Volgograd Airport closed amid drone threat

Volgograd Airport stopped accepting and dispatching aircraft shortly after the drone threat in the region was announced.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Volgograd Airport did not accept or dispatch aircraft on the night of October 23rd. Security restrictions were introduced around midnight and were in effect until almost 6:00 a.m. Moscow time.

Artem Korenyako, a representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency, announced new restrictions on the Volgograd airport. According to him, the airport has temporarily suspended all flights. "The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," Korenyako wrote on his Telegram channel at 1:46 a.m. Moscow time.

Approximately 20 minutes earlier, the RSChS system issued an alert about the drone threat in the Volgograd region, according to a message on the Telegram channel "Volgograd News."

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight information board, a flight to Sochi and an arrival from Kaliningrad are delayed.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport to "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was only renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" after Putin's intervention on April 29, 2025, when he announced his support for the initiative of veterans and participants of the Second World War, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.

At a meeting with Duma faction leaders on September 18, Putin promised to consider Communist Party leader Zyuganov's proposal to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad. Social media users expressed dissatisfaction with the new discussion of this topic.