Moscow airports: which ones there are and how many there are, what they will all be called in Russia, renaming Domodedovo after Lomonosov and other new names from 2021

There are several airports in the capital of Russia, Moscow. The list of Moscow airports is not limited to its three main large ones - Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo. It also includes not so famous ones - “Zhukovsky” and “Bykovo”, “Chkalovsky” and “Ostafyevo”, “Myachkovo”. We will talk about how many airports there are in Moscow and their names in this article.

Such a large number of small and large airfields is explained by the growing demands of the capital. The city is growing, and so is its population. Therefore, the need for more different airports is only increasing. As a tourist city, Moscow receives a large number of foreigners who also prefer to travel by plane.

Main airports of the capital

What airports are there in Moscow? Probably the most correct answer to such a question would be – everything. Civil, military, international and others. Moscow is one of the largest metropolises on the planet, and besides this, it is also the capital of a huge country. Accordingly, this city is practically surrounded by airstrips for various purposes.

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Of course, practically nothing is known about military and strategic airports, and the stories that appear periodically in the media are more reminiscent of rumors than reliable facts. But civil airports, where transport and cargo airliners land and take off into the skies, are a completely different matter.

The most famous air gates of the capital are considered to be:

Sheremetyevo.
Vnukovo.
Domodedovo.
Bykovo.
Ramenskoye is the airport of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the city of Zhukovsky.
Chkalovsky.
Ostafyevo.
Myachkovo.

Every day many people, various cargoes pass through these airports, thousands of planes land and take off.

List of 4 main ones: their names, features and designations, addresses

Among all the city airports that currently exist in the capital, the main ones in the ranking are:

Vnukovo;
Domodedovo;
Sheremetyevo;
Zhukovsky.

These airports have IATA and ICAO codes, which are assigned only to federal facilities.

You can find out which of these airports is the largest and which is the smallest from our article.

Vnukovo

Vnukovo Airport (IATA: VKO, ICAO: UUWW) is the third most popular airport in Moscow. The complex serves approximately 14 million passengers annually. In 2021, passenger traffic at Vnukovo amounted to 21.5 million people. Since 2005, Aeroexpress trains from Kievsky Station have been arriving at the airport station, which is the first underground railway platform in Moscow. Vnukovo is located at 1st Reisovaya Street, 11 kilometers from the ring road.

The airport got its name from the small village of Vnukovo , which already existed in the sixteenth century. Legend has it that the village got its name from one of its first owners, nicknamed Grandson. In the twentieth century, Vnukovo became a major aviation center, and in 1938 construction began on the airport, which was opened three years later.

After the end of the war, it was to Vnukovo that the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany and the Victory Banner were delivered. A plane from Baikonur landed here, with Yuri Gagarin on board.

Vnukovo will become the first capital airport that can be reached by metro: it is planned to extend the yellow metro line here, which will shorten the trip by about twenty minutes.

You can get to Vnukovo by bus, minibus, Aeroexpress, taxi or private car.

On average, a trip by Aeroexpress from Kievsky Station will take no more than an hour and will cost 500 rubles.
A bus from the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station will be cheaper: 110 rubles and a little over an hour’s journey.
The minibus will take you to your destination in an hour and 210 rubles.

We invite you to watch a useful video with an overview of Vnukovo Airport:

Domodedovo

Domodedovo International Airport (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD) is located twenty-two kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. It is one of the twenty most famous airports in Europe. The airport was built in 1962. In 2015, passenger traffic at Domodedovo exceeded 22 million people. Domestic and international flights from Domodedovo are operated to 241 destinations. The airport is located at Moscow region, Domodedovo district.

The airport complex, in addition to the building itself, includes:

two runways;
car parking;
hotel.

The airport can be reached at any time of the day or night: by rail, taxi, bus, private car or Aeroexpress.

