Passengers at Volgograd Airport experienced flight delays.

After the lifting of flight restrictions imposed for safety reasons, seven flights were delayed at Volgograd Airport, and three were delayed.

Flight restrictions were imposed at Volgograd Airport last night "for safety reasons." According to Rosaviatsia Press Secretary Artem Korenyako's Telegram channel, the restrictions were imposed at 9:12 p.m. Moscow time on January 5 and lifted more than nine hours later, at 6:53 a.m. Moscow time.

During the period of the restrictions, two aircraft flying to Volgograd were diverted to an alternate airfield, he reported.

According to the Volgograd Airport online flight board, the departure of two flights to Moscow and one to Novosibirsk is delayed. Thus, one of the flights to Moscow was scheduled to depart at 9:05 PM on January 5, with an estimated departure time of 2:35 PM Moscow time on January 6. The flight to Novosibirsk was expected to depart at 10:00 PM on January 5, with an estimated departure time of 11:05 AM on January 6.

Flights from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Astrakhan, Samara, and Novosibirsk are also delayed. The longest delay was for a Pobeda Airlines flight from St. Petersburg. It was scheduled to land at 5:35 PM Moscow time on January 5, and is expected to arrive at 2:10 PM Moscow time.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention. On April 29, 2025, he announced his support for the initiative of veterans and participants of the SVO, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. However, some citizens strongly opposed the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.