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Tiksi (Russian: Ти́кси, IPA: [ˈtʲiksʲɪ]; Yakut: Тиксии, Tiksii – lit. a moorage place) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea, southeast of the delta of the Lena River.
Tiksi Aerodrome (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Russia, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States (as a so-called 'bounce' aerodrome [clarification needed]).
This is a list of airports in Russia (Russian Federation), sorted by location. As of September 2018 [update] , Russia had 227 operational airports registered by the Federal Air Transport Agency . [ 1 ]
This bay was first surveyed by Russian Arctic explorer Dmitry Laptev in 1739. It was then called "Gorely Bay". The name "Tiksi Bay" was adopted in 1878. [1]There is a cross at Tiksi Bay marking the place of death of U. S. whaling captain Thomas Long.
The Tiksi West complex, captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON satellite in 1974. Tiksi West (Tiksi-Zapadny) was a large air base in Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 7 km west of Tiksi. It appeared on Department of Defense navigation charts during the Cold War, and was listed as having a 13,500 ft (4100 metre) runway with jet capabilities. [1]
Tiksi North is a former Russian military airfield located 41 km north of Tiksi in Bulunsky District, Sakha Republic. [1] Described as a ghost airfield, its probable use was either as a diversion or dispersal airfield for Soviet bombers. [1] It was likely abandoned sometime in the early 1960s. [1]
Bykovsky (Russian: Быковский; Yakut: Быковскай, romanized: Bıkovskay) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Bykovsky Rural Okrug of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 80 kilometers (50 mi) from Tiksi, the administrative center of the district. [1]
Arbugaeva was born in Tiksi, [2] [3] a small port town of the Sakha Republic on the Arctic Sea, near the mouth of the Lena River.As part of the Soviet Union, Tiksi supported military airfields and became the world's most northern settlement with over 5000 people. [4]