The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Air Transport and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “State ATM Corporation” put into operation the Ekaterinburg integrated center of the Unified Air Traffic Management System.
The volume of investments in the project amounted to 1,520,417,560.00 rubles. This is the own funds of the FSUE "State ATM Corporation". No budget funds were raised. From the new integrated center, the Air Traffic Control Urals branch of the ATM Group will provide air navigation services over the territories of the Udmurt Republic, Perm Territory, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Kirov Regions.
The total area of the airspace controlled by the Ekaterinburg integrated center is 686.6 thousand square meters. km The length of the zone of responsibility of the Ural Air Navigation Branch from north to south to the state border of the Russian Federation with the Republic of Kazakhstan is 1,116 km, and from east to west is 1,494 km. Within the area of responsibility there are 86 air traffic service routes with a total length of 36,563 km, of which: 20,600 km are air routes open for international flights, 11,903 km are area navigation routes open for international flights, 4,060 km are domestic air routes. trails. Over the past three years, in the branch’s area of responsibility, there has been a tendency to increase the intensity of air traffic. The total number of aircraft serviced in 2017 was 895,785, of which international - 311,039, domestic - 584,746, which compared with 2016 increased by 7.9%.
The ATM automated system produced by NITA LLC was supplied under agreements with Concern VKO Almaz-Antey. The system is located in the new technological building of the original layout, located near the airport Ekaterinburg (Koltsovo). The system is based on the updated KSA versions of the Alpha-5 ATC and the KSA Planet-5 KIA, which corresponds to the highest level of automation according to the international classification. In the technological building of the Ekaterinburg integrated center there are 10 sectors of the EU Regional ATM Center Yekaterinburg, the control tower of the Yekaterinburg (Koltsovo) aerodrome approach, the UATMS Zonal Center.
The architectural construction of the technological building of the Ekaterinburg integrated center is multilevel, consists of one-storey and three-storey parts. The three-storey part of the building is in terms of a segment of a ring (236 degrees), 18 meters high, standing on supports. The technological building was built in close proximity to the buildings of the FKU “Ural Aviation Search and Rescue Center” with a coordinating center for search and rescue, thus forming a closed ring. The planned number of employees in the Yekaterinburg Integrated Center: air traffic service personnel - 195 people, airspace planning personnel - 56 people, ERTOS engineering and technical personnel - 28 people. The new ATM system will increase airspace capacity, reduce operating costs, centralise air traffic control functions, and improve the safety and efficiency of air traffic management in the Yekaterinburg integrated center of the Urals Air Navigation branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise for ATM.
