Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise is an airline based in St Petersburg, Russia It also operates the Pulkovo Airport and is 100% state owned. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Pulkovo Airport (Аэропорт Пулково in Russian) (IATA Airport Code: LED / ICAO Airport Code : ULLI) is located 16 km south of St Petersburg, Russia. ...

Pulkovo Il-86 at Pulkovo Airport

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Code Data

• IATA Code: FV
• ICAO Code: PLK
• Callsign:Pulkovo

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History

The history of Pulkovo, named after the area where it is located along with the village of Pulkovo and famous Pulkovo Observatory (founded in 1839), began 24 June 1932 with the landing of two aircraft from Moscow at the newly-constructed Shosseynaya Airport south of Leningrad. June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. ...

Air travel expanded rapidly, and in 1939 Shosseynaya Airport operated 29 routes, carrying 6,305 passengers, 708 tons of cargo, and over 333 tons of mail. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The airport became known as "Pulkovo" in the late 1950s. The airport complex consists of two separate terminals which are so far away from each other than can they can be classified as separate airports.

Pulkovo Airlines used Aeroflot livery until ordered to change it in 1997 so to avoid confusion. Pulkovo Airlines joined IATA in June 2000. Aeroflot — Russian Airlines (Russian:Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии), or Aeroflot (Аэрофло́т), is the Russian national airline and is the biggest carrier in Russia. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

As of 2003, it employs about 7,000 workers. In the first half of 2003, it carried 911,563 passengers, of 515,720 were domestic and 395,843 international and CIS flights. It also carried 3,753.6 tons of cargo, of which 3,138.5 was domestic and 615.1 international and CIS (this last was an increase of 34% over the same period in 2002). 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

It is scheduled to merge with Rossiya Airlines in 2005. The merged entity will retain the Rossiya brand. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Services

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise operates the following services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Adler/Sochi, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Bratsk, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov, Samara, St Petersburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa and Vladivostok.

• International scheduled services: Almaty, Amsterdam, Athens, Baku, Beijing, Berlin, Bishkek, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dushanbe, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Istanbul, Karaganda, Kiev, London, Munich, Paris, Prague, Salzburg, Samarkand, Sofia, Stockholm, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv and Yerevan.

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Fleet

The Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise fleet consists of the following aircraft (at September 2005):

• 7 Ilyushin Il-86
• 11 Tupolev Tu-134A
• 7 Tupolev Tu-154B-2
• 19 Tupolev Tu-154M
• 2 Boeing 737-500

Il-86 of Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise at St. ... An Aeroflot Tu-134 sits on the tarmac The Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO reporting name Crusty) was a Russian twin-engined airliner, similar to the American Douglas DC-9. ... Overhead view of Tu-154 airliner, operated by Aeroflot at Moscow airport. ...

External links

• Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise
• Pulkovo Passenger Opinions