Airports in Russia
148 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
Russia has 148 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 43 of them large. The busiest are Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO, 43.1 million passengers, Wikidata, 2025), Pulkovo Airport (LED, 20.7 million passengers, Wikidata, 2025) and Vnukovo International Airport (VKO, 16.4 million passengers, Wikidata, 2025). Moscow and Ulyanovsk have more than one airport; a city code (MOW for Moscow) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| AYT – VKO | 2,134 km | 1,547,990 |
| AYT – SVO | 2,178 km | 1,373,168 |
| IST – VKO | 1,709 km | 1,235,902 |
| AYT – LED | 2,547 km | 757,738 |
| IST – SVO | 1,752 km | 681,561 |
| AYT – SVX | 3,132 km | 583,475 |
| AYT – KZN | 2,503 km | 461,742 |
| AYT – DME | 2,127 km | 443,220 |
| IST – LED | 2,063 km | 391,658 |
| AER – IST | 955 km | 386,681 |
| AYT – UFA | 2,739 km | 309,629 |
| AER – AYT | 1,065 km | 308,641 |
| DME – IST | 1,709 km | 285,437 |
| AYT – OVB | 4,364 km | 272,425 |
| BEG – SVO | 1,727 km | 266,464 |
| SAW – VKO | 1,735 km | 256,606 |
| DLM – VKO | 2,194 km | 227,668 |
| AYT – KUF | 2,376 km | 227,020 |
| IST – MRV | 1,218 km | 163,489 |
| AYT – MRV | 1,318 km | 160,615 |
Questions
Russia has 148 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 43 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO), Pulkovo Airport (LED), Vnukovo International Airport (VKO), Domodedovo International Airport (DME), Sochi International Airport (AER) and Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (OVB), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO), with 43.1 million passengers (Wikidata, 2025).
Moscow (MOW: SVO, DME, VKO, ZIA) and Ulyanovsk (ULY, ULV).