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Khrabrovo Airport is the airport of Kaliningrad, located 24km north of the city near the village of Khrabrovo. While it mostly serves scheduled domestic destinations, part of it is still a military base of the Russian Air Force.History 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft starts flights on first scheduled international route, from Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow 1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR 1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin 1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo 1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad 1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity 1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased 1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia” 2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership 2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment 2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia” 2007 - opening of the new terminal 2009 - "KD Avia" airlines cease operations In July 2016, Novaport bought the Khrabrovo Airport from Aeroinvest.Passengers statisticsPassenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes: 2002 - 163,0002003 - 115,0002004 - 209,0002005 - 311,0002006 - 731,6262007 - 1,204,0602008 - 1,920,0002009 - 1,357,0002010 - 1,023,990 2011 - 1,229,0172014 - 1,460,054
