OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 April 2009 was announced, that an open house took place at Pulkovo airport. Pupils from school 525 (Moscow district) visited airport staff; employees organized a tour for children.

The program consisted of both airdrome visit and Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 terminals seeing. Pupils checked technical base of the FSUE ”Rossiya” – the main partner of Pulkovo airport. Children were told about maintenance and exploitation of aircrafts and perspectives of development of aviation in general. During the tour guests got to know about dispatcher job on the tower and in the centre of air traffic management, visited ramp #1 where they could observe the preparation of the aircraft for the flight.

On the airdrome guests were shown the renewed park of cleaning machinery: brushing-blowoff self-propelled vehicles, snow-ploughs and special machinery for handling of asphalt carpet with wet and dry reagents.

Acquaintance of pupils with active airport units was accompanied by journey to history pages of Pulkovo airport from the moment of its foundation – June 4-th, 1932. Children were shown archival photographs, told about the airdrome’s fortune during the war years. During the conversation they touched on a business of the future reconstruction of the airport that will radically change nowaday image of “air gates” of Saint-Petersburg.