Sheremetyevo

Sheremetyevo International Airport (IATA: SVO, ICAO: UUEE) is the first capital airport in terms of passenger traffic, and is also one of the ten largest airports in Europe. Flights are served by five passenger terminals, one of which houses the Airport History Museum. In addition to various cafes and shops, there are bank branches, a post office, and several hotels on the airport territory.

The airport is located between the cities of Khimki and Lobnya, at the address Moscow region, the city of Khimki. The Sheremetyevo landing building has a special twist: it is made in an unusual shape, which has received the nickname “glass”.

Getting to the airport is easy. All terminals have taxi service desks on the ground floor . The price for the trip starts from 1200 rubles.

The easiest way to get to Sheremetyevo is by Aeroexpress, which departs from the Belorussky railway station.
This method will cost 420 rubles. Attention ! An Aeroexpress ticket at the box office is 80 rubles more expensive!
Bus No. 851 departs from the River Station, a ticket will cost 50 rubles, the trip will take from 30 to 60 minutes, depending on traffic jams.
You can also get there by minibus from the Planernaya metro station for 75 rubles.

An overview of Sheremetyevo Airport and information on how to get there can be found in this video:

Zhukovsky

The fourth airport on the list is Zhukovsky Airport (IATA: ZIA, ICAO: UUBW) - an international airport located at the Ramenskoye airfield, in the territory of the city of Zhukovsky. The airfield has a 5.4-kilometer runway, the second longest in the world. The airport is located thirty kilometers from the ring road, at the address: Zhukovsky city, Narkomvod street, 3.

You can get to Zhukovsky by bus, train, taxi:

Regular bus No. 441E runs from the Kotelniki metro station; a ticket to the airport costs 82 rubles.
An electric train runs from the Kazansky railway station to the Otdykh station.
There are special shuttle buses from the station that cost 100 rubles; the total duration of the trip will be a little over an hour.
The trip by private car will take about an hour.

The city of Zhukovsky is located in the southeast; it should not be confused with the village of Zhukovo, located in the northwest.

You will learn about the features of Zhukovsky Airport from this useful video:

Sheremetyevo

Like all international airports, Sheremetyevo is a large and modern station complex. This airport is one of the most popular and largest not only in Russia, but also in the world as a whole.

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In addition to the fact that the airport terminal is the most popular, it is also located closest to the city center in comparison with others. It is located in the north-west direction, less than 30 km from the central streets of the capital. There are two Moscow districts very close to the airport:

Khimki;
Lobnya.

Of course, Sheremetyevo is one of the main bases for aircraft. Several foreign carriers are also based here.

The complex consists of 6 terminals:

“A” - “business flights” are concentrated here, for example, private planes with businessmen on board, airliners with political delegations, and other similar flights arrive here.
“B” - the terminal is not functioning, moreover, it actually does not exist, since the building built during the Soviet years was demolished, and a new one has just begun to be erected.
"C" - is currently partially closed, and is used only when there is excessive load in other terminals, the reason for the closure is the reconstruction of part of the building to connect with the future new terminal "B".
“D” is currently the busiest terminal, where landings and takeoffs of airliners operating both domestic and international flights are concentrated.
“E” is a part of the complex that has a special status; it exclusively serves flights of ships and liners of companies belonging to the SkyTeam alliance.
“F” – flights are currently served here.

The buildings of terminals “D”, “E”, “F” are combined into a complex called Yuzhny. The Aeroexpress train arrives here, and there are transport stops and parking lots.

New titles in 2021

In 2021, the national competition “Great Names of Russia” ended, which resulted in a list of more than 400 names that are planned to be assigned to Russian airports. More than 40 airports will now be named after prominent people of Russia. Below we describe which airports in Russia will be renamed and what specific names they will have.

For Sheremetyevo - named after Alexander Pushkin

The following names were proposed for Sheremetyevo Airport:

Dmitry Mendeleev;
mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov;
writers Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky;
Saint Sergei of Radonezh;
composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
commander Konstantin Rokossovsky.

