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Sheremetyevo International Airport

ICAO UUEE55.9775°N 37.3867°E190 m / 622 ftLarge airport
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Sheremetyevo International Airport (IATA: SVO, ICAO: UUEE) is a large airport in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It opened in 1961. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,700 m (12,139 ft). It is operated by Sheremetyevo International Airport. In 2025 it handled 43.1 million passengers.

Timeline

11 events · 1960–2019
26 SEP 1960
DisasterAustrian Airlines flight 901.31 killed
1961
OpenedSheremetyevo International Airport opens.
17 FEB 1966
DisasterAeroflot Flight 65.21 killed
13 OCT 1972
DisasterAeroflot Flight 217.174 killed
28 NOV 1972
DisasterJapan Airlines Flight 446.62 killed
03 MAR 1973
DisasterBalkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 307.25 killed
28 NOV 1976
DisasterAeroflot Flight 2415.73 killed
06 JUL 1982
DisasterAeroflot Flight 411.90 killed
09 MAR 2000
DisasterVologda Aviation Enterprise Flight 9651.9 killed
28 JUL 2002
DisasterPulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560.14 killed
05 MAY 2019
DisasterAeroflot Flight 1492.41 killed

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Терминал EТерминал AТерминал FТерминал DТерминал BТерминал C
06R/24L064° / 244° · LIT
LENGTH3,700 m12,139 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
06C/24C064° / 244° · LIT
LENGTH3,550 m11,647 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
06L/24R064° / 244° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025
31.6M
31.6M
34.0M
40.1M
45.8M
49.9M
19.8M
30.6M
28.4M
36.6M
43.7M
43.1M
141516171819202122232425

