Rosaviatsiya has closed Volgograd Airport.

Volgograd Airport suspended flights for the second time in 24 hours due to a safety threat.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on the night of October 30, Rosaviatsiya introduced temporary restrictions at Volgograd Airport due to a safety threat. A cell phone tower was damaged during a drone attack in the Volgograd Region.

Temporary flight restrictions have been introduced at Volgograd Airport; aircraft arrivals and departures have been suspended, Rosaviatsiya spokesman Artem Korenyako reported. "The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," Korenyako wrote on his Telegram channel at 10:14 PM Moscow time.

A few minutes earlier, residents of the Volgograd region received a warning about the threat of a drone attack. A drone alert has been in effect throughout the region since 10:12 p.m. Moscow time, according to a post on the Volgograd News Telegram channel.

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight information board, a flight from Yekaterinburg is delayed, and the same aircraft's return flight from Volgograd to Yekaterinburg has also been delayed.

On October 15, Telegram users noted that nighttime flight restrictions over Volgograd are being introduced as a "tradition" and practically "on schedule." Drone threat alerts in the Volgograd region have become daily, but they can't always be relied upon. The actual appearance of UAVs over the region is not always preceded by a warning, according to local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot."

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 declared 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.