The Prime Minister inspected the renovation of the airport complex and the runway during a working visit to the Amur Region.
Mikhail Mishustin visited the new terminal of Muravyov-Amursky (Ignatyevo) International Airport in Blagoveshchensk. With Director General of the Airports of Russia Management Company Yevgeny Chudnovsky
Mikhail Mishustin visited the new terminal of Muravyov-Amursky (Ignatyevo) International Airport in Blagoveshchensk. With Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexei Chekunkov, Minister of Transport Andrei Nikitin, Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov, and Director General of the Airports of Russia Management Company Yevgeny Chudnovsky
Mikhail Mishustin with Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov and Director General of the Airports of Russia Management Company Yevgeny Chudnovsky during a meeting in Blagoveshchensk airport
Mikhail Mishustin visited the new terminal of Muravyov-Amursky (Ignatyevo) International Airport in Blagoveshchensk. With Director General of the Airports of Russia Management Company Yevgeny Chudnovsky
The construction of a new airport in Blagoveshchensk began in 2023. As of now, structural steel erection of the new building and the installation of 3,000 square metres of wall sandwich panels have been completed. The assembly of façade and stained glass structures, and the installation of partitions and engineering structures are underway.
The surrounding territory is being improved. The parking lot will have a recreation area of over 5,500 square metres, with a canopied amphitheatre, a rock garden, benches and pavilions for luggage trolleys. The renovation of the airport landside will be completed in the third quarter of 2025.
The federally financed renovation of the airport complex is nearly finished. The new runway with artificial cover, 3,500 metres long and 45 metres wide, is already being used by all types of aircraft. It opened to traffic in December 2023. The new taxiway, platforms, purification facilities, rescue system and patrol road are being used as well.
A platform for light aircraft is being renovated. Two more taxiways are to open by the end of the year.
Over the past six years, passenger traffic at Blagoveshchensk airport has more than doubled, from 418,000 people in 2018 to 928,000 in 2024. It is expected to exceed one million passengers in 2025.
The renovation of the Blagoveshchensk-Bibikovo regional road, which connects the capital of the Amur Region with Ignatyevo International Airport, began in May 2025. Plans include the expansion of the road to four lanes with a flow divider, a comprehensive modernisation of engineering, external lighting, communications, electricity and heat systems, and the installation of stormwater drainage and water disposal systems.
The Blagoveshchensk-Bibikovo road from the capital to the town of Aeroport is the most congested route in the region.
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: No doubt that the core network, which we are being, is very important.
Quite recently, the President took part in opening a section of the M-12 Vostok (East) route. As you know, this route will link St Petersburg via Kazan and Yekaterinburg with Tyumen. There are plans to extend this motorway to Vladivostok. Certainly, it will be possible to finance this project from the federal budget and extra-budgetary sources.
As far as the region is concerned, about 80 kilometres of your routes are connected with this network, and 20 km are part of it. This network has tremendous significance for the Far East and for the connectivity of our territory. We will issue relevant instructions, so as not to waste time here. As you have noted, the contractor is quite strong. We must support him because people are waiting for this motorway; it is necessary not only for the airport, but to ensure connectivity around Blagoveshchensk and set up a transport hub.
The reconstruction of the Blagoveshchensk airport’s infrastructure and airports across the nation is very important. The recently completed terminals in Novokuznetsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Tyumen and Kavkazskiye Mineralniye Vody are already receiving passengers.
We are modernising the airport and airfield network, and we are building its components rather actively. In all, 20 runways were reconstructed in the past five years. We plan to upgrade an additional 20 runways, and 75 airport facilities should be reconstructed and modernised by 2030 on instructions from the President. This will make it possible to receive modern aircraft and improve domestic connectivity.
All plans should be strictly implemented. I regularly visit these facilities, and they recently opened the airport in Kavkazskiye Mineralniye Vody. This can’t help but make our people happy. Everyone will be waiting for your wonderful airport to open.
I would like to thank everyone involved in this work and colleagues managing these processes. I hope that everything will be done on time.
