 Opened in 1945, it is the seventeenth-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in Kazakhstan, with 21,427 passengers in calendar year 2018.The airport is located north-east from the centre of Kokshetau, the capital of Akmola Region in the northern part of Kazakhstan.The airport began its new operational phase on 21 October 2013, with new building and runway structure, replacing old structure on the same site.The airport features one fully reconstructed passenger terminal and one runway, which handles both domestic and international operations.