The airport, twelve kilometers from the capital of Karelia, which previously had the full name Petrozvodsk (Besovets), began to be called simply Petrozavodsk, so as not to cause unnecessary associations with evil spirits. This was announced by the National Geographic Russia magazine. However, the air harbor received its former name not because of otherworldly entities, but by the name of the settlement located next to this place - and why it, in turn, was named so, today we can only guess: no information is more reliable than contradicting one another rural legends in this regard have not survived. The airport near the village of Besovets was built in 1939; for a very long time it has had international status, accepting aircraft, both state-owned and owned by commercial companies. The idea of its renaming belongs to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltsev, who, back in 2016, recalled the lines of a song from the popular Soviet cartoon 'The Adventures of Captain Vrungel': 'As you name a yacht, so it will float' - and proposed after the reconstruction to reduce the name of the airport to one the words 'Petrozavodsk'. It is difficult to say for sure whether the 'demonic' name influenced the work of the federal air harbor or not. Anyway, a few tragedies took place here. In particular, on June 21, 2011, the RusAir Tu-134, which was carrying passengers from Moscow to the capital of Karelia, crashed - then forty-five people died and seven more were seriously injured. A little over a year after these events, on June 28, 2012, near the airport, a Su-27 UB meteorological board crashed - fortunately, both pilots were able to eject in time. Finally, the day before yesterday, the official website of Rosreestr posted an official announcement about the renaming of the airport - only the first, more euphonious part of it has survived from the previous name. It is interesting to remember that last year the citizens of the Republic of Karelia took part in the Internet voting concerning the choice of the name for the main air harbor of the region - while the majority of votes (36.88%) were given to preserve the variant of the name Petrozavodsk (Besovets).
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