By universal vote, it was decided to name Sheremetyevo Airport after the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

For Domodedovo - named after Mikhail Lomonosov

Among the names proposed for Domodedovo Airport to be renamed:

writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov;
commanders Georgy Zhukov and Mikhail Kutuzov;
scientists Lev Landau and Mikhail Lomonosov.

Based on the voting results, it was decided to name the airport after the great scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.

Other shifts

More than 124 thousand people from all over Russia took part in the open voting. The President of the Russian Federation issued a decree assigning new names to more than 40 airports. The following is a list of how airports in Russia were renamed:

Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport was renamed in honor of Akinfiy Demidov;
Tyumen Roshchino will be named after Dmitry Mendeleev;
Balandino Airport in Chelyabinsk was named after Igor Kurchatov;
Nizhnevartovsk Airport is named after Viktor Muravlenko, the organizer of the USSR oil industry.

The new names were chosen by popular vote. The “Great Names of Russia” competition was held in the fall of 2021. The online voting format allowed us to avoid significant budget costs.

There are many airports in Moscow and the Moscow region that allow you to travel to anywhere in the world. Knowing their features and location, everyone can choose the most convenient option that meets personal requirements.

Domodedovo

The capital's second most popular airport. It takes longer to get to it from the central regions than to Sheremetyevo. The airport is located 45 km from the center of the capital, in a southeast direction.

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Domodedovo is designed in some way unique. This terminal has parallel remote runways allowing multiple flights to take off and land at the same time.

It also has its own registration system, which is usually not immediately clear to people who find themselves within the walls of this airport terminal for the first time. She goes “through the islands”. This means that the airport terminal building has individual seats divided into sections. They are called “islands”.

There are 4 large “islands” each with 22 sections, there are 3 smaller “islands” with 20 sectional aisles and separate sections for luggage.

There is only one terminal, but the size of the building is sufficient, since everything inside is placed ergonomically and conveniently.

Vnukovo

This airport terminal is old and large. Construction began before the Great Patriotic War, in 1937. At the time the location seemed remote, but these days the town has grown. To get to the halls of Vnukovo, you will need to travel 10 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, from the southwest.

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Many airlines are based here, including those that serve large corporations, such as Gazprom Avia. Of course, Vnukovo is the international air gateway of the capital, serving flights from all over the world.

The airport consists of three complexes. The first contains terminals:

“A” – terminal receiving passenger flights;
“B” – is under reconstruction, closed in 2021, but aircraft can land on the runways in emergencies;
“D” – accepts domestic flights from remote parts of the country.

Vnukovo-2 has state status. Government flights are serviced at this terminal, for example, the head of state flies from here.

The third complex serves:

Business flights.
Charters.
Flights of officials.

For example, deputies, the capital’s leadership and many others fly from here. Roscosmos is also based here.

Big ring line BKL or third transfer circuit TPK

For the convenience of passengers, construction has begun on the Big Circle Line, which will significantly reduce travel time on the metro. Once it is fully built, passengers will not need to go to the center to transfer to the neighboring metro line. The BCL will relieve congestion on existing metro lines and help get from one area to another much faster.

BKL is the same line that was previously called the Third Transfer Circuit. When the Great Circle Line is fully completed, it will be approximately 67 km long. The metro line will have 31 stations and 21 interchanges to other subway and MCC stations.

On metro maps, the BKL is indicated by a turquoise color and the number “11”. The number “11A” on the diagram is the Kakhovskaya line, which will later become part of the BKL.

Note! At the moment Art. “Business Center” of the Solntsevskaya Line is temporarily closed due to ongoing work

First section of the Big Circle Line

On February 26, 2021, the first section of the BCL was opened from Petrovsky Park to the Business Center.

The section consists of the following stations:

“Business Center” (transfer to the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line, as well as the “Vystavochnaya” Filevskaya line).
“Shelepikha” (transfer to the Shelepikha MCC platform).
"Khoroshevskaya" (transfer to "Polezhaevskaya" Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line and MCC Khoroshevo station).
"CSKA" "Petrovsky Park" (transfer to "Dynamo" Zamoskvoretskaya line).

