URWW
Volgograd International Airport
VFR
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Name
Volgograd International Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
URWW / VOG / URWW
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- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
12:43 pm (VOLT)
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Municipality
Volgograd
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Coordinates
48° 46′ 57″ N 44° 20′ 43″ E
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Elevation
476 ft (145 m MSL)
About Volgograd International Airport
Volgograd International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Волгоград) (IATA: VOG, ICAO: URWW) is an airport located 15 km northwest of the city of Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, 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. 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.