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Pulkovo Airport

St. Petersburg · Russia · Europe/Moscow

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2Runways
12,402Longest (ft)
78Elevation (ft)
104Route Records
54Airline Records
UTC+3Timezone
32Mapped Stands
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Route Intelligence

54Well Connected
Shortest route
HELHelsinki Vantaa Airport299.6 km
Finnair
Longest route
PUJPunta Cana International Airport8,700.8 km
Transaero Airlines
Nearest international
HELHelsinki Vantaa Airport299.6 km
Finnair
Longest international
PUJPunta Cana International Airport8,700.8 km
Transaero Airlines
Longest domestic
YKSPlaton Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport4,841.6 km
Aircompany Yakutia

Airport Connectivity Score

54/100

Well Connected

Destinations served104 destinations
Airline diversity54 airlines
Haul mix coverage4 of 4 distance categories

Calculated from destination count, airline diversity, and haul-mix coverage. More signals (customs/border access, ground handling capacity) will be added as the dataset grows.

Runways

10L/28R11,146 ftConcreteLIT
10R/28L12,402 ftConcreteLIT

Haul Mix

short-haul
34
medium-haul
64
long-haul
5
ultra-long-haul
1

Geographic Context

Nearest airport
LPPLappeenranta Airport180.7 km
Nearest same country
PKVPrincess Olga Pskov International Airport249 km
Nearest international
LPPLappeenranta Airport180.7 km
Farthest airport
CHTInia William Tuuta Memorial Airport17,490.9 km
Within 500 km: 25 airportsWithin 1,000 km: 110 airportsWithin 2,000 km: 427 airports

10 Nearest Airports

1LPPLappeenranta Airport180.7 kmL
2UTIUtti Air Base219.7 kmM
3SVLSavonlinna Airport248.7 kmM
4PKVPrincess Olga Pskov International Airport249 kmM
5KTQKitee Airport263.3 kmM
6TAYTartu Airport263.3 kmM
7MIKMikkeli Airport267.6 kmM
8VRKVarkaus Airport293.5 kmM
9HELHelsinki Vantaa Airport299.6 kmL
10TLLLennart Meri Tallinn Airport308.4 kmL

ATC Frequencies11

ApronPulkovo Apron120.9 MHz
ATISATIS (ENG)127.3 MHz
ATISATIS (RUS)127.4 MHz
DELPulkovo Delivery121.9 MHz
GNDPulkovo Ground121.7 MHz
RDRPulkovo Radar120.3 MHz
RMPPulkovo Ramp119 MHz
TransitPulkovo Transit131.8 MHz
TWRPulkovo Tower118.1 MHz
TWRPulkovo Tower118.7 MHz
TWRPulkovo Tower (for VFR)133.5 MHz

Top Aircraft Types

320
70
319
38
CR2
13
735
12
738
12
763
12
A81
11
321
7
757
6
737
5

Sample Routes

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HELHelsinki Vantaa Airport299.6 km
short-haulFinnairCS
TLLLennart Meri Tallinn Airport308.4 km
short-haulEstonian Air
CEECherepovets Airport440.7 km
short-haulSeverstal Air Company
AERSochi International Airport1,932.6 km
medium-haulAeroflot Russian Airlines
MRVMineralnye Vody Airport1,933.6 km
medium-haulAeroflot Russian Airlines
ZRHZürich Airport1,966.2 km
medium-haulSwiss International Air Lines
PEKBeijing Capital International Airport6,057.4 km
long-haulHainan Airlines
ICNIncheon International Airport6,798 km
long-haulKorean Air

Airline Records in Dataset54

A3Aegean Airlines
2BAerocondor
SUAeroflot Russian Airlines
5NAeroflot-Nord
KCAir Astana
BTAir Baltic
AFAir France
KMAir Malta
APAir One
R3Aircompany Yakutia
UJAlMasria Universal Airlines
AZAlitalia
6RAlrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
OSAustrian Airlines
J2Azerbaijan Airlines
B2Belavia Belarusian Airlines
BABritish Airways
FBBulgaria Air
YCCiel Canadien
YKCyprus Turkish Airlines
OKCzech Airlines
LYEl Al Israel Airlines
EKEmirates
OVEstonian Air
AYFinnair
HUHainan Airlines
IBIberia Airlines
I8IzAvia
EGJapan Asia Airways
KLKLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KEKorean Air
LOLOT Polish Airlines
LHLufthansa Cargo
3RMoskovia Airlines
Y7NordStar Airlines
DYNorwegian Air Shuttle
BJNouvel Air Tunisie
R2Orenburg Airlines
YQPolet Airlines (Priv)
FVRossiya-Russian Airlines
+14 more

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Airport HistoryEst. 1932

Pulkovo Airport near St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) began operations in 1932 as Shosseynaya Airport, one of the Soviet Union's early aviation hubs, and survived being on the front line during the 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad, when it was closed to flights entirely. Renamed Pulkovo in 1973, it gained its striking 'five-cup' domestic terminal that same year, a celebrated example of Soviet postmodern architecture. A modern new terminal designed by Grimshaw Architects opened in 2013–2014 under a public-private concession, though the airport's international route network has been severely curtailed since 2022 due to sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

✦Pulkovo's original 1973 terminal is nicknamed the 'five-cup' terminal for its five distinctive domed roof structures, a landmark of Soviet-era airport design.
✦The airport sat directly on the front line during the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) and had no civilian flights for three years.
✦The 2013 terminal expansion incorporated public sculptures from artist Dmitry Shorin's 'I Believe in Angels' project.
✦Passenger traffic peaked at over 10 million in 1990, collapsed to about 5 million by the mid-2000s after the Soviet Union's breakup, and had rebounded to around 20 million by the early 2020s before sanctions again affected international traffic.
1932
Airport opens as Shosseynaya

Construction that began in January 1931 was completed on 24 June 1932, when the first aircraft landed after flying in from Moscow, establishing regular flights to northern Soviet cities.

1941
Closed during the Siege of Leningrad

Following the Nazi German invasion, construction and civilian flights halted; the airport sat on the front line of the Siege of Leningrad with no flights operating between 1941 and 1944.

1959
First jet service

A Tupolev Tu-104 departed on 15 March 1959, marking the airport's transition into the jet age.

1973
Renamed Pulkovo and 'five-cup' terminal opens

On 24 April 1973 the airport was renamed Pulkovo; the following month its distinctive five-domed Pulkovo-1 terminal, designed by Alexandr Zyk, opened and became an icon of late-Soviet architecture.

2010
Grimshaw-designed terminal groundbreaking

Following a 2010 concession win by the Northern Capital Gateway consortium, construction began on a new 150,000 m² terminal designed by Grimshaw Architects.

2014
New terminal fully operational

The new Terminal 1 opened for testing in December 2013 and took over all operations by February 2014, consolidating domestic and international traffic into a single modern facility.

2022
Western sanctions curtail international routes

Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, flights to the EU, UK, North America, and many other regions were suspended, sharply reducing Pulkovo's international network.

Operator
Soviet/Russian state civil aviation authorities1932 – 2010State-run for most of the Soviet and early post-Soviet period.
Northern Capital Gateway (NCG) consortium2010 – presentA 30-year concession awarded in 2010 to a consortium historically including VTB Capital, Fraport, and the Copelouzos Group; a November 2023 presidential decree shifted voting control to Russian shareholders while foreign partners retained economic stakes.

Compiled from Wikipedia and the airport's official history page; post-2022 route and ownership details are politically sensitive and subject to ongoing change, so figures should be treated as current only as of recent reporting.