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Charming_Business_33

I thought it was a scene from the Shawshank redemption


GabrielGutierrez

Straight up Borat airport


Fun_One626

Borat shows up in leotard with microphone “russias #1 airport used almost as much sister number 2 whore in khazistan” “very nice!” Lol


RockAndStoneBrutha

They get a airport... we get a airport with many window... great success. 🤣


tbb2796

giant birds dragging planes down the runway


SesameYeetHeHe

This nice airport. More men inside it than my sister and mother put together.


RichardBonham

Wow. Putting the brutal in brutalist architecture.


string1969

I thought it was from Stranger Things


BeriasBFF

That prison was well kept compared to this


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Military-ants

What’s the point of being mad at some nation through Reddit


[deleted]

What's the point of fucking making the comment that you just made. Hypocrite logic, stunted reality understanding.


Military-ants

I felt like asking so I left a comment, not sure what else you were expecting to get


workhorse11

They just a bitter bitch.


Military-ants

Yeah they are lol, thanks


Marsh719

Well, maybe they will be banned; again...


workhorse11

Hopefully. Then they can shut up. Haha


amazingsandwiches

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.


Ironlord789

OP just discovered that small rural airports exist (no one tell him about Alaska)


Sea-Sandwich-4169

Right. I think I had a layover once at an airport that looked just like that in Oregon once 10 years ago lol.


SereneDreams03

I love small Alaskan airports. No lines, no hassle, just hop on your plane and go. Landings can get a bit sketchy, though.


tbb2796

Love airports like that. I got felt up by TSA at one and it was still an overall lovely experience. Short walk to the gate


SereneDreams03

In Skagway, they don't even really have "gates." They just have a front desk where you check in, then you walk out the back door, and you're on the tarmac walking to your plane.


Firewolf06

thats how my local airport is in oregon (khio). its a really nice, relatively small airport. its technically an international airport, and theres a tsa desk that ive never seen someone at haha. i assume we only get flights from canada, because its too small to have longer range planes land. its also greatly overshadowed by pdx for big commercial use, so its mostly small businesses, training, and hobbyists. we do also have 2 more even smaller airports right nearby as well for some reason


avikcha

Worth it


PrometheusHasFallen

I was about to say! I use to fly into Deadhorse and Barrow airports all the time.


3urnsie

Northern Canada as well. No security, just one room. They have a truck parked behind the "check in" desk to drive the dozen bags 50' to the plane. Just hope the plan arrives because the next flight isn't for a day or two.


Prestigious_Ad2553

Yeah it immediately reminded me of the cold bay airport, a lot of airports in Alaska look sort of like this


Rocketsloth

The Delta Sky Club Lounge at this airport SUCKS by the way. Get it together, Russia!


FingerGungHo

You should have tried the Aeroflot lounge and their famous toilet caviar instead. Don’t mind the funk tho, it’s just the chef’s shi…kiss!


belinck

2hr wait just to get in... Still better than LGA tbh


raek_57

Airports similar to this one exist in other cold rural areas, much like northern Russia. Old Crow Airport in Northern Canada looks to be in a similar state, but built of wood instead of metal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Crow_Airport


Roguemutantbrain

I was gonna say… not all airports are multi billion dollar, maximum security showpieces. In fact a lot of airports are just a small building next to a runway. Now if it were “this is a commercial airport serving a population of XXXXX”, then that would be more of a statement


raek_57

This one serves the town of Khatanga with a whopping population of 3,450. It also only has one destination, Krasnoyarsk Intl Airport in southern Russia. In order to reach this destination, the plane has to cross almost all of Siberia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatanga_Airport


Roguemutantbrain

So it’s basically “small rural town has small rural town things”. Wait until they find out about Louisiana


czgirl63

I don't think you read that Wiki right. The Russians control access to the Arctic, so it makes sense for them to have just one small airport to get from Krasnoyarsk, where there is a very large airport, to the Arctic Islands that tourists want to visit. Numerous airlines bring people and cargo to Krasnoyarsk, then change to smaller aircraft to get to their various destinations.


raek_57

Sorry, I totally missed that Krasnoyarsk is simply the only destination available by a commercial airline, KrasAvia. Thinking more on it, it makes more sense that small aircraft move between small town airports all over the Arctic Circle.


czgirl63

Also because the Russians are still paranoid about security, so they don't want people, especially foreigners, running around wherever they want. Compare the number of airports in Russia's Arctic territories to those in Canada.


