Under the Russian Government's Resolution No. 1197-57 dated October 28, 1994 and Russian Ministry of Defence Order No. 027 dated March 3, 1995, the jointly operated Vladivostok Knevichi Airport handles civilian flights, those of the Pacific Fleet's naval aviation and the aviation of the Federal Security Service's Border Service.
Vladivostok Airport is to be reconstructed under the federal target programme Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Far East and the Trans-Baikal Area and its sub-programme The Development of the City of Vladivostok as a Centre of International Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region.
The Federal Air Transport Agency of the Russian Transport Ministry is the state client ordering the facility. Total reconstruction allocations are stipulated at 14,285,000,000 roubles. The reconstruction project involves 73 units of specialised equipment and nearly 450 workers.
The two-stage airport reconstruction project aims to extend runway 1 to 3,500 metres and to reconstruct its tarmac; to extend and reconstruct the taxiway; to reconstruct and build access routes; to reconstruct platform lights; to build a basic emergency and rescue station; to reconstruct the water effluent and drainage network; to build purification facilities and to build an asphalt and concrete patrol road during the first stage.
There are plans to reconstruct runway 2, to reconstruct and build power supply facilities, to install light and signal equipment, to modernise weather support systems, to install the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS), which augments the Standard Positioning Service (SPS) of the GLONASS/GPS navigation satellite systems.