23:53, 29 August 2025

Volgograd airport has suspended operations

The reception and release of aircraft has been suspended at the Volgograd airport to ensure flight safety.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the Volgograd airport suspended operations on the evening of August 27 due to the drone attack, the restrictions were lifted only the next day. Also on the night of August 28, the Sochi airport suspended the reception and release of aircraft for the same reason.

The Volgograd airport is temporarily not servicing flights, Rosaviatsiya press secretary Artem Korenyako reported late this evening.

"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 at 23:06 Moscow time.

According to the airport's online board, shortly before the restrictions were introduced, at 22:56 Moscow time, a flight to Moscow was sent on schedule, but another flight to the capital, scheduled for 2:55 Moscow time on August 30, is expected to be delayed. A flight from Moscow, which is scheduled to land in Volgograd at 2:50 Moscow time, is also expected to be delayed.

Volgograd Telegram channels after 22:15 Moscow time distributed a message about the drone danger. “A Pobeda flight to Moscow has been delayed at Volgograd airport. Rosaviatsiya has introduced the “Carpet” regime to ensure flight safety. A night Rossiya flight from Sheremetyevo has also been delayed,” V1 reports.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad” have been active 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 the renaming on the same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling the Stalinist era, during which 250 thousand Stalingrad residents were repressed.

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