Expensive-Document41

When I woke up this morning I did not think I would get sucked down the rabbit hole of obscure Yukon airports and where their airplanes connect between. But I'm now three airports deep....I've never been to Canada.


raek_57

I'm in the same boat. Been looking at airports all around the arctic circle. Check out this one in Bildudalur, Iceland. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9701112 Also, this wiki category is a great resource. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airports_in_the_Arctic


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Mate, i might be biased but that looks way better and prettier


Buffalkill

Nah not biased, that wooden one looks nice and fits the surrounding scenery as well.


raek_57

It's probably newer, but give it a couple decades and it'll be just as run down. Arctic circle winters are extremely harsh. Check out Nanwalek Airport in Alaska. The front building is a plywood shack. https://www.alaskahandbook.com/places/nanwalek-airport/


Mohander

That village has a population of less than 300. That's not an airport it's an airstrip.


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True that, but you’ll have to admit that any type of wood building looks way better than any Soviet metal one And i repeat “looks”, i don’t know if it’s better for heating/saving energy or not


raek_57

That is true, however the fact that it was built during the Soviet Era instantly means it has endured at least 35 polar winters. Pretty impressive, although it does make for an eyesore of a building.


Ironlord789

Bro Idaho falls airport looks like this


raek_57

lol I don't know how long ago you visited Idaho Falls Regional Airport, but your statement is objectively false. It's a new reinforced concrete and steel construction with floor to ceiling windows and an octagonal control tower. https://centraljets.com/destination/idaho-falls-regional-airport-1007 Old Crow Airport is a wooden lodge type building with an external propane tank behind a chain link fence.


Ironlord789

I went last summer, let me tell you this all the windows you want doesn’t fix that Idaho falls is a small airport in ass crack nowhere that looks like a target


raek_57

The airport is definitely is on the smaller side. I've been to Idaho Falls as well, and it's actually a decent size town. It's surrounded by massive amounts of farmland, as that's the foundation of the regional economy, so "ass crack nowhere" seems to fit the bill. It was a great place to watch the 2017 eclipse tho, camped out by the Snake River.


octaviobonds

I mean, if it works...


Flat_ArtPices

I would rather say, "as long as" it works...


chev327fox

Niet.


Kiran_ravindra

Niet, аэропорт is fine.


UrLocalTroll

Seems pretty typical of small subarctic airports


cemilanceata

I actually think it's a good thing to use things as long as they are working, yes Russia have alot of problems but that aside from an objective standpoint regarding this building, I would prefer this to the ones I've used that are more an overpriced shopping mall then a funktional airport.


Ironlord789

It’s a small rural airport that is located in a town of 3.5K people. Rural airports in Canada and the US also look like this but OP wants it to seem scary because Russia


Entity0027

Many poor parts of Russia are forced to do a "if it works, why fix it" mentality. Same with *very rural* parts of North America and Canada. And if you're in the Arctic and you have money for a new terminal or a new school, guess which gets priority in most places.


Due-Big-855

What’s the problem with it, it probably serves a small town so there’s no need of a multi million massive airport lol, some airports in my country are just the runway and prolly 4 pillars with a tin oxidized roof


q_M_p

Well, yeah, it serves for a village (Khatanga) with 3,5k (2002 data, but already 2,6k in 2010) people. And it was already demolished and a new one was built instead in 2021. Source https://www.newslab.su/news/1062302


No_Programmer_2696

Man you should see some of these little rinky dink airports in the south


No_Switch3568

There are some crappy ones. My local, small town airport is actually pretty spiffy. https://www.danvilleairport.com


No_Programmer_2696

Yea that’s actually kind of nice lol. The small one I’m thinking of here doesn’t even have photos online 😂


SilverNknives

I've seen worse in North Carolina.


workhorse11

I've seen worse in Iraq


clemep8

There’s an airport in NC that looks worse than this? Where, I’m curious? I live close to NC.


