Sheremetyevo International Airport

Sheremetyevo began life as a military airfield northwest of Moscow and was converted to civilian use in August 1959, quickly becoming the Soviet Union's window to the world as Aeroflot's international base. The airport welcomed foreign heads of state and the first western airline services to Moscow. For the 1980 Summer Olympics the Soviet government built the distinctive Sheremetyevo-2 terminal, now Terminal F, which for decades was the primary international gateway to Russia.

After the Soviet collapse, Sheremetyevo fought congestion and a dated image, answering with a wave of construction: Terminal D opened in 2009 as a purpose-built Aeroflot hub, followed by Terminals E and C, an express rail link to the city. In 2019 a third runway and an underground people mover that connects the northern and southern terminal zones beneath the airfield.

In 2019 the airport was formally named after poet Alexander Pushkin following a nationwide public vote. Sheremetyevo remains Russia's busiest airport and Aeroflot's fortress hub, though the sanctions that followed 2022 redrew its network away from Europe and toward domestic destinations, the Gulf, Turkey, and Asia.

Sheremetyevo operates three runways, two on the historic southern side and a newer third runway to the northwest, serving terminal clusters split between the northern B and C complex and the southern D, E, and F buildings, linked by an underground automated people mover. Aeroflot and its subsidiaries Rossiya and Pobeda dominate, running dense domestic banks to Siberia, the south.

The Far East, with international flying concentrated on Turkey, the Gulf, Central Asia, and China since 2022. The airport is also Russia's main international cargo gateway, and winter operations amid heavy snow are a core competency.