<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Koltsovo International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Koltsovo's original aerodrome was constructed between 1928 and 1930 at the behest of the Air Force Institute of the USSR.[8] It was primarily built as a military aerodrome. In 1932, the 33rd air division, formerly belonging to the Privolzhsky Military District, was transferred to the Koltsovo aerodrome;[8] the division was later redirected to the border with Finland during the Winter War. After Nazi Germany declared war on the USSR, entangling the Soviet Union into World War II, construction of a 1 km runway was announced. Construction began the next day and the runway was completed in three months, a record breaking time for the 1940s.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 15 May 1942, USSR's first jet engine plane, the BI-1, completed its maiden flight from Koltsovo airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The new aircraft was manually operated by Grigory Bakhchivadzhi. Six experimental flights were conducted on the BI-1, until, on the 7th flight, during maximum speed testing, the pilot lost control of the trajectory of the plane and crashed, resulting in Bakhchivadzhi's death. A 1:1 scale replica of the BI-1 jet plane was recreated in the front square of the airport in honour of the BI-1 and Grigory. The monument still stands.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 10 July 1943, the airport gained domestic status. This made Koltsovo the first airport in the USSR to have civil and military status at once. Flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow were conducted on a daily basis. In December 1943, on the way back from Tehran, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stayed overnight at the Koltsovo airport. During World War II the airport acted as a joint in the classified route between Fairbanks, Alaska and Moscow, Russia, in which C-47 aircraft were imported into the USSR. By January 1944, Koltsovo owned four aircraft, granted by the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation for the purpose of domestic flights: two LI-2 and two Junkers. After the surrender of Nazi Germany, Koltsovo was used as joint for the relocation of military aircraft to the Pacific Front for the combating of the Japanese Empire. Between 1943 and 1945, despite the extremely high traffic rates for an airport of such size, no airplane crashes were recorded.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">TRANSPORT Koltsovo International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The following means of transportation are available at Yekaterinburg Airport:</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Bus: </strong>Several buses serve Yekaterinburg Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Taxi: </strong> Get within 25 minutes to downtown Yekaterinburg by taxi.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Train: </strong> Koltsovo Express joints Yekaterinburg Airport with the main railway station in the city centre in 40 minutes.</p>
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