Volgograd International Airport

Volgograd International Airport
Международный Аэропорт Волгоград
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator JSC "Volgograd International Airport"
Serves Volgograd
Location Volgograd, Russia
Elevation AMSL 482 ft / 147 m
Coordinates 48°46′54″N 044°20′48″E / 48.78167°N 44.34667°E / 48.78167; 44.34667Coordinates: 48°46′54″N 044°20′48″E / 48.78167°N 44.34667°E / 48.78167; 44.34667
Website www.mav.ru
Map
VOG

Location of airport in Volgograd Oblast

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 7,580 2,300 Asphalt
05/23 10,761 3,280 Asphalt

Volgograd International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Волгоград) (IATA: VOG, ICAO: URWW) is an airport located 15 km northwest of the city of Volgograd in Russia. It 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. However a more recent report puts 706 UAP at Beketovsk until 1997.[1] Volgograd Airport served as base for Air Volga. When the airline went bankrupt in April 2010, its aircraft and most of the routes were taken over by RusLine.

In 2012 it was announced that Volgograd airport would have a new terminal and runway built which would bring the airport up to European standards, it is currently being built and will be complete sometime in 2017.[2]

Battle of Stalingrad

The 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. After the fall of Pitomnik on 17 January 1943, Gumrak was the only one of seven airfields around Stalingrad still in German hands.[3] On 22 January, a last He 111 aircraft left the airfield with 19 wounded soldiers, the last flight out of Stalingrad for the 6th Army.[4] Gumrak eventually was recaptured by the 293rd Rifle Division on 23 January, leaving the 6th Army without any means of direct support.[5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo C
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya		 Seasonal: Simferopol C
AtlasGlobalIstanbul–Atatürk[6] -
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki -
Nordavia St Petersburg[7]
Seasonal: Sochi 		C
Nordwind AirlinesYerevan -
Onur AirIstanbul–Atatürk[8][9] -
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[10] -
Pegas Fly Moscow-Sheremetyevo C
Pobeda Moscow-Vnukovo, St Petersburg[11] C
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo C

Media related to Gumrak Airport at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑ Holm, Michael. "706th Training Aviation Regiment". ww2.dk. Retrieved 19 Jan 2016.
  2. ↑ SONNE, PAUL. "Russia Kicks 2018 FIFA World Cup Plan Into High Gear". The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ The Great Patriotic War - 1943 accessed: 9 March 2009
  4. ↑ Hitler's War on Russia Google book review, author: Charles Winchester, publisher: Osprey Publisjing, page: 111, accessed: 10 March 2009
  5. ↑ Das Wolf - Third Reich militaria January 1943, accessed: 9 March 2009
  6. ↑ "Rusya'yı keşfetmeye hazır mısınız?". AtlasGlobal. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Liu, Jim. "Nordavia expands St. Petersburg network in S17". Routesonline. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Onur Air'den Rusya Atağı". Onur Air. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  9. ↑ Liu, Jim (2 March 2017). "Onur Air plans Russia expansions in S17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Pegasus adds new international routes from June 2017". routesonline. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  11. ↑ Liu, Jim (9 November 2016). "Pobeda expands St. Petersburg network in W16". Routesonline. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
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