Flight restrictions have been introduced at Volgograd Airport.

Rosaviatsia has restricted the arrival and departure of aircraft from Volgograd Airport due to a threat to flight safety. Flights to and from Moscow have been canceled.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on the night of September 26, Volgograd Airport temporarily suspended the arrival and departure of flights due to a threat to flight safety.

Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft have been introduced at Volgograd Airport, Rosaviatsiya representative Artem Korenyako reported today on his Telegram channel.

"The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," he explained at 11:21 p.m. Moscow time.

According to the online timetable at Volgograd Airport, three flights to Moscow and three return flights were canceled on the night of September 27-28.

There is talk of renaming Volgograd Airport "Stalingrad" has been actively pursued since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention: on April 29, 2025, he declared his support for the initiative of veterans and participants of the SVO, signing a renaming decree on the same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed. At a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions on September 18, Putin promised to consider the proposal of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Zyuganov to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad; social media users expressed dissatisfaction with the new discussion of this topic.

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