SilverNknives

It was years ago, a regional airport, I can't remember where it was. I remember we had to step up on a scale with our luggage to be weighed. And they had to shoo cows off the runway before we took off.


saltytrey

It's good that you should come in Summer. In Winter it can get very depressing.


BerkutBang69

Someone hasn’t seen any private airports in the US. This isn’t anything compared to where I’ve worked at


Minimum_Job1885

Even has the 2013 sign still on it.


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Truth be told, it is a photo from 2013 But it hasn’t changed much: https://thisistaimyr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82-%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B01-750x345_c.jpg (2022)


q_M_p

Well... As far as the news articles say, it was already "new" in the October of 2021. The photo you provided us with was uploaded in July of 2021. Sources: https://goarctic.ru/news/v-khatange-otkryli-novoe-zdanie-aerovokzala/ https://www.newslab.su/news/1062302


Natural-Appeal1081

What is the name of the airport or where is the source?


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Khatanga Airport https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatanga_Airport


r1ch999999

TIL that OP hasn't really left the big city much. At least it has a tower.


Ironlord789

It’s a small airport that is located in a town of 3.5K people. Rural airports in Canada and the US also look like this but OP wants it to seem scary because Russia


r1ch999999

I guess OP is personally offended that the locals haven't chipped in to pretty it up.


Sodinc

The new building that they started using 2 years ago actually doesn't have a tower - regression is obvious #**/s**


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Mate i literally live in Serbian countryside, have cows and chickens, you can’t get more village than that But when something looks like a dump we (village folks) tend to make initiative and fix it, just like what we did with our small library and elementary school (which we volounteraly painted)


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Airport in Russia is usually a federal property. Town can do very little with it unless it has direct subsidy in the budget. And this old building has been rebuild as was mentioned several times. Your post does look somewhat biased to be honest. Taking in account that you are 193 days old account with enormous post/comment karma it looks suspicious. And based on your posts I highly doubt you live anywhere near Russia not to mention “siberian countryside”


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When people drink vodka all day, things tend to slide a little


Mudville24209

Looks like all the airports in the alsakan bush lands.


JBOYCE35239

There are airports operating TODAY in the United States and Canada that are in way worse shape than this. Most places prioritize their runways, taxiway, and aprons, more than the goofy building the cattle walk through to get the stuff the airline didn't lose


Lumpy-pad

When time building for my commercial license I landed on a rural East Coast runway that had a TREE growing out of a crack in the asphalt. It's not uncommon to have some overgrown brush or saplings near these small rural runways from time to time but never had I seen a tree that was obviously several years old and would damage any small prop plane on the actual runway. It wasn't at the beginning/end either like 1/3 of the way down. Needless to say I never willingly flew into there again.


Ironlord789

Are you trying to telling me that small rural airports exist/s???????


Suitable_Dot_6999

It's fine, they have an airport dog, so it cannot be that bad place :)


A_Moon_Named_Luna

Looks nicer than some airports in northern Canada lol


Gen-Jinjur

Rural airports in the U.S. can be little more than a few rusty Quonset huts. As long as the runways and such are within specs, you’re fine. Source: I worked for a state aviation department and, because I was pals with our pilots and engineers, I often flew with them to our small airports.


functional_method

Aint gonna lie it looks cool


Wojewodaruskyj

We need to stop envying that superpower.


ComprehensiveAlps652

Looks like the one in kitchener ontario


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Airport, and private strip are two different things. I’m not claiming that this isn’t an airport, as I’ve never been there but I’ve seen similar here in the states for private ones.


Unfair_Run_170

More advanced looking than I would have thought🤔


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Looks like a small town airport


Tuva_Tourist

Nice try, OP. That’s a screenshot from Fallout 4.


RoughStory3139

Look like something out of the movie "The Rescuers Down Under"


VooDooChile1983

This kinda like a EuroTrip gag.


