VGD

Vologda Airport

ICAO ULWW59.2825°N 39.9444°E118 m / 387 ftMedium airport
On the map

Vologda Airport (IATA: VGD, ICAO: ULWW) is a medium airport in Vologda, Vologda Oblast, Russia. It opened in 1931. It has one runway, 1,500 m (4,921 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Vologda Aviation Enterprise. In 2017 it handled 5 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1931–1979
1931
OpenedVologda Airport opens.
16 NOV 1979
DisasterAeroflot Flight 564.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Аэропорт Вологда
15/33 · LIT
LENGTH1,500 m4,921 ftWIDTH40 m131 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2016–2017
6K
5K
1617

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VGD. From the Wikipedia article “Vologda Airport” (revision of 6 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers5K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,913of 3,974 · #590 Europe · #182 RULongest runway1,500 m4,921 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=6,992of 29,823 · =964 Europe · =289 RUElevation118 m387 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,311of 43,341 · =3,255 Europe · =365 RUAgeOpened 19312026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=452of 15,079 · =265 Europe · =11 RURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =32 RU
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