Izgrev Airport

Primarily economic reasons following major political and structural changes in Bulgaria. The airport's main purpose was to serve the agricultural sector. After the fall of the socialist regime in 1989, the large state-owned cooperative farms (TKZS) were dismantled and the land was privatized and fragmented. This eliminated the need for large-scale, state-managed aerial crop-dusting and fertilizing, rendering the airport's function obsolete. The state-run agricultural aviation company that operated from these airfields ceased to exist in its original form, leading to the abandonment of the infrastructure.

The airport is abandoned and in a state of disrepair. The single asphalt runway and associated taxiways are still visible on satellite imagery but are heavily cracked, weathered, and overgrown with vegetation. The site is not maintained and is inaccessible for any official aviation purposes. It is reportedly used unofficially and illegally for activities such as car drifting, drag racing, and drone flying by local enthusiasts. The land remains undeveloped.

Izgrev Airport was a key component of Bulgaria's extensive agricultural aviation network during the socialist era (pre-1989). Its primary role was to support the intensive agriculture in the fertile region around Varna and Dobrich. Operations consisted almost exclusively of agricultural flights, including crop dusting, pest control, and fertilization. The airport would have typically handled robust, short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) aircraft designed for such work, most notably the Antonov An-2, and possibly Polish-made aircraft like the PZL-101 Gawron or PZL-M18 Dromader. It was a functional, utilitarian airfield vital to the region's planned economy and agricultural output at the time.

There are no known official plans or credible prospects for reopening Izgrev Airport for commercial or general aviation. The runway is too short and the infrastructure too degraded to meet modern standards without a massive investment. Furthermore, the close proximity of Varna Airport (VAR), a major international airport just 15-20 km to the southeast, serves all regional air traffic needs, making a second airport in Kalimantsi economically unviable.