Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · A resort airport built from 1969 as a secret military airfield, still shared with Russian military aviation.
A real-world airfield as described in public sources, and how sim maps represent it. Units, facilities and names change; each is dated where the sources allow, and the charts are not for navigation. Use current official publications for flight planning.
Location and identity
- Location
- 4 km east of Vityazevo and 15 km north-west of the centre of Anapa, Krasnodar Krai [2]
- Country or territory
- Russia
- Coordinates
- 45.0021° N, 37.3473° E [3]
- Identifiers
- ICAO URKA · IATA AAQ
- Opened
- the airfield was begun in 1969 as a military field and took its first regular passenger flight on 15 April 1974 [1] [2]
- Theatre
- The Caucasus
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Joint military and civil
- Roles today
- Civil airport
Runways and facilities
The sources do not date these figures. Facilities not listed here are not documented in the sources cited, which does not mean the airfield lacks them.
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Anapa (Vityazevo) International Airport (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway, with its name
- Apron
- Hangar or terminal
- Helipad
- Airfield boundary
Runways, taxiways, aprons and buildings inside the airfield boundary, true north up, drawn from OpenStreetMap data retrieved 2026-10-28. Widths come from the map data or, where it gives none, a typical 45 m runway and 18 m taxiway. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL 1.0. Community-mapped, not an official aerodrome chart, and not for navigation.
Sim maps
Represented in: DCS: Caucasus
DCS: Caucasus DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Anapa-Vityazevo” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]
Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.
Role today
Anapa is the airport of the Black Sea resort of Anapa, run by Basel Aero, and a joint-use airfield that Russian Ministry of Defence aircraft use from time to time. [1] [2] All civil flights have been suspended since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. [1] [2]
History
Anapa had scheduled flights from Krasnodar from 1934, first from a field on the town’s high shore. [1] [2] In 1969 work began on a new airfield near Vityazevo; at the Air Force’s insistence it was given a 2,500 m runway, and because military aircraft were to be based there the press was forbidden to mention it. [2] The first regular passenger flight landed on 15 April 1974, and on 11 May the first Moscow flight brought a group of NATO military attachés to the resort. [2] The airport was formally opened in June 1976. [1] [2]
On 9 September 1976 an An-24 and a Yak-40 collided over Anapa after an air traffic controller’s error, killing 70 people. [1] On 15 March 1982 a Black Sea Fleet An-26 crashed near Anapa, killing all eight aboard. [2] The runway was rebuilt from 2011, and a new terminal opened on 12 July 2017. [1] [2]
The airfield
Sources
- Anapa International Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapa_International_Airport (accessed 2026-10-28).
- Витязево (аэропорт) (Vityazevo airport). Russian Wikipedia (secondary source, in Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Витязево_(аэропорт) (accessed 2026-10-28). Joint basing with Ministry of Defence aviation, and the year-by-year history.
- Airport and runway data, URKA. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for URKA in airports.csv and runways.csv.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Anapa-Vityazevo.json). dcs-world-schema, open-source data extracted by running DCS World 2.9.30.28536. https://github.com/YoloWingPixie/dcs-world-schema/blob/c3091e6c08fb8167e26145d0e33c10e4140c6fe7/dcs-world-reference/latest/airbases/Caucasus/Anapa-Vityazevo.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Caucasus map page.
Wikipedia articles are secondary sources and can change; they are cited with the date they were read. FAA airport data and diagrams are official but are reissued every 28 or 56 days; each is cited with the edition read. pydcs mirrors the DCS terrain data at the commit linked.