Sheremetyevo Airport

Sheremetyevo International Airport Международный аэропорт Шереметьево Mezhdunarodnyĭ aėroport Sheremet'evo
IATA: SVO ICAO: UUEE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	International Airport Sheremetyevo
Serves	Moscow, Russia
Location	Khimki, Moscow Oblast
Hub for	Aeroflot Nordwind Airlines RoyalFlight
Elevation AMSL	192 m / 622 ft
Coordinates	55°58′22″N 037°24′53″E / 55.97278°N 37.41472°E / 55.97278; 37.41472Coordinates: 55°58′22″N 037°24′53″E / 55.97278°N 37.41472°E / 55.97278; 37.41472
Website	svo.aero
Map
UUEE Location in Moscow Oblast
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06R/24L 3,700 12,139 Concrete 06L/24R 3,550 11,647 Concrete
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 34,030,000 Passenger change 14–15 0.1% Aircraft movements 272,970 Movements change 14–15 3.6%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe AIP of the Russian Federation

Passengers	34,030,000
Passenger change 14–15	0.1%
Aircraft movements	272,970
Movements change 14–15	3.6%

Sheremetyevo International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Шеремéтьево; IPA: [ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə]) (IATA: SVO, ICAO: UUEE) is an international airport located in Khimki, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 29 km (18 mi) northwest of central Moscow. It is a hub for passenger operations of the Russian international airline Aeroflot, and is one of the three major airports that serve Moscow, along with Domodedovo International Airport and Vnukovo International Airport (the IATA city code for Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Vnukovo is MOW). In 2015, the airport handled 31,612,402 passengers and 256,104 aircraft movements, making the airport the busiest of the Russian Federation.

The airport was originally built as a military object called Sheremetyevsky (Russian: Шереметьевский) named after a settlement with the same name. The decree about the construction of the Central Airdrome of the Air Force near the settlement of Chashnikovo (Russian: Чашниково) on the outskirts of Moscow was issued on September 1, 1953 by the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. The airport became operational on October 7, 1957 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution.