Volgograd Airport Reviews

Volgograd International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Волгоград) (IATA: VOG, ICAO: URWW) is an airport in Russia located 15 km northwest of Volgograd.

The Volgograd Airport comprises a civilian airport built on top of an older military runway (3300 m), now demolished. The terminal area parks 42 medium/large aircraft and 91 small aircraft. A military training unit was present at Gumrak as late as 1994, the 706 UAP (706th Aviation Training Regiment), using Aero L-39 aircraft.

Volgograd Airport, then named Gumrak Airport, was used by the German 6th Army as fuel and supply depot (alongside with Pitomnik Airfield) during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942/43.

Volgograd Airport airlines and destinations are Aeroflot – Moscow-Sheremetyevo and Seasonal: Sochi, Astra Airlines – Seasonal charter: Thessaloniki, Ellinair – Seasonal charter: Corfu, flydubai – Dubai, RusLine – Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Surgut, St Petersburg, Yerevan, S7 Airlines – Moscow-Domodedovo, SCAT – Aktau, Transaero Airlines – Seasonal charter: Paphos, UTair Aviation – Moscow-Vnukovo, Surgut and Uzbekistan Airways – Tashkent, Urgench (begins 5 April 2014).