Plans for the construction of the Big Circle Line

2019 – commissioning of the section from Petrovsky Park station to Nizhnyaya Maslovka
2020-2021 – trains will travel from Aviamotornaya to Rubtsovskaya and from Khoroshevskaya to Mnevniki
2022 – trains will run from Rubtsovskaya to Nizhnyaya Maslovka, from Mnevniki to Nizhegorodskaya. The ring will close completely.

Ramenskoye

This airport is a base for planes and helicopters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, in the region, near the city of Zhukovsky. This is 36 kilometers from the Moscow city limits. Aircraft tests are also carried out here.

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However, the airport terminal is not closed at all - it operates as normal and accepts passenger flights. There is only one terminal, but the passenger flow is relatively small. This airport has a unique length of 5.4 km. This is one of the longest strips in the world. Thanks to this feature, Ramenskoye can accommodate absolutely any aircraft, regardless of its size and weight.

Zhukovsky

Taxi to Moscow airports

This is the newest of Moscow airports; it officially came into operation in May last year. It is located in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region. You can get to the airport by trains and express buses, as well as by taxi.

Zhukovsky Airport

The capacity of the airport's only terminal today is 4 million people. Zhukovsky airfield has 2 runways, one of which is the longest in Europe and the third in the world.

The airport code in the IATA system is ZIA, in the ICAO system it is UUBW. The official website of the company is https://zia.aero. The airport serves flights of the following airlines:

Belavia;
"Ural Airlines";
"Onur Air";
"Sanexpress";
"Pegasus Fly".

Passengers have access to food, luggage storage and medical assistance in the terminal building. Several rooms are open to serve passengers with small children. There are also VIP lounges for business class passengers.

Over the next few years, it is planned to build a new passenger terminal, a station for Aeroexpress trains, a parking lot and a hotel in Zhukovsky.

Bykovo

Another air terminal located in the region, near the city of Zhukovsky. The airfield does not operate as a civil airport. It was closed eight years ago, in 2010.

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Until 2010, domestic flights from regions close to Moscow landed here, for example, planes flew here from Yaroslavl Tunoshna. Helicopters were also serviced here. The closure of the air terminal was not due to the fact that the airfield was technically outdated, but due to a lack of demand.

The helicopters of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs and the customs service are based here. The airport terminal building has long been dismantled, and most of the hangars house customs warehouses.

Transport infrastructure

The western wing of the airport is equipped with a covered access platform where trains deliver passengers. This railway is located in the Paveletsky direction. In addition, the airport terminal is connected to the capital by a federal highway. Due to the construction of an interchange near the Cosmos platform, as well as due to periodic traffic jams, the travel time to the airport significantly depends on the time of day.

During peak hours, it is better to get to Domodedovo Airport by train or the following types of ground public transport:

Route taxi No. 308. The maximum travel time is 20 minutes, and the interval between them is 10 minutes.
Bus number 308. The interval and travel time are the same as for a minibus.
Bus number 26. The interval of movement of this public mode of transport can be up to one and a half hours. It all depends on the time of day.
Bus number 30. Travel time is up to one hour. Interval – 5 minutes.

Parking at Domodedovo Airport

Ostafyevo

This is an airport with history, not a particularly simple place. The air terminal is located near the relatively recently grown residential area of Yuzhnoye Butovo. The airfield was built in 1934 for the needs of the NKVD. Of course, what is connected with the functioning of Ostafyevo before the start of the war is unknown.

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During the war years, the airport was of great importance. Important cargo and more passed through it. For example, scientists and government members were evacuated from these strips. After 1945, Ostafyevo was handed over to the military.

During the years of perestroika, the airport was abandoned, but it was soon reconstructed and opened. Restoration and technical equipment were carried out using funds. This happened in 2000. It is not surprising that Ostafyevo became the “home” airport for the gas concern’s subsidiary, Gazprom Avia. Of course, the airport has international status.

