# Rzhevka Airport, St. Petersburg, Russia

**Rzhevka Airport** was an airport in St. Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It opened in 1941. It closed in 2016. It was operated by LSR Group.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ru-9999

## At a glance

- Type: Closed airport
- Operator: LSR Group
- Serves: St. Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Opened: 1941
- Closed: 2016
- Elevation: 17 m / 56 ft
- Coordinates: 59.9800, 30.5856
- Time zone: UTC+3 · Europe/Moscow
- Website: http://www.airport-rzhevka.ru/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzhevka_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2383453
- Weather station: ULLI · WMO 26063
- Ident: RU-9999

## Timeline

- 1941: Rzhevka Airport opens.
- 15 Jun 1970: Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair.
- 3 Aug 1979: Q16485029. 10 killed.
- 29 May 1985: Q16662408. 4 killed.
- 2016: Rzhevka Airport closes.

## Nearby airports

- [RU-0001](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ru-0001.md) Levashovo Air Base · 25 km / 15 mi
- [LED](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ulli.md) Pulkovo Airport · 27 km / 17 mi
- [ULLP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ullp.md) Pushkin Airport · 36 km / 22 mi
- [RU-0065](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ru-0065.md) Pribylovo Naval Air Base · 115 km / 71 mi

## In collections

- [Closed and historic](https://dromopedia.com/collections/closed) #57

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ru-9999/data