Saransk International Airport

ICAO UWPS54.1251°N 45.2123°E206 m / 676 ftLarge airport

Saransk International Airport (IATA: SKX, ICAO: UWPS) is a large airport in Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, Russia. It has one runway, 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long, concrete. In 2021 it handled 104 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

02/20033° / 213°

LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH42 m138 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2016–2021

31K

41K

104K

162021

Routes

8 destinations · 3 countries

Year-round6

KZNKazan International AirportRussia · UVT Aero308 km191 mi SVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Rossiya537 km334 mi SVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines1,023 km636 mi LEDPulkovo AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines, Azimuth1,100 km684 mi MRVMineralnye Vody AirportRussia · Azimuth1,112 km691 mi AERSochi International AirportRussia · Azimuth1,247 km775 mi

Seasonal charter2

AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Red Wings Airlines2,211 km1,374 mi SSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Red Wings Airlines3,038 km1,888 mi

Most destinationsRed Wings Airlines 4Azimuth 3UVT Aero 1Rossiya 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers104K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,801of 3,974 · #381 Europe · #83 RU Longest runway2,800 m9,186 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,614of 29,823 · =256 Europe · =94 RU Elevation206 m676 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=23,837of 43,341 · =2,144 Europe · =190 RU Runways11 · 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