Boryspil Airport is an international airport located near the city of Boryspil, 29km east of Kiev. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the major part of international flights of the country. It is one of Eastern Europe's largest airports with over six million passengers travelling in 2008. The airport handles around 60% of all commercial air traffic in Ukraine.
The airport has tree terminals:
Terminal A is used for domestic flights.
Terminal B is used for international flights.
Terminal C is used for VIP passengers.
Next terminals D,E,F are planned or still under construction.
If you wish visit airport virtual tour look at link.
Historical data
1959-06-22 - The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered
establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil.
1959-07-07 - The new airport (named Kiev-Tsentralnyi) received its first scheduled flight. It was Aeroflot's Tupolev Tu-104 en route from Moscow, carrying 100 passengers and about 1,600kg of cargo aboard. The first routes served were Moscow–Kiev–Moscow and Leningrad–Kiev–Leningrad.
1960-11-01- The first permanent air group consisting of Tu-104 and Antonov An-10 planes was assigned to the airport. Until then the airport has been served only by aircraft based in Moscow and other cities of the Soviet Union.
1963 - The Ukrainian Territorial Administration of Civil Aviation formed its Boryspil subdivision comprising of the airport and its air group. The air group grew significantly in 1960-1970s. As of 1974 it was consisting of four fleets of turbofan aircraft (Tu-104, Tu-134, Tu-154 planes) and two fleets of turboprop aircraft (Ilyushin Il-18 planes).
1980 - Boryspil airport began receiving limited international flights. The additional passenger services and customs/border control groups were established
for that purpose. However, ordinary Soviet citizens were not allowed to depart abroad from Kiev, instead restricted to fly only from Moscow airports.
1993 - The Ministry of Transportation of the newly-independent Ukraine reorganized airport into the Boryspil State International Airport and created a local subdivision of Air Ukraine to serve it. The airport was opened for any passengers and flights. The number of air and passenger traffic has been growing since then.
In early 2000s Boryspil became a hub airport serving not only destined but also transit flights of the foreign airlines. The strategy of the airport's development is stressing the hub role since domestic passenger demand is growing insufficiently compared to the possible transit traffic.
Cache is situated in public park near the airport.
There are major renovations underway in the airport area. New terminal has been built for Euro 2012. Unfortunately, as I discovered during my recent inspection in November and last week, the cache was stolen. So I brought a new smaller box yesterday and made better stealthy design. Look at the spoilers.