Volgograd airport operations suspended

Restrictions on the operation of the Volgograd airport have been introduced for flight safety. The departure of seven flights and the arrival of five are delayed, the flight from Moscow and to Moscow has been cancelled.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the Volgograd airport resumed full operation on August 24 after temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft. Restrictions on the operation of the Volgograd airport for flight safety were introduced before midnight on August 23. By 23:59 Moscow time, the departure of seven flights and the arrival of three were delayed, the flight from Moscow was cancelled.

The introduction of restrictions at the Volgograd airport was announced today at 22:10 Moscow time by the press secretary of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Artem Korenyako.

"Volgograd Airport. Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft have been introduced. The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the online board of the Volgograd airport, the departure of seven flights is delayed - in particular, to Moscow, Kaliningrad, Antalya. The flight to Moscow has been canceled. The arrival of five flights is also delayed, the flight to Moscow has been canceled

Discussions about renaming the Volgograd airport to "Stalingrad" have been actively ongoing since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention - on April 29, 2025, he announced that he supported the initiative of veterans and participants of the SVO, signing a decree on renaming on the same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling the Stalin era, during which 250 thousand Stalingrad residents were repressed.

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