 Also in 1963/4, Aeroflot was operating 761 service on a round trip routing of Karaganda – Tselinograd (now Nur-Sultan) – Kokchetav (now Kokshetau) – Kustanai (now Kostanay) – Chelyabinsk – Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) with Lisunov Li-2 aircraft.Aeroflot served the airport during the mid 1964s with Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft flying a routing of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) – Kurgan – Petropavlovsk (now Petropavl) – Kokchetav (now Kokshetau) – Tselinograd (now Nur-Sultan) – Karaganda – Alma-Ata (now Almaty).In 1961, Aeroflot had service to Moscow via stops at Petropavlovsk (now Petropavl), Kurgan, Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Kazan flying a Ilyushin Il-14 (with total flight time of about 15 hrs.