There is only one terminal, but it is very modern. The declared capacity is 70 people per hour on domestic flights and 40 on international flights. This, of course, is several times less than in the Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo or Domodedovo terminals, but in comparison with many airports in Europe it is quite a lot.

Special business aviation flights are served in Ostafyevo.

Chkalovsky

This is a military airport and does not accept civilian flights except those requiring an emergency landing. Local technical capabilities are limited; Chkalovsky is focused not on airplanes, but on helicopters. But there are runways here and they are used if necessary.

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The airport is located in the region, near the city of Shchelkovo. It is 31 km away from Moscow and there is no direct highway to the MKAD from Chkalovsky.

At the end of the last century, when the army was in decline, crisis, and property was being sold under the hammer, the airport was going to be privatized and turned into a civilian one, accepting private flights. A project was even discussed to cut down a significant area of forest in order to lay a direct route to the Moscow Ring Road. Fortunately for the local ecology, this was not destined to come true.

Today Chkalovsky is the base of the Special Purpose Aviation Division.

Video: hospitable Moscow airports.

Moscow aviation hub

UIA (MOW in the interpretation of the International Air Transport Association) is the infrastructure of airports in Moscow and the region. List of Moscow airports that are the main ones for UIA:

Domodedovo;
Vnukovo;
Sheremetyevo;
Zhukovsky.

Auxiliary - Ostafyevo and Chkalovsky. All airports are international (with the exception of Chkalovsky, since it is recognized as international, but does not yet operate such flights).

Myachkovo

A small and cozy rural airport, reminiscent of European provincial mini-air terminals. It was built near the city limits, 16 km from the Moscow Ring Road. Nearby is the village of Verkhneye Myachkovo, which gave the name to the airport.

Myachkovo operated as a civilian air terminal until the beginning of 2009. In the same year, it was officially reorganized into a sports airfield. People who have their own light aircraft come here.

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In addition to private aviation, the airfield has helipads and periodically receives small charter or special departmental flights.

There are two flying clubs and a flight school operating simultaneously in Myachkovo. Of course, they undergo a medical examination before taking off. There are also hangars where private planes are parked.

It is impossible to answer the question of how many airports there are in Moscow without taking into account strategic and closed facilities. But, of course, there is no information about them. Therefore, it is generally accepted that there are 8 operating airfields in the capital.

Metro stations close to major tourist attractions

St. Petersburg metro map

What is the first thing to see when in Moscow? The capital is famous for its huge number of attractions, mostly concentrated in the city center.

Red Square and the Kremlin are leaders in the ranking of must-see places in Moscow. Located near Okhotny Ryad/Teatralnaya/Revolution Square. Here you can also see the famous: St. Basil's Cathedral, Place of Execution, Mausoleum and GUM.

The Bolshoi Theater is located near the Teatralnaya station.

Vorobyovy Gory is an amazingly beautiful place - the Vorobyovy Gory station, which is not located in the subway, but above the ground, right above the main river of the capital. Undoubtedly, you need to take a walk through this wonderful natural area and along the embankment of the Moscow River to Gorky Park.

Tretyakov Gallery - metro stations "Tretyakovskaya" and "Polyanka". The wide variety of paintings presented in the gallery has been attracting crowds of tourists from all over the world for decades.

Views of Moscow

VDNKh - located at the VDNKh station of the same name, here it is worth seeing a huge iron rocket - a symbol of progress, the most beautiful “Friendship of Peoples” fountain.

The Moscow Zoo is the oldest zoo in Russia, which began its work back in the 18th century. Located near the Barrikadnaya/Krasnopresnenskaya/Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro stations.

Moscow is a wonderful city for both tourism and work trips. It is quite difficult to understand the metro map, since the huge number of subway lines and new stations under construction can sometimes confuse the residents of the capital themselves, let alone visitors. The article's advice, as well as a map of Moscow with various airports, train stations and a metro map, will help you not to get lost in it.

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