Which are the busiest airports in Russia and former Soviet republics? (MAP)

May 25 2018

Yulia Shamporova

A greater number of people are venturing over to Russia each year, so airports in the country are getting more and more action. Here’s a handy map so you can compare the busiest in Russia and its neighboring nations.

In 2017 more than 400,000 people (including transit passengers) channeled through 74 airports in former USSR countries. Forty-seven of these airports are in Russia. Vsevolod Bashirov, a Russian blogger, posted these stats on his LiveJournal page after collecting information from official sites, including Wikipedia. Have a look at the map to find out which airports in the former Soviet Union witnessed the greatest passenger flows.

Drawing by Natalya Nosova

For those of you who prefer tables to maps here’s one:

Airport rating by passenger flow in 2017

№	City (Airport)	International code	Country	Airport Passenger Flow	%
1	Moscow (Sheremetyevo)	SVO	Russia	39.6 mln	17,8
2	Moscow (Domodedovo)	DME	Russia	30.6 mln	7,5
3	Moscow (Vnukovo)	VKO	Russia	18.2 mln	29,9
4	Saint Petersburg	LED	Russia	16.1 mln	21,8
5	Kiev (Borispol)	KBP	Ukraine	10.5 mln	22,1
6	Riga	RIX	Latvia	6 mln	12,9
7	Sochi	AER	Russia	5.6 mln	8,1
8	Almaty	ALA	Kazakhstan	5.6 mln	15,6
9	Yekaterinburg	SVX	Russia	5.4 mln	25,7
10	Simferopol	SIP	Russia	5.1 mln	-1,4
11	Novosibirsk	OVB	Russia	5 mln	22,2
12	Astana	TSE	Kazakhstan	4,2 mln	24,8
13	Minsk	MSQ	Belarus	4.1 mln	20
14	Baku	GYD	Azerbaijan	4 mln	24,5
15	Vilnius	VNO	Lithuania	3.7 mln	-1,4
16	Krasnodar	KRR	Russia	3.4 mln	16,5
17	Tbilisi	TBS	Georgia	3.1 mln	40,5
18	Tashkent	TAS	Uzbekistan	~3 mln	n/a
19	Ufa	UFA	Russia	2.8 mln	21,4
20	Rostov-on-Don	ROV	Russia	2.7 mln	32
21	Samara	KUF	Russia	2.6 mln	26,7
22	Tallinn	TLL	Estonia	2.6 mln	12
23	Kazan	KZN	Russia	2.6 mln	37
24	Yerevan	EVN	Armenia	2.4 mln	16,3
25	Kishinev	KIV	Moldova	2.4 mln	9,9
26	Krasnoyarsk	KJA	Russia	2.2 mln	26
27	Bishkek	FRU	Kyrgyzstan	2.2 mln	18
28	Mineralnye Vody	MRV	Russia	2.1 mln	26,5
29	Vladivostok	VVO	Russia	2.1 mln	17,7
30	Khabarovsk	KHV	Russia	2 mln	9,7
31	Irkutsk	IKT	Russia	2 mln	17,7
32	Kyiv (Zhuliany)	IEV	Ukraine	1.8 mln	64,2
33	Tumen	TJM	Russia	1.8 mln	19,7
34	Kaliningrad	KGD	Russia	1.7 mln	13,8
35	Surgut	SGC	Russia	1.7 mln	15,7
36	Ashgabat	ASB	Turkmenia	~1.5 mln	n/a
37	Chelyabinsk	CEK	Russia	1.5 mln	23,8
38	Osh	OSS	Kyrgyzstan	1.4 mln	38,1
39	Anapa	AAQ	Russia	1.3 mln	-3,9
40	Perm	PEE	Russia	1.3 mln	19,3
41	Dushanbe	DYU	Tajikistan	1.3 mln	12,7
42	Odessa	ODS	Ukraine	1.2 mln	18,3
43	Kaunas	KUN	Lithuania	1.1 mln	60,2
44	Lvov	LWO	Ukraine	1 mln	46,3
45	Aktau	SCO	Kazakhstan	1 mln	23,3
46	Makhachkala	MCX	Russia	1 mln	22,8
47	Volgograd	VOG	Russia	1 mln	24,9
48	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	UUS	Russia	985,215	4,5
49	Nizhny Novgorod	GOJ	Russia	966,649	24
50	Omsk	OMS	Russia	963,606	16
51	Novy Urengoy	NUX	Russia	939,625	4,5
52	Yakutsk	YKS	Russia	907,892	3,5
53	Arkhangelsk	ARH	Russia	892,705	21,6
54	Murmansk	MMK	Russia	845,928	10,8
55	Shymkent	CIT	Kazakhstan	811,100	30,5
56	Kharkov	HRK	Ukraine	806,200	35
57	Atyrau	GUW	Kazakhstan	754,100	20,7
58	Orenburg	REN	Russia	744,303	52,8
59	Nizhnevartovsk	NJC	Russia	680,577	7,7
60	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	PKC	Russia	659,154	6,6
61	Tomsk	TOF	Russia	631,524	14,1
62	Voronezh	VOZ	Russia	606,796	39,7
63	Khudzhand	LBD	Tajikistan	~600,000	n/a
64	Nizhnekamsk	NBC	Russia	587,775	54,3
65	Astrakhan	ASF	Russia	582,301	9,9
66	Barnaul	BAX	Russia	521,600	34,8
67	Syktyvkar	SCW	Russia	518,401	14,9
68	Batumi	BUS	Georgia	495,668	58,7
69	Saratov	RTW	Russia	481,503	11,1
70	Belgorod	EGO	Russia	468,787	35,3
71	Norilsk	NSK	Russia	461,922	-10,4
72	Moscow (Zhukovsky)	ZIA	Russia	425,500	869,7
73	Blagoveshchensk	BQS	Russia	406,192	25,4
74	Kutaisi	KUT	Georgia	405,173	49,3

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