Routes

88 destinations · 29 countries
2,500 km5,000 km7,500 km10,000 km2,500 mi5,000 miMVQ · Mogilev Airport · 517 km / 321 miGME · Gomel Airport · 564 km / 350 miPEZ · Penza Airport · 586 km / 364 miCSY · Cheboksary Airport · 618 km / 384 miMSQ · Minsk National Airport · 640 km / 398 miARH · Talagi Airport · 976 km / 606 miBQT · Brest International Airport · 978 km / 608 miIJK · Izhevsk Airport · 991 km / 616 miKGD · Khrabrovo Airport · 1,063 km / 661 miURA · Manshuk Mametova International Airport · 1,075 km / 668 miESL · Elista Airport · 1,171 km / 728 miKRR · Krasnodar Pashkovsky International Airport · 1,223 km / 760 miREN · Orenburg Central Airport · 1,268 km / 788 miGDZ · Gelendzhik Airport · 1,268 km / 788 miAER · Sochi International Airport · 1,405 km / 873 miSVX · Koltsovo Airport · 1,438 km / 894 miNAL · Nalchik Airport · 1,455 km / 904 miOSW · Orsk Airport · 1,497 km / 930 miTJM · Roshchino International Airport · 1,704 km / 1,059 miIST · İstanbul Airport · 1,751 km / 1,088 miESB · Esenboğa International Airport · 1,791 km / 1,113 miEVN · Zvartnots International Airport · 1,833 km / 1,139 miSLY · Salekhard Airport · 1,927 km / 1,197 miNQZ · Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport · 2,295 km / 1,426 miUGC · Urgench International Airport · 2,317 km / 1,440 miNUX · Novy Urengoy Airport · 2,334 km / 1,450 miDAM · Damascus International Airport · 2,510 km / 1,560 miIKA · Imam Khomeini International Airport · 2,513 km / 1,562 miBHK · Bukhara International Airport · 2,676 km / 1,663 miCIT · Shymkent International Airport · 2,743 km / 1,704 miMHD · Mashhad International Airport · 2,760 km / 1,715 miSKD · Samarkand International Airport · 2,818 km / 1,751 miTAS · Tashkent International Airport · 2,819 km / 1,752 miDBB · El Alamein International Airport · 2,872 km / 1,785 miCAI · Cairo International Airport · 2,915 km / 1,811 miNBE · Enfidha - Hammamet International Airport · 3,000 km / 1,864 miSSH · Sharm El Sheikh International Airport · 3,123 km / 1,941 miALA · Almaty International Airport · 3,123 km / 1,941 miRGK · Gorno-Altaysk Airport · 3,133 km / 1,947 miHRG · Hurghada International Airport · 3,215 km / 1,998 miALG · Houari Boumediene Airport · 3,331 km / 2,070 miRSI · Red Sea International Airport · 3,375 km / 2,097 miKBL · Kabul International Airport · 3,390 km / 2,106 miBAH · Bahrain International Airport · 3,471 km / 2,157 miDOH · Hamad International Airport · 3,603 km / 2,239 miDXB · Dubai International Airport · 3,714 km / 2,308 miURC · Ürümqi Tianshan International Airport · 3,730 km / 2,318 miAUH · Zayed International Airport · 3,777 km / 2,347 miMCT · Muscat International Airport · 3,984 km / 2,476 miCMN · Mohammed V International Airport · 4,242 km / 2,636 miDEL · Indira Gandhi International Airport · 4,366 km / 2,713 miUUD · Baikal International Airport · 4,414 km / 2,743 miBQS · Ignatyevo Airport · 5,594 km / 3,476 miXIY · Xi'an Xianyang International Airport · 5,778 km / 3,590 miPEK · Beijing Capital International Airport · 5,797 km / 3,602 miPKX · Beijing Daxing International Airport · 5,833 km / 3,624 miTFU · Chengdu Tianfu International Airport · 5,855 km / 3,638 miGDX · Sokol Airport · 5,860 km / 3,641 miSHE · Shenyang Taoxian International Airport · 6,072 km / 3,773 miKHV · Khabarovsk Novy Airport · 6,138 km / 3,814 miDYR · Ugolny Yuri Ryktheu Airport · 6,177 km / 3,838 miTAO · Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport · 6,308 km / 3,920 miFNJ · Pyongyang Sunan International Airport · 6,395 km / 3,974 miMLE · Velana International Airport · 6,589 km / 4,094 miUUS · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk International Airport · 6,643 km / 4,128 miHAN · Noi Bai International Airport · 6,732 km / 4,183 miHGH · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport · 6,847 km / 4,255 miPVG · Shanghai Pudong International Airport · 6,852 km / 4,258 miCAN · Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport · 7,005 km / 4,353 miBKK · Suvarnabhumi Airport · 7,106 km / 4,415 miHAK · Haikou Meilan International Airport · 7,135 km / 4,433 miSYX · Sanya Phoenix International Airport · 7,216 km / 4,484 miHKT · Phuket International Airport · 7,482 km / 4,649 miPQC · Phú Quốc International Airport · 7,627 km / 4,739 miSGN · Tan Son Nhat International Airport · 7,728 km / 4,802 miCXR · Cam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh Air Base · 7,777 km / 4,832 miMRU · Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport · 8,709 km / 5,412 miDPS · Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport · 10,065 km / 6,254 miBJV · Milas Bodrum International Airport · 2,206 km / 1,371 miDLM · Dalaman International Airport · 2,237 km / 1,390 miGOI · Goa Dabolim International Airport · 5,468 km / 3,398 miCKG · Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport · 6,043 km / 3,755 miCMB · Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport · 6,576 km / 4,086 miSEZ · Seychelles International Airport · 6,945 km / 4,315 miHKG · Hong Kong International Airport · 7,139 km / 4,436 miAYT · Antalya International Airport · 2,178 km / 1,353 miSLL · Salalah International Airport · 4,554 km / 2,830 miDAD · Da Nang International Airport · 7,345 km / 4,564 miDPSMRUCXRPQCHKTSYXHKGSEZPVGUUSMLECMBFNJDYRKHVCKGGDXPKXXIYBQSGOISLLUUDDELCMNMCTURCKBLRSIALGRGKALACAITASMHDNUXNQZDLMEVNISTSVXRENKRRKGDARHSGNDADHAKBKKHANTAODOHSSHNBEBHKIKADAMIJKBQTPEZGMEHGHSHETFUAUHDBBCITUGCSLYESBTJMOSWNALAERESLURAMSQCSYCANDXBBAHHRGSKDBJVAYTMVQSVO
Year-round78