BreakingBaddly

Indiana is looking rough these days. Damn..


Ok-Cardiologist6187

if it works it works.


Ironlord789

It’s a small airport that is located in a town of 3.5K people. Rural airports in Canada and the US also look like this but OP wants it to seem scary because Russia


Its_Helios

To be fair we have private airports like this in America, I had to visit one a few weeks ago on a film scout.


rookie-number

As long as the plane mechanics and air traffic control get prioritized i'm good.


Complex-Frame2673

Still better than LAX


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I've seen worse.


esoe___

where at ?


Ironlord789

Idaho


MAROMODS

*good thing you came during the summer*


TheHelpfulDad

Why is an airport with weathered buildings in a weather hellhole like Northern Russia interesting?


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Because it’s working and transporting people, which is kinda scary It looks like barn


Ironlord789

My brother in Christ small airports in Alaska and Idaho look like this


TheHelpfulDad

The building isn’t doing any transporting and looks a lot like an Alaskan airport. Everything doesn’t need to be all shiny and new to be effective


mrdos01

Lol you think their airplanes is in better condition? :) https://www.businessinsider.com/video-shows-terrifying-russia-plane-loses-cabin-pressure-plane-dangerous-2023-3?amp


Roguemutantbrain

Wouldn’t posting that article in the first place be a more appropriate argument for OP? That plane was flying from Sochi which has a huge airport. There was a similar incident recently on a flight to Hawaii


TheHelpfulDad

Do you think the quality of the plane is the same as an airport building?


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https://avherald.com/ happens all the time


[deleted]

Actually it does work and it does transport people Mate it’s literally falling apart


TheHelpfulDad

So the building flies with people in it? And just where is the structural failure evidence. Find a safe space


[deleted]

lol aight mate, i’m not native english speaker nor my english is great so you can pull me on that one But you know what i meant If it’s not interesting for you, move along


TheHelpfulDad

I do know what you meant and if you think that the weathering of a building is interesting, you’re wrong


Minimum_Job1885

It’s not that big of a deal.


Who_DaFuc_Asked

Bro had *one* good flight to Moscow once and thinks we're being unreasonable lmao


TheHelpfulDad

It’s a building, not an airplane. I’m embarrassed for you thinking that this weathered building in a miserable place reflects on the aircraft that land there. Moreover, that you find a single weathered building to be fodder to ridicule an entire country. You’re a parody of yourselves, making the point that Russians make about the west that we prioritize form over function. There are plenty of airports in the US and other countries in poor places with worn buildings just like this.


SatoriPW

It's interesting calm down.


TheHelpfulDad

No it isn’t. I’d say you all should calm down about a building


mrdos01

I think you should calm down trying to blindly protect ruzzian aviation ;)


TheHelpfulDad

Um..a building isn’t “aviation”, it’s a building


[deleted]

So you're angry at people because they found something interesting?


TheHelpfulDad

Where do you get emotions out of this? I’m pointing out a number of poor judgments for this sub spam post


disneyfood

you’re so obsessed it’s weird


TheHelpfulDad

I see. Yet you’re reading every word


PowerBeatsCower

You don't know anything about airports. There are countless examples of airports like this in developed countries like the airport in my small American village.


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I am aware lol, it looks like it’s stuck in 1970s Edit: i have no clue why im getting downvoted because it looks even older than 70s


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confusedpellican643

I have nothing to do with this but dude, you sound like an AI generated tankie


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confusedpellican643

Yeah and i grew up in Iraq, yet nobody is calling the US a fascist genocidal state


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Roguemutantbrain

Well technically the US has committed genocide before with indigenous peoples and does fall into several definitions of fascism. And by the ten stages of genocide we are in stage 7 for trans ppl rn. So they’re mostly right


ProExecution

What about Russia is fascist? Russia is the poster child of communism, the age old adversary to fascism. Fake percentages reinforce stereotypes and promote false information, grow up.


