The common description of “air gateway” really adequately reflects the essence of an airport as your first exposure to the city and your first impression from it. This is why it is so important for the architects designing an airport to find its identity that would reveal to the travelers the genotype of the place, its individuality, and the most interesting features.

ASADOV Architects have accumulated tremendous experience in projects of this typology, having already designed fifteen airport terminals across the country, some of them – in Kemerovo, Saratov, and Perm – being completed and quite popular.

The initial phase of the design process is creating a “mood board” or “inspiration board”, which becomes the basis for searching for the genotype of the place. For Blagoveshchensk, and, more generally, Amursky Territory, the set of characteristic features turned out to be quite diverse – equally important were the historical past of the city, the natural specifics of the region, and the vector of its modern development.

Only in the Amur Territory a special kind of Far Eastern lotus grows – one of the most beautiful aquatic plants on the planet, and only on the Amur River you can see the so-called “burning” mountains – water washes away the loose soil at the base of the ridge, exposing brown coal, which ignites spontaneously when in contact with air, burning with a smoky flame, and constantly yielding smoke. And, finally, it the Blagoveshchensk airport that welcomes those whose end destination is the Vostochny spaceport – the proximity of the spaceport gives Blagoveshchensk a special flavor and special status, therefore the space theme turned out to be especially important and attractive for the authors of the project.