List of the busiest airports in the former Soviet Union

This is a list of the busiest airports in the post-Soviet states (handling more than 1,000,000 passengers per year), ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers. Data is from provisional sources.

The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year. Data is sourced individually for each airport and normally originates from national aviation authority statistics, or those of the airport operator.

2025 statistics Rank2025CountryAirportIATACityPassengers2025RankchangeChange2024–20251 Alexander S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo International AirportSVOMoscow 43,400,0000.7%2 Pulkovo AirportLEDSaint Petersburg 20,700,000 1.0%3 Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International AirportVKOMoscow 16,300,000 1.9%4 Moscow Domodedovo AirportDMEMoscow13,860,00011.2%5 Adler-Sochi International AirportAERSochi 12,500,0008.9%6 Almaty International AirportALAAlmaty 11,930,941 4.4%7 Islam Karimov Tashkent International AirportTASTashkent9,986,445 114.2%8 Tolmachevo AirportOVBNovosibirsk9,680,00014.1%9 NQZAstana 9,200,000 10.6%10 Koltsovo AirportSVXYekaterinburg 8,385,0004.2%11 Heydar Aliyev International AirportGYDBaku 7,640,000 1.4%12 Riga International AirportRIXRiga 7,111,000 0.1%13 Chișinău Eugen Doga International AirportRMO Chișinău 6,080,431846.8%14 Zvartnots International AirportEVNYerevan 5,615,789 7.0%15 Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International AirportTBSTbilisi 5,400,000 313.7%16 Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International AirportKZNKazan 5,380,00030.2%17 Vilnius Čiurlionis International AirportVNOVilnius 5,113,452 6.4%18 Khrabrovo AirportKGDKaliningrad 5,000,000 23.8%19 Mostay Kərim Ufa International AirportUFAUfa 4,929,715 4.9%20 Mineralnye Vody AirportMRVMineralnye Vody 4,600,000 55.3%21 Krasnoyarsk International AirportKJAKrasnoyarsk 4,263,566 10.4%22 International Airport IrkutskIKTIrkutsk 4,048,738 2.7%23 Kurumoch International AirportKUF Samara 3,570,00024 Lennart Meri AirportTLL Tallinn 3,488,094 0.1%25 Manas International AirportBSZBishkek TBU TBU26 Knevichi AirportVVO Vladivostok 3,260,000 9.7%27 Minsk National AirportMSQ Minsk 3,025,00018.4%28 Uytash AirportMCX Makhachkala 3,000,000 13.5%29 Roshchino AirportTJM Tyumen 2,764,000 0.4%30 Khabarovsk Novy AirportKHV Khabarovsk 2,578,000 5.4%31 Şymkent AirportCIT Şymkent2,500,000313.6%32 Osh AirportOSS Osh TBU1 TBU33 Farman Salmanov Surgut AirportSGC Surgut 2,214,0340.3%34 Balandino AirportCEK Chelyabinsk 2,160,421 12.3%35 Dushanbe International AirportDYU Dushanbe 2,160,248 37.6%36 Bolshoye Savino AirportPEEPerm 2,004,861 1.7%37 David the Builder Kutaisi International AirportKUT Kutaisi 1,824,720 15.9%38 Aqtau AirportSCO Aqtau 1,700,000 139 Omsk Central AirportOMS Omsk 1,630,000 25.6%40 Kaunas AirportKUNKaunas 1,599,253 512.0%41 Gumrak AirportVOG Volgograd 1,540,00018.4%42 Samarqand International AirportSKD Samarqand 1,521,158 410.1%43 Khomutovo AirportUUSYuzhno-Sakhalinsk 1,460,000144 Zhukovsky International AirportZIAMoscow1,426,0003 4.4%45 Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk AirportMMK Murmansk 1,410,00023.9%46Atyrau AirportGUWAtyrau1,400,000TBU46 Strigino AirportGOJNizhny Novgorod 1,400,000 44.8%47 Alexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportBUS Batumi 1,230,20029.0%48 Saratov Gagarin AirportGSVSaratov 1,064,000 17.5%49 Ignatyevo AirportBQSBlagoveshchensk1,051,00013.3%50 Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportYKSYakutsk 1,040,000 24.1%51 Novy Urengoy AirportNUXNovy Urengoy 1,036,000 24.3%52 Talagi AirportARH Arkhangelsk TBU 2TBU53 Aliya Moldagulova International AirportAKX Aqtöbe >1,000,000 TBU

