 254,000 people (up from 161,000 in the 1989 census). From 1924 to 1927 it was briefly renamed Leninsk in honor of Vladimir Lenin.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title="Transportation Turkmenabat International Airport" src="../../../main/img/airport/turkmen/t1.webp" alt="Transportation Turkmenabat International Airport"></p>