Leg 134, Omsk, Russia, via Kazakhstan to Barnaul, Russia
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Last night’s flight was a magical winter wonderland tour. Lovely mountains with multiple layers of clouds in the low Northern sun. It was cold, -36F ground temperature!
01-02 Omsk East Z25X 9:25 PM
01-02 Tatarsk ZEG5 9:56 PM
01-02 Chany XNOR 10:12 PM
01-02 Kupino UKUP 10:26 PM
01-02 Slavgorod Severniy Air Base USLL 11:01 PM
01-02 Pavlodar UASP 11:27 PM
01-03 Kurchatov Airfield UAKC 12:07 AM Semipaltinsk, nuclear test site
01-03 Semipalatinsk UASS 12:46 AM
01-03 Ust-Kamenogorsk UASK 1:23 AM
01-03 Zubovsk UAMA 1:55 AM
01-03 Ust-Koksa UNBU 2:24 AM
01-03 Elekmona UNCX 3:07 AM Runway?
01-03 Gorno-Altaisk UNBG 3:15 AM
01-03 Biysk UNBI 3:30 AM
01-03 Lesnoy Airfield USAN 3:56 AM
01-03 Barnaul UNBB 4:05 AM
Flight time 6:40 15 stops
Cold early morning at Tatarsk, a little East from Omsk
On the way to Slavgorod, clouds appear on the horizon. They will be trouble later
Slavgorod Severniy Air Base in Altai Krai, Russia
Altai is a Russian republic in southern Siberia around the Altai Mountains
Reaching the clouds on the way to Pavlodar
The moon is getting smaller, still very visible
Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, along the Irtysh river. Note the ground temperature
At 3,000 ft it warms up to -18F
To Kurchatov, still some icing despite it being far below zero. Just on the windows though
Kurchatov, named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov
The town was once the center of operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Lake Chagan, created by nuclear tests. Hard to find, eerie place in the fog.
Semipalatinsk test site
Landing in Semey, until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk and in 1917–1920 as Alash-kala
I decide to get above the cloud cover on the way to Ust-Kamenogorsk
Only a few small glimpses of the ground below
Until it cleared up close to Ust-Kamenogorsk
Magical winter scenes ensued
Breathtaking to fly through
Ust-Kamenogorsk, warming up, a balmy -25F / -32c
Cold weather makes beautiful scenes
Near Targusun
Zubovsk, ‘warmer’ up higher, still in the clouds, more icing as a result
On to Ust-Koksa
Near Marolovodka
Ust’-Koksa where the Kosa river joins the Katun river
Elekmona in a nice little valley further down the Katun river. Ice on the river!
Tough climbing out of the valley with all this ice on my plane
Gorno-Altaisk, a break in the clouds over the airpot
Leaving the mountains behind on the way North to Biysk
Biysk on the Biya river, not far from the confluence with the Katun river to then become the Ob river
Final stop today, Barnaul, Russia, along a partly frozen Ob river
Great job on the winter scenes Asobo, looks really good
