Originally Posted by
christep
For non-cyrillic readers, thats Sakhalin. Curiously, the
Airport Code lookup on this site doesn't include UUS (where do I report that bug?), but it is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport.
Wiki suggests that Seoul and Sapporo are the only places outside Russia with scheduled service, but I've no idea how current that is. Personally I would go via Seoul even from London so that I could use Asiana and avoid Russian airlines.
hello chris - many thanks for replying. yeah, sorry, i couldn't resist spelling sakhalin in cyrillic, also was curious to see if it worked; i presumed that the people in the know would recognise the exotic airport code.

going via asiana would be nice but i'm afraid the cost might be prohibitive. for some reason the search engines don't show it so i might have to force it by going on their own website.
al