List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
2018 statistics
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List of the busiest airports in the former USSR

Section Title: 2018 statistics
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Rank 2018	Country	Airport	IATA	City	Passengers 2018	Change 2017-2018

1	Russia	Sheremetyevo International Airport	SVO	Moscow	45,836,000	14.3%

2	Russia	Moscow Domodedovo Airport	DME	Moscow	29,400,000	4.1%

3	Russia	Vnukovo International Airport	VKO	Moscow	21,478,000	18.4%

4	Russia	Pulkovo Airport	LED	Saint Petersburg	18,122,286	12.4%

5	Ukraine	Boryspil International Airport	KBP	Kiev	12,603,271	19.4%

6	Latvia	Riga International Airport	RIX	Riga	7,056,099	15.7%

7	Russia	Adler-Sochi International Airport	AER	Sochi	6,343,869	6.4%

8	Russia	Koltsovo Airport	SVX	Yekaterinburg	6,103,000	13.0%

9	Russia	Tolmachevo Airport	OVB	Novosibirsk	5,909,078	18.0%

10	Kazakhstan	Almaty International Airport	ALA	Almaty	5,686,926	0.8%

11	Russia/ Ukraine	Simferopol International Airport	SIP	Simferopol	5,146,095	0.3%

12	Lithuania	Vilnius Airport	VNO	Vilnius	4,922,949	30.9%

13	Belarus	Minsk National Airport	MSQ	Minsk	4,536,618	10.3%

14	Kazakhstan	Astana Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport	TSE	Astana	4,500,000	6.0%

15	Azerbaijan	Heydar Aliyev International Airport	GYD	Baku	4,430,000	9.1%

16	Russia	Pashkovsky Airport	KRR	Krasnodar	4,173,000	19.3%

17	Georgia	Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport	TBS	Tbilisi	3,808,619	20.4%

18	Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport	TAS	Tashkent

19	Russia	Platov Airport	ROV	Rostov-on-Don	3,236,000	19.0%

20	Russia	Ufa International Airport	UFA	Ufa	3,222,825	14.5%

21	Russia	Kazan International Airport	KZN	Kazan	3 141 776	19.8%

22	Russia	Kurumoch Airport	KUF	Samara	3,086,000	17.0%

23	Estonia	Lennart Meri Airport	TLL	Tallinn	3,007,644	13.6%

24	Moldova	Chișinău International Airport	KIV	Chișinău	2,828,626	3.1%

25	Ukraine	Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)	IEV	Kiev	2,812,300	51.9%

26	Armenia	Zvartnots International Airport	EVN	Yerevan	2,690,727	10.0%

27	Russia	Knevichi Airport	VVO	Vladivostok	2,634,000	21.0%

28	Russia	Yemelyanovo International Airport	KJA	Krasnoyarsk	2,587,000	12.6%

29	Russia	Mineralnye Vody Airport	MRV	Mineralnye Vody	2,408,000	10.5%

30	Russia	International Airport Irkutsk	IKT	Irkutsk	2,213,098	10.1%

31	Russia	Khrabrovo Airport	KGD	Kaliningrad	2,149,413	20.1%

32	Russia	Khabarovsk Novy Airport	KHV	Khabarovsk	2,142,000	4.5%

33	Kyrgyzstan	Manas International Airport	FRU	Bishkek	2,084,738	3.7%

34	Russia	Roshchino Airport	TYU	Tyumen	1,985,749	8.4%

35	Russia	Surgut International Airport	SGC	Surgut	1,758,310	2.0%

36	Russia	Balandino Airport	CEK	Chelyabinsk	1,630,000	7.4%

37	Ukraine	Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport	LWO	Lviv	1,598,700	48.0%

38	Russia	Bolshoye Savino Airport	PEE	Perm	1,530,000	13,5%

39	Turkmenistan	Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy International Airport	ASB	Aşgabat	1,500,000(2013)

40	Russia	Vityazevo Airport	AAQ	Anapa	1,487,382	9.0%

41	Ukraine	Odessa International Airport	ODS	Odessa	1,446,521	17.7%

42	Kyrgyzstan	Osh Airport	OSS	Osh	1,403,622	0.4%

43	Tajikistan	Dushanbe International Airport	DYU	Dushanbe	1,340,692	2.8%

44	Kazakhstan	Aktau Airport	SCO	Aktau

45	Russia	Uytash Airport	MCX	Makhachkala	1,290,000	27.3%

46	Russia	Zhukovsky International Airport	ZIA	Moscow	1,161,633	173.0%

47	Russia	Gumrak Airport	VOG	Volgograd	1,149,912	13.4%

48	Russia	Strigino Airport	GOJ	Nizhny Novgorod	1,140,000	18.0%

49	Russia	Omsk Tsentralny Airport	OMS	Omsk	1,088,926	14.9%

50	Russia	Khomutovo Airport	UUS	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	1,065,132	8.1%

51	Lithuania	Kaunas International Airport	KUN	Kaunas	1,011,067	14.8%

Sentence(s)

Sheremetyevo International Airport is the busiest airport in the Russian and former USSR.

final_sentence: Sheremetyevo International Airport is the busiest airport in the Russian and former USSR.