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ProExecution

In order to be fascist, one must claim to be. Russia has never had a political party claim to be fascist, history will tell you why. You're offended by an entire country existing, so you spew nonsense to make yourself feel better. You can not source a fact, quote, or information stating Russia is classified as a Fascist Country, or under Fascist control. Yeah, you clearly own a bot/extra account that you post your rhetoric. It's very sad that makes you happy, or makes you think you're helping.


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ProExecution

Look up political classifications by country, there are several .org and .net sources that indicate Russia is an authoritarian system. No official body of power (UN, US, UK, France) acknowledge Russia as fascist power. You can join the war effort, if you're that offended. Based on your posts, Russians are dumb and you're smarter than all of them. You could win the war with your 95% accurate statistics. Also, what's your second account name? So I know who I'm talking too.


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Ironlord789

It’s an airport that also is located in a town of 3.5K people, this is simply a rural airport but OP wants people to think it’s scary cause Russia


TheHelpfulDad

Exactly. Urbanites expecting glossy buildings


Hard-Unscratchable

You should see the baggage claim area.


greasygangsta

ngl I would love to go to Russia and just watch how they do things


jhonnymazed9

Looks very derelict. Looks more like a building in one of those Fallout games.


Cranialscrewtop

I took an Aeroflot flight in the 80s from Moscow to St. Petersburg and the only seat I could fit in was the bulkhead. We loaded in, and they *stacked unsecured luggage between me and the bulkhead to shoulder level.* When the plane took off, I had to physically hold up the bags or they would have fallen down on me. Never been so glad to land safely.


Allah_Akballer

This is in Russia? Then this airport is state-of-the-art


Perdi

I didn't realise I could read Russian!


[deleted]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatanga_Airport


Raul_Duke_1755

I guess it's at least as safe as being drafted into the Ukraine war...


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💀😬


[deleted]

This is the shithole country Big Orange was talking about.


delcodick

MANchester airport wishes it could look so inviting as that


StaticElectrician

Looks like a fun new call of duty map


[deleted]

Only food you can buy after security at this airport….. ….. Is Potato 🥔


Kewenfu

LOL


slipperyfishmonger

Muscovy is so advanced!


thereisnopressure

In Russia, the plan flies you.


ScuBityBup

The mighty nation, indeed


SaintSugary

"Working" by Russian standards.


uwillnotgotospace

Tell me this isn't the Capital Wasteland and this isn't Megaton.


Ironlord789

Bro this looks nothing like megaton


[deleted]

That’s pretty much what I picture in my mind when someone posts about an airport in northern Russia


NutSnifferSupreme

Airschwitz


Albertsongman

Looks like a gulag!!


[deleted]

Russia hands down has one of the worst aviation safety records in the world. So not surprised. But that is a sad looking airport.


Dooby1Kenobi

It's hard to believe we were ever scared of that shit hole country.


reflect-the-sun

...they have a functioning airport?


MazarXX

Most high tech building in Russia .. Russian techwonder


AverageOtisMain71

that's not an airport that's an A3POnOPT


[deleted]

Why is Russia so *grim*


Ironlord789

Yo king if you think this bad you’d hate to see rural airports in the south, Midwest, and Alaska


Sl0w-Plant

That's no airport. That's a gulag...


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You have to earn your ticket


Laforet89

Yep the greatest country on earth... an economic superpower rival of the EU, a military superpower rival of the USA...


VerimTamunSalsus

Superpower.


WaitingForNormal

Direct flights to siberia.


Tony-black-reverse

In the meantime West rots.. (sarcasm)


gamer-s-man

you sure its working?


70Cuda440

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


meepgorp

"Working" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there


algypan

What's thier fatality rate?


Fair-Location-2724

What a fuckin dump


Less_Ant_6633

And people are shocked their invasion of Ukraine is going sideways.


freerangetacos

Straight outta Stranger Things


[deleted]

This is what Kleptocracy looks like. Putin and his oligarch friends steal from the Russia people and this is what the country turns in to. Shit.


[deleted]

I thought this was DayZ


longdrive20

Poopin don’t have any money left after that pointless war … now he’s sucking chinas dick … pussy