2024 statistics Rank2024CountryAirportIATACityPassengers2024Change2023–20241 Alexander S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo International AirportSVOMoscow43,711,77319.4%2 Pulkovo AirportLEDSaint Petersburg20,900,0002.5%3 Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International AirportVKOMoscow16,000,00010.3%4 Moscow Domodedovo AirportDMEMoscow15,600,00021.6%5 Adler-Sochi International AirportAERSochi13,725,9791.3%6Almaty International AirportALAAlmaty11,426,65019.7%7 Tolmachevo AirportOVBNovosibirsk9,299,0002.3%8 Islam Karimov Tashkent International AirportTASTashkent8,716,52628.2%9 NQZAstana8,315,10810.7%10 Koltsovo AirportSVXYekaterinburg8,047,0009.0%11 Heydar Aliyev International AirportGYDBaku7,537,00028.8%12 Riga International AirportRIXRiga7,120,0007.4%13 Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International AirportKZNKazan5,369,0003.9%14 Zvartnots International AirportEVNYerevan5,249,6891.5%15 Mineralnye Vody AirportMRVMineralnye Vody4,860,0001.5%16 Khrabrovo AirportKGDKaliningrad4,814,39511.9%17 Vilnius AirportVNOVilnius4,803,7258.9%18 Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International AirportTBSTbilisi 4,750,83028.6%19 Mostay Kərim Ufa International AirportUFAUfa4,700,0000.9%20 Krasnoyarsk International AirportKJAKrasnoyarsk4,282,72113.5%21 Chișinău International AirportRMO Chișinău 4,142,41846.0%22 International Airport IrkutskIKTIrkutsk3,900,0003.0%23 Kurumoch International AirportKUF Samara3,570,0000.8%24 Lennart Meri AirportTLL Tallinn3,491,67717.9%25 Manas International AirportFRUBishkek3,300,000~4.5%26 Knevichi AirportVVO Vladivostok2,971,00017.8%27 Uytash AirportMCX Makhachkala2,898,7313.5%28 Minsk National AirportMSQ Minsk2,800,00012.1%29 Roshchino AirportTJM Tyumen2,776,4176.7%30 Khabarovsk Novy AirportKHV Khabarovsk 2,446,0008.0%31 Osh AirportOSS Osh 2,400,000~4.5%32 Dushanbe International AirportDYU Dushanbe 2,338,0005.0%33 Farman Salmanov Surgut AirportSGC Surgut 2,220,5343.4%34 Şymkent AirportCIT Şymkent 2,200,00018.0%35 Balandino AirportCEK Chelyabinsk 2,100,0002.9%36 Bolshoye Savino AirportPEEPerm1,971,626https://mintrans.permkrai.ru/novosti/?id=3478371.1%37 Omsk Central AirportOMS Omsk 1,726,0292.7%38 David the Builder Kutaisi International AirportKUT Kutaisi 1,722,8093.1%39 Aqtau AirportSCO Aqtau 1,700,0008.7%40 Gumrak AirportVOG Volgograd 1,682,0007.0%41 Zhukovsky International AirportZIAMoscow1,491,0002.8%42 Strigino AirportGOJNizhny Novgorod1,470,0005.0%43 Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk AirportMMK Murmansk 1,466,6492.1%44 Khomutovo AirportUUSYuzhno-Sakhalinsk1,448,5278.7%45 Kaunas AirportKUNKaunas1,427,2849.8%46 Samarqand International AirportSKD Samarqand1,381,32036.6%47 Saratov Gagarin AirportGSVSaratov 1,150,0007.6%48 Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International AirportYKSYakutsk 1,084,000 TBU49 Novy Urengoy AirportNUXNovy Urengoy 1,076,0002.0%50 Talagi AirportARH Arkhangelsk 1,058,000146.0%51 Orenburg Tsentralny AirportREN Orenburg1,005,0003.6%

