Naryan-Mar Airport NNM / ULAM

Naryan-Mar is the only major airfield on the Barents Sea coast between Arkhangelsk and Novaya Zemlya and the sole scheduled-service air gateway to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a sparsely populated Arctic oil-and-gas region with almost no road connection to the rest of Russia; the airport is consequently a lifeline field for both scheduled passenger service and helicopter support of the region's oilfields. Scheduled carriers found operating in 2026 include Utair (Moscow, confirmed still bookable/scheduled), Smartavia (Arkhangelsk, flight 5N308, about 3x weekly, confirmed operating rather than merely announced) and RusLine (the historically most frequent operator, with a route network reported to include St Petersburg, Kazan, Kirov, Arkhangelsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Ufa, though the exact current-season route list was not reconfirmed flight-by-flight); Red Wings' seasonal Sochi/Makhachkala service found in earlier sources could not be reconfirmed as currently operating. The runway's ILS fit is disputed across sources: Russian Wikipedia describes Category II/III landing-system equipment 'from the 240 direction' (i.e. RWY 24), while a separate AIP-chart-derived flight-simulation/VATSIM-Russia source instead specifies a Category I localizer on RWY 24 only, at 109.500 MHz, with RWY 06 served only by RNAV/VOR/NDB/GNSS approaches and no ILS; given the specific frequency citation, CAT I is treated here as the better-supported figure, but this should be verified against a live Rosaviatsia AIP chart before any CAT II/III instrument-approach planning. Runway length is also given as 2,562 m by Russian Wikipedia and the same AIP-derived chart source (used here) versus a rounded 2,500 m in OurAirports and English Wikipedia -- a minor cross-source variance not expected to affect operational planning. Fuel is recorded as TS-1, the standard grade at domestic-only Russian regional fields since Western Jet A-1 majors exited the market post-2022; no airport-specific fuel-brand confirmation was located. The pax figure (183,127) is the last full-year total found in any accessible source and dates to 2017; no newer operator or Rosaviatsia full-year release was located, though current Utair and Smartavia bookings on 2026 schedules confirm the airport remains active with scheduled service despite the stale figure -- airlines should still treat current volumes as unconfirmed and contact the operator for recent trends. A publicly announced 2026-2030 runway/taxiway reconstruction program (covering taxiways 4-7 and the 'Transit' apron, budgeted at over RUB 10.14 billion -- about RUB 8.11bn federal and RUB 2.02bn investor funds, under a planned Rosaviatsia/operator concession) had, as of, still not started: the design-and-construction contract was reported as only planned to be signed by the end of 2026. Expect possible future NOTAM restrictions once work begins.