Just in time for the October elections, work starts today on the 7-year-old project to build a $200 million new airport for Dnipro.

Just in time for the October elections, work starts today on the 7-year-old project to build a $200 million new airport for Dnipro. Yesterday, an agreement was signed to start clearing existing airport equipment and to start a $430,000 design project. Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krikliy says a tender will be held shortly to build a new 3,200-meter runway, 13% longer than the existing one. This fall, Alexander Yaroslavsky says his DCH Group will start building a new terminal capable of handling 1,000 passengers an hour. Based in Kharkiv, Yaroslavsky built the highly acclaimed $107 million airport terminal for Kharkiv.