Koltsovo Airport

Koltsovo International Airport is the principal airport for Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the largest city in the Urals region of Russia. Located 10 mi (16 km) southeast of the city center, SVX serves a catchment of roughly 4.5 million people across the wider Urals Federal District and functions as the de facto aerial crossroads between European Russia and Siberia. The airport handles 135 routes to 88 destinations operated by 28 airlines. Yekaterinburg's position as Russia's fourth-largest metropolitan economy and its role as a heavy-industrial, metallurgical, and logistics hub give SVX a markedly more business-heavy traffic mix than most peer Russian regional airports. Ural Airlines — which takes its name from the region — operates its principal base at SVX, and the airport is the carrier's largest and most strategically important operation. Aeroflot, Rossiya, S7 Airlines, Utair, Pobeda, Red Wings, Nordwind, Azimuth, and Azur Air all serve the airport. The domestic network covers almost every major Russian city including Moscow (all four main airports), St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Sochi, Vladivostok, and Kamchatka. International service reaches Istanbul, Dubai, Sharm el-Sheikh, Antalya, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bishkek, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Osh, and assorted seasonal charter destinations, with the CIS and Turkey corridors dominating after the 2022 restructuring of Russian international networks. The airfield sits at 764 ft (233 m) elevation with two parallel runways: 08R/26L at 9,925 ft (3,025 m) concrete and 08L/26R at 8,192 ft (2,497 m) asphalt; only the primary 08R/26L is instrument-lit. Terminal A, the modern integrated passenger building opened in 2009 and extended multiple times, handles all scheduled traffic under a unified roof with separated Schengen-style domestic and international concourses. SVX is also notable as a designated alternate for polar and Trans-Siberian long-haul operations and hosts a significant cargo apron that supports overflight-related freight activity.