| Petrozavodsk Airport | |
| Nativename: | Petroskoin Lendoazema |
| Nativename-A: | Аэропорт Петрозаводск |
| Iata: | PES |
| Icao: | ULPB |
| Type: | Civil/military |
| Operator: | Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia |
| City-Served: | Petrozavodsk |
| Location: | Besovets, Republic of Karelia, Russia |
| Elevation-F: | 151 |
| Elevation-M: | 46 |
| Coordinates: | 61.885°N 34.1567°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Karelia#Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Republic of Karelia, Russia |
| Pushpin Label: | Petrozavodsk |
| Website: | karelavia.ru |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 01/19 |
| R1-Length-F: | 8,202 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,500 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Petrozavodsk Airport (ru|Аэропорт Петрозаводск, krl|Petroskoin lendoazema, fi|Petroskoin lentoasema; ; ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.
The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s, Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s, it was home to the 991st Fighter Aviation Regiment (991 IAP), which flew Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat' aircraft. In 1992–93, the 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army.[1] It now flies the Sukhoi Su-35S aircraft and is now part of the 105th Guards Mixed Aviation Division, 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[2]
On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of Runway 01 at Petrozavodsk Airport, while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.[3]