2023 statistics

Rank2023CountryAirportIATACityPassengers2023Change2022–20231 Alexander S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo International AirportSVOMoscow36,600,00028.7%2 Pulkovo AirportLEDSaint Petersburg20,400,00012.1%3 Moscow Domodedovo AirportDMEMoscow19,900,0006.1%4 Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International AirportVKOMoscow14,500,00011.6%5 Adler-Sochi International AirportAERSochi13,912,8206.9%6Almaty International AirportALAAlmaty9,547,13632.0%7 Tolmachevo AirportOVBNovosibirsk9,093,00019.9%8 NQZAstana7,546,391 25.0%9 Koltsovo AirportSVXYekaterinburg7,380,00026.4%10 Islam Karimov Tashkent International AirportTASTashkent6,800,00039.0%11 Riga International AirportRIXRiga6,630,89123.2%12 Heydar Aliyev International AirportGYDBaku5,850,00033.0%13 Zvartnots International AirportEVNYerevan5,330,30846%14 Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International AirportKZNKazan5,168,00028.6%15 Mostay Kərim Ufa International AirportUFAUfa4,794,78617.3%16 Mineralnye Vody AirportMRVMineralnye Vody4,790,00017.4%17 Vilnius AirportVNOVilnius4,410,00012.6%18 Khrabrovo AirportKGDKaliningrad4,300,625 14.9%19 International Airport IrkutskIKTIrkutsk 3,787,498 43.9%20 Krasnoyarsk International AirportKJAKrasnoyarsk3,774,449 22.1%21 Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International AirportTBSTbilisi 3,694,20523.6%22 Kurumoch International AirportKUF Samara3,540,00022.1%23 Manas International AirportFRUBishkek~3,150,000~16.8%24 Lennart Meri AirportTLL Tallinn2,961,569 7.8%25 Chișinău International AirportKIV Chișinău 2,960,19428.2%26 Uytash AirportMCX Makhachkala2,800,00011.6%27 Roshchino AirportTJM Tyumen2,601,12811.1%28 Knevichi AirportVVO Vladivostok2,593,00022.4%29 Minsk National AirportMSQ Minsk2,497,63120.7%30 Osh AirportOSS Osh ~2,300,000~1.7%31 Khabarovsk Novy AirportKHV Khabarovsk 2,264,00016.6%32 Dushanbe International AirportDUS Dushanbe 2,227,38631.0%33 Balandino AirportCEK Chelyabinsk 2,162,42312.5%34 Farman Salmanov Surgut AirportSGC Surgut 2,147,44819.2%35 Bolshoye Savino AirportPEEPerm1,992,85214.3%36 Omsk Central AirportOMS Omsk 1,680,2065.9%37 David the Builder Kutaisi International AirportKUT Kutaisi 1,671,016103.2%38 Gumrak AirportVOG Volgograd 1,571,24613.0%39 Aqtau AirportSCO Aqtau 1,563,44419.9%40 Şymkent AirportOSS Şymkent >1,500,000TBU41 Zhukovsky International AirportZIAMoscow1,450,0004.3%42 Emperor Nicholas II Murmansk AirportMMK Murmansk 1,435,94510.5%43 Strigino AirportGOJNizhny Novgorod1,400,00016.7%44 Khomutovo AirportUUSYuzhno-Sakhalinsk1,333,1155.2%45 Kaunas AirportKUNKaunas1,300,00012.2%46 Saratov Gagarin AirportGSVSaratov 1,069,0009.0%47 Novy Urengoy AirportNUXNovy Urengoy 1,055,0002.0%48 Orenburg Tsentralny AirportREN Orenburg1,042,000112.7%49 Khujand AirportLBD Khujand 1,025,5379.9%50 Samarqand International AirportSKD Samarqand1,010,938104.9%51 Kadyrov Grozny International AirportGRV Grozny1,005,80629.3%

