Platov International Airport () is an airport close to the

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of Grushevskaya, Aksaysky District,

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near the city of

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northeast of

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. It serves Rostov-on-Don (as a replacement for the old Rostov-on-Don Airport) and started operation in December 2017. It is named after

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. It was originally planned that the airport would open in November 2017, with passenger navigation starting on 1 December 2017. The project has a capacity of 5 million passengers per year.

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will be the main company serving the airport. The airport was opened on 27 November 2017, with the new highway to the airport and final tests before the operations would commence. The airport commenced passenger service on 7 December 2017, and the old airport was scheduled to officially cease all its operations on 1 March 2018. In 2018, for the first year of operation of the airport, 3,236,000 passengers passed through this airport. The airport has been closed since the beginning of the

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History

Name choice

Initially, the project name was "Yuzhny" (eng. Southern). During the voting procedure for the new airport's name, "Platov" was the top choice with 40% of overall votes, whereas "Yuzhny" and "Rostov-on-Don International" had 27% and 34% respectively. Therefore, on 20 January 2017, Government of Russian Federation officially named the airport "Platov International Airport", in honor of

, a Russian general commanding the Don Cossacks.

Certification and opening

At the end of September, the airport construction was finished. Then, 16 October, Rosaviation had approved the new airport and the airport plans to commence the testing procedure till 20 November. After all the stages are done, the airport plans to fully open 1 December. The old airport will close, due to development issues, caused by the location inside town. More likely, the building will be demolished. On 18 November, the first aircraft

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and

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landed at the airport. These were the test mode flights. On 24 November 2017, the first 150 volunteers tested the new airport's equipment. On 27 November, Platov received its IATA code ROV from the current airport, whereas old airport received a new IATA code RVI. The airport was officially opened on 7 December 2017 at 11:00am, with the first passenger flight of Pobeda

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arriving from Moscow–Vnukovo, following with other domestic and international flights. By 1 March 2018, the old airport was going to be officially closed. At the time of construction, Platov airport was named the most expensive airport in Russia. On 24 February 2022, in relation to the beginning of the

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, the airport, together with other airports in Southern Russia, were closed without prior notice.

Facilities

Passenger main terminal

The airport terminal is 50,000 m². There are 9 air-bridges and 9 bus gates. Moreover, the airport complex contains a cargo terminal and a VIP terminal with an area of 2,880 m². The car parking can accept a maximum of 2500 cars.

VIP terminal

The airport has a VIP terminal, with a total area of 2,880 m². The complex was opened in early 2018.

Transport

Shuttle buses go from the center of Rostov-on-Don to the airport, the route interval is from 05:00 to 23:00 every half hour, from 23:00 to 05:00 every hour. Travel time is 1 hour.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operated from Platov International before the launch of the

on 24 February 2022 to the following destinations:

Statistics

Annual traffic

Transportation

Road

Currently, the airport is connected to the city center by M4 highway, which was reconstructed before the airport construction finished. From 1 December, when the flights commence officially, the new shuttle vans will go to the city center every 20 minutes, nevertheless, the Rostov government had purchased 20 vans for this route.

Railway

In perspective, the

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is also planned for the route to city center, but only in case of annual passenger flow of 6 million. Currently, the government of Rostov, are planning to construct a railway line that, apart from Rostov-on-Don, will serve other big habitations, located nearby the airport.

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* {{Airports in Russia Airports in Rostov Oblast Airports of Regions Airports established in 2017