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Sheremetyevo Airport

Sheremetyevo
International Airport

Международный аэропорт Шереметьево
Mezhdunarodnyĭ aėroport Sheremet'evo
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Summary
Airport type Public
Operator International Airport Sheremetyevo
Serves Moscow, Russia
Location Khimki, Moscow Oblast
Hub for
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 is located in Moscow Oblast
UUEE
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 Increase0.1%
Aircraft movements 272,970
Movements change 14–15 Increase3.6%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe
AIP of the Russian Federation
Passengers 34,030,000
Passenger change 14–15 Increase0.1%
Aircraft movements 272,970
Movements change 14–15 Increase3.6%

Sheremetyevo International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Шеремéтьево; IPA: [ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə]) (IATA: SVOICAO: 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.


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