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Russia: airports in numbers
In the open OurAirports register, Russia shows 44 large airports, 211 medium ones and 684 small fields. Opening the table is Abakan International Airport (ABA), followed by Akhmat Kadyrov Grozny International Airport (GRV): 3,483.9 km in a straight line between the two, the second one west of the first. The "main airport" label in Russia is a declared proxy, since the source measures no traffic: large before medium, scheduled service before the rest.
The airports, one by one
| # | Airport | IATA | ICAO | City | Size | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abakan International Airport | ABA | UNAA | Abakan | large | 253 m (831 ft) |
| 2 | Akhmat Kadyrov Grozny International Airport | GRV | URMG | Grozny | large | 167 m (548 ft) |
| 3 | Alexei Leonov Kemerovo International Airport | KEJ | UNEE | Kemerovo | large | 263 m (863 ft) |
| 4 | Alykel International Airport | NSK | UOOO | Norilsk | large | 175 m (574 ft) |
| 5 | Astrakhan Narimanovo Boris M. Kustodiev International Airport | ASF | URWA | Astrakhan | large | -20 m (-65 ft) |
| 6 | Baikal International Airport | UUD | UIUU | Ulan Ude | large | 515 m (1,690 ft) |
| 7 | Barnaul Gherman Titov International Airport | BAX | UNBB | Barnaul | large | 255 m (837 ft) |
| 8 | Chita-Kadala International Airport | HTA | UIAA | Chita | large | 693 m (2,272 ft) |
| 9 | Domodedovo International Airport | DME | UUDD | Moscow | large | 179 m (588 ft) |
| 10 | Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk Airport | MMK | ULMM | Murmansk | large | 81 m (266 ft) |
| 11 | Gagarin International Airport | GSV | UWSG | Saratov | large | 31 m (103 ft) |
| 12 | Golden Ring Yaroslavl International Airport | IAR | UUDL | Tunoshna | large | 87 m (287 ft) |
| 13 | Irkutsk International Airport | IKT | UIII | Irkutsk | large | 511 m (1,675 ft) |
| 14 | Kazan International Airport | KZN | UWKD | Kazan | large | 125 m (411 ft) |
| 15 | Khrabrovo Airport | KGD | UMKK | Kaliningrad | large | 13 m (42 ft) |
| 16 | Koltsovo Airport | SVX | USSS | Yekaterinburg | large | 233 m (764 ft) |
| 17 | Krasnodar Pashkovsky International Airport | KRR | URKK | Krasnodar | large | 36 m (118 ft) |
| 18 | Krasnoyarsk International Airport | KJA | UNKL | Krasnoyarsk | large | 287 m (942 ft) |
| 19 | Kurchatov Chelyabinsk International Airport | CEK | USCC | Chelyabinsk | large | 234 m (769 ft) |
| 20 | Kurumoch International Airport | KUF | UWWW | Samara | large | 145 m (477 ft) |
| 21 | Magnitogorsk International Airport | MQF | USCM | Magnitogorsk | large | 436 m (1,430 ft) |
| 22 | Makhachkala Uytash International Airport | MCX | URML | Makhachkala | large | 4 m (12 ft) |
| 23 | Mineralnye Vody Airport | MRV | URMM | Mineralnyye Vody | large | 321 m (1,054 ft) |
| 24 | Nizhnevartovsk Airport | NJC | USNN | Nizhnevartovsk | large | 54 m (177 ft) |
| 25 | Nizhny Novgorod / Strigino International Airport | GOJ | UWGG | Nizhny Novgorod | large | 78 m (256 ft) |
| 26 | Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport | OVB | UNNT | Novosibirsk | large | 111 m (365 ft) |
| 27 | Omsk Central Airport | OMS | UNOO | Omsk | large | 95 m (311 ft) |
| 28 | Perm International Airport | PEE | USPP | Perm | large | 123 m (404 ft) |
| 29 | Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport | YKS | UEEE | Yakutsk | large | 99 m (325 ft) |
| 30 | Platov International Airport | ROV | URRP | Rostov-on-Don | large | 65 m (213 ft) |
| 31 | Pulkovo Airport | LED | ULLI | St. Petersburg | large | 24 m (78 ft) |
| 32 | Roshchino International Airport | TJM | USTR | Tyumen | large | 115 m (378 ft) |
| 33 | Saransk International Airport | SKX | UWPS | Saransk | large | 206 m (676 ft) |
| 34 | Sheremetyevo International Airport | SVO | UUEE | Moscow | large | 190 m (622 ft) |
| 35 | Sochi International Airport | AER | URSS | Sochi | large | 27 m (89 ft) |
| 36 | Surgut International Airport | SGC | USRR | Surgut | large | 61 m (200 ft) |
| 37 | Tomsk Kamov Airport | TOF | UNTT | Tomsk | large | 182 m (597 ft) |
| 38 | Ufa International Airport | UFA | UWUU | Ufa | large | 137 m (449 ft) |
| 39 | Vladivostok International Airport | VVO | UHWW | Artyom | large | 18 m (59 ft) |
| 40 | Vnukovo International Airport | VKO | UUWW | Moscow | large | 209 m (685 ft) |
| 41 | Volgograd International Airport | VOG | URWW | Volgograd | large | 147 m (482 ft) |
| 42 | Yelizovo Airport | PKC | UHPP | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | large | 40 m (131 ft) |
| 43 | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk International Airport | UUS | UHSS | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | large | 18 m (59 ft) |
| 44 | Zhukovsky International Airport | ZIA | UUBW | Moscow | large | 115 m (377 ft) |
| 45 | Amderma Airport | AMV | ULDD | Amderma | medium | 4 m (13 ft) |
| 46 | Anapa Vityazevo Airport | AAQ | URKA | Krasnyi Kurgan | medium | 53 m (174 ft) |
| 47 | Balakovo Airport | BWO | UWSB | Balakovo | medium | 29 m (95 ft) |
| 48 | Begishevo Airport | NBC | UWKE | Nizhnekamsk | medium | 196 m (643 ft) |
| 49 | Belgorod International Airport | EGO | UUOB | Belgorod | medium | 224 m (735 ft) |
| 50 | Beloyarskiy Airport | EYK | USHQ | - | medium | 25 m (82 ft) |
| 51 | Bovanenkovo Airport | BVJ | USDB | Bovanenkovo | medium | 7 m (24 ft) |
| 52 | Bratsk Airport | BTK | UIBB | Bratsk | medium | 491 m (1,610 ft) |
| 53 | Bryansk International Airport | BZK | UUBP | Bryansk | medium | 202 m (663 ft) |
| 54 | Bugulma Airport | UUA | UWKB | Bugulma | medium | 302 m (991 ft) |
| 55 | Chaybukha Airport | - | UHMG | Chaybukha | medium | 63 m (207 ft) |
| 56 | Cheboksary Airport | CSY | UWKS | Cheboksary | medium | 170 m (558 ft) |
| 57 | Cherepovets Airport | CEE | ULWC | Cherepovets | medium | 115 m (377 ft) |
| 58 | Cherskiy Airport | CYX | UESS | Cherskiy | medium | 6 m (20 ft) |
| 59 | Chokurdakh Airport | CKH | UESO | Chokurdah | medium | 46 m (151 ft) |
| 60 | Chulman Airport | NER | UELL | Neryungri | medium | 857 m (2,812 ft) |
The table shows 60 of the country's 255 large and medium airports, in the declared order: large before medium, scheduled service first, name as tiebreaker.
The geography of Russia's fields
The country's highest airport in the register is Chulman Airport, at 857 m (2,812 ft); the lowest is Privolzhskiy Air Base, at -20 m (-66 ft). The northernmost field is Nagurskoye Airfield (Alexandra Land), at latitude 80.80 N, and the southernmost is Makhachkala Uytash International Airport (Makhachkala), at 42.82 N: 4,223.9 km separate the two extremes in a straight line. Of the 255 large and medium fields listed, 137 had scheduled service in the source's snapshot. Between the highest and the lowest field there is a 877 m elevation gap. The IATA codes at the top of the table: ABA, GRV, KEJ, NSK, ASF, UUD, BAX, HTA.
Source and method
Source: OurAirports, public domain, snapshot of 2026-07-08. The size classification (large, medium, small) belongs to the register itself; heliports and closed fields stay out of Russia's count. The source carries no passenger traffic, so "the two main airports" on this page is a declared proxy: the first two in the table order. Elevations arrive in feet and are converted to meters by this site; distances use haversine, in straight lines. In the world ranking by large airports, Russia sits in 3rd place, next to China and India. The whole world's numbers live in the airports of the world in numbers.
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