MVQMogilev AirportBelarus · Belavia517 km321 miGMEGomel AirportBelarus · Belavia564 km350 miPEZPenza AirportRussia · Aeroflot, Rossiya586 km364 miCSYCheboksary AirportRussia · Aeroflot618 km384 miMSQMinsk National AirportBelarus · Aeroflot, Belavia640 km398 miARHTalagi AirportRussia · Smartavia, Aeroflot, Rossiya976 km606 miBQTBrest International AirportBelarus · Belavia978 km608 miIJKIzhevsk AirportRussia · Aeroflot, Rossiya991 km616 miKGDKhrabrovo AirportRussia · Rossiya1,063 km661 miURAManshuk Mametova International AirportKazakhstan · Nordwind Airlines1,075 km668 miESLElista AirportRussia · Aeroflot1,171 km728 miKRRKrasnodar Pashkovsky International AirportRussia · Aeroflot1,223 km760 miRENOrenburg Central AirportRussia · Smartavia1,268 km788 miGDZGelendzhik AirportRussia · Aeroflot1,268 km788 miAERSochi International AirportRussia · Rossiya1,405 km873 miSVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Pobeda1,438 km894 miNALNalchik AirportRussia · Pobeda1,455 km904 miOSWOrsk AirportRussia · Aeroflot1,497 km930 miTJMRoshchino International AirportRussia · Pobeda1,704 km1,059 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Aeroflot1,751 km1,088 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · Aeroflot1,791 km1,113 miEVNZvartnots International AirportArmenia · Shirak Avia, Armenian Airlines1,833 km1,139 miSLYSalekhard AirportRussia · Yamal Airlines1,927 km1,197 miNQZNursultan Nazarbayev International AirportKazakhstan · Aeroflot2,295 km1,426 miUGCUrgench International AirportUzbekistan · Aeroflot2,317 km1,440 miNUXNovy Urengoy AirportRussia · Yamal Airlines2,334 km1,450 miDAMDamascus International AirportSyria · Syrian Air2,510 km1,560 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Aeroflot2,513 km1,562 miBHKBukhara International AirportUzbekistan · Aeroflot2,676 km1,663 miCITShymkent International AirportKazakhstan · Aeroflot2,743 km1,704 miMHDMashhad International AirportIran · Mahan Air2,760 km1,715 miSKDSamarkand International AirportUzbekistan · Aeroflot2,818 km1,751 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air2,819 km1,752 miDBBEl Alamein International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo2,872 km1,785 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · Aeroflot2,915 km1,811 miNBEEnfidha - Hammamet International AirportTunisia · Aeroflot3,000 km1,864 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Aeroflot3,123 km1,941 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Aeroflot3,123 km1,941 miRGKGorno-Altaysk AirportRussia · Aeroflot3,133 km1,947 miHRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Aeroflot3,215 km1,998 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie3,331 km2,070 miRSIRed Sea International AirportSaudi Arabia · BeOnd3,375 km2,097 miKBLKabul International AirportAfghanistan · Ariana Afghan Airlines3,390 km2,106 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air3,471 km2,157 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,603 km2,239 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Aeroflot3,714 km2,308 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · Air China3,730 km2,318 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways, Aeroflot3,777 km2,347 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air3,984 km2,476 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc4,242 km2,636 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Aeroflot4,366 km2,713 miUUDBaikal International AirportRussia · Aeroflot4,414 km2,743 miBQSIgnatyevo AirportRussia · Rossiya5,594 km3,476 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines5,778 km3,590 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Hainan Airlines, Air China5,797 km3,602 miPKXBeijing Daxing International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, Aeroflot5,833 km3,624 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines5,855 km3,638 miGDXSokol AirportRussia · Rossiya5,860 km3,641 miSHEShenyang Taoxian International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines6,072 km3,773 miKHVKhabarovsk Novy AirportRussia · Rossiya6,138 km3,814 miDYRUgolny Yuri Ryktheu AirportRussia · Rossiya6,177 km3,838 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Beijing Capital Airlines6,308 km3,920 miFNJPyongyang Sunan International AirportNorth Korea · Nordwind Airlines6,395 km3,974 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · BeOnd, Aeroflot6,589 km4,094 miUUSYuzhno-Sakhalinsk International AirportRussia · Rossiya6,643 km4,128 miHANNoi Bai International AirportVietnam · Vietnam Airlines6,732 km4,183 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · Beijing Capital Airlines6,847 km4,255 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines6,852 km4,258 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Aeroflot7,005 km4,353 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Aeroflot7,106 km4,415 miHAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · Hainan Airlines7,135 km4,433 miSYXSanya Phoenix International AirportChina · Aeroflot7,216 km4,484 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Aeroflot7,482 km4,649 miPQCPhú Quốc International AirportVietnam · Aeroflot7,627 km4,739 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · Aeroflot7,728 km4,802 miCXRCam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh Air BaseVietnam · Aeroflot7,777 km4,832 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Aeroflot8,709 km5,412 miDPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Aeroflot10,065 km6,254 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SVO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Sheremetyevo International Airport” (revision of 6 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

35 airlines · destinations from SVO

Former hub of Aeroflot-Cargo, Aeroflot-Plus, Avianova, Continental Airways, Dobrolet Airlines, Moscow Airways, RusAir, Transaero Airlines and Vladivostok Air.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from SVO. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers43.1M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#48of 3,974 · #10 Europe · #1 RULongest runway3,700 m12,139 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=270of 29,858 · =34 Europe · =11 RUElevation190 m622 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,945of 43,403 · =2,314 Europe · #223 RUAgeOpened 19612026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,721of 15,079 · =952 Europe · =72 RURunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,978 · =32 Europe · =3 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

Radio frequencies

15 channels
APPApron 1 terminal F & Cargo121.900
APPApron 2 terminal D, E & F123.600
ATISATIS Arrival122.075
GNDGround TWY 1 & B119.000
PMSVVOLMET127.875
RDRRADAR118.100
TWRTWR120.700
ATISATIS Departure125.125
DELIVERYDelivery120.875
GNDGround TWY A121.800
GNDGround TWY D & E122.900
APPApron 3 terminal A & B130.350
APPApron 4 terminal B & C134.550
TWR131.500
RADAR122.700