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Shirak International Airport

ICAO UDSG40.7504°N 43.8593°E1,524 m / 5,000 ftLarge airport
On the map
Shirak Airport, 2009 (interior)
Department of Civil Aviation · CC0 · Commons

Shirak International Airport (IATA: LWN, ICAO: UDSG) is a large airport in Gyumri, Shirak Province, Armenia. It opened in 1961. It has one runway, 3,220 m (10,564 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 138 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1961–1993
1961
OpenedShirak International Airport opens.
26 DEC 1993
DisasterKuban Airlines Flight 5719.35 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Shirak Airport
02/20024° / 204° · LIT
LENGTH3,220 m10,564 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
35K
35K
12K
106K
166K
148K
35K
122K
48K
95K
105K
138K
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Routes

4 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsFlyOne Armenia 1Aeroflot 1Wizz Air 1Pobeda 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LWN. From the Wikipedia article “Gyumri Shirak International Airport” (revision of 15 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers138K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,693of 3,974 · #555 Asia · #2 AMLongest runway3,220 m10,564 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#789of 29,823 · #235 Asia · #2 AMElevation1,524 m5,000 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,015of 43,341 · #268 Asia · #1 AMAgeOpened 19612026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,721of 15,079 · =274 Asia · =1 AMRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =2 AM
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
APPGYUMRI APP127.700
ATISATIS128.700
TWRGYUMRI TWR120.600