2022 statistics Rank2022CountryAirportIATACityPassengers2022Change2021–20221 Alexander S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo International AirportSVOMoscow28,400,0007.0%2 Moscow Domodedovo AirportDME Moscow 21,200,000 15.0%3 Pulkovo AirportLED Saint Petersburg 18,200,0000.9%4 Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International AirportVKO Moscow 16,400,0008.9%5 Adler-Sochi International AirportAER Sochi13,011,000 17.4%6 Tolmachevo AirportOVB Novosibirsk7,585,000 12.2%7Almaty International AirportALAAlmaty7,230,15618.5%8 NQZAstana6,001,471 24.0%9 Koltsovo Airport SVX Yekaterinburg 5,840,000 3.6%10 Riga International AirportRIX Riga5,380,779129.0%11 TAS Tashkent5,000,000 46.0%12 Heydar Aliyev International AirportGYD Baku4,400,000 13 Ufa International AirportUFA Ufa4,089,111 2.2%14 Mineralnye Vody AirportMRV Mineralnye Vody4,080,00027.3%15 Kazan International AirportKZN Kazan4,018,000 3.7%16Vilnius AirportVNOVilnius3,915,960106.0%17 Khrabrovo AirportKGD Kaliningrad3,742,387 4,3%18 Zvartnots International AirportEVN Yerevan3,649,76460.2%19 Krasnoyarsk International AirportKJA Krasnoyarsk3,092,342 13.2%20Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International AirportTBSTbilisi2,988,785 78.0%21 CITŞymkent 2,976,880 39.2%22 Kurumoch AirportKUF Samara~2,900,000 3.0%23 Lennart Meri AirportTLL Tallinn2,748,255 111.0%24 Manas International AirportFRU Bishkek2,695,88326.8%25 International Airport IrkutskIKT Irkutsk2,632,83427.0%26 Uytash AirportMCX Makhachkala 2,509,238 23.6%27 Roshchino AirportTYU Tyumen2,341,7274.4%28 Osh AirportOSS Osh2,339,50333.6%29 Chișinău International AirportKIV Chișinău2,308,316 25.1%30 Knevichi AirportVVO Vladivostok2,118,000 16.7%31 Minsk National AirportMSQ Minsk2,068,00020.0%32 Khabarovsk Novy AirportKHV Khabarovsk1,941,5009.0%33 Balandino AirportCEK Chelyabinsk1,922,0005.2%34 Farman Salmanov Surgut AirportSGC Surgut1,900,0004.5%35 Bolshoye Savino AirportPEE Perm1,743,696 9.6%36 Dushanbe International AirportDYU Dushanbe1,700,000 37 Omsk Tsentralny AirportOMS Omsk1,585,994 6.3%38 Gumrak AirportVOG Volgograd1,390,000 3,5%39 Zhukovsky International AirportZIA Moscow1,390,000 ~50%40 Aqtau AirportSCO Aqtau 1,303,560 17,4%41 Murmansk AirportMMK Murmansk1,299,084 4.2%42 Khomutovo AirportUUS Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk1,266,000 18.4%43 Strigino AirportGOJ Nizhny Novgorod1,200,000 19.0%44 Kaunas International Airport KUNKaunas1,158,304 237.6%45 Novy Urengoy AirportNUX Novy Urengoy1,034,640 7.9%46 Talagi AirportARH Arkhangelsk1,000,000 6.0%

2021 statistics