# Mineralnye Vody Airport

Mineralnye Vody Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Минеральные Воды) (IATA: MRV, ICAO: URMM) (also written as Mineralnyye Vody Airport, which "Mineralnye Vody" literally translates to Mineral Waters) is an airport in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Mineralnye Vody. It features a civilian terminal area on its west side with 41 parking spots. The airfield houses a Tupolev Tu-154 maintenance facility on the east side.

## History

On 22 June 2014, Transaero Airlines began operating the Boeing 747-400 from Moscow. The airline operated the aircraft into the airport during the peak holiday seasons on Sundays, with the aircraft carrying a maximum of 522 passengers. To that date, the 747-400 is the largest aircraft to have operated into the airport.
In July 2016, Novaport bought the Mineralnye Vody Airport from Aeroinvest.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan |
| Armenian Airlines | Yerevan |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku (suspended) |
| azimuth | Almaty, Antalya, Astrakhan, Baku (suspended), Batumi (begins 30 March 2025), Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Ganja (suspended), Hurghada, Istanbul, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kirov, Krasnoyarsk–International, Magnitogorsk, Makhachkala, Minsk, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Samarqand, Saransk, Saratov, Sharm El Sheikh, Sochi, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulyanovsk-Barartayevka (begins 1 June 2025), Yaroslval, Yerevan |
| Azur Air | Seasonal charter: Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh |
| flydubai | Dubai–International |
| Ikar | Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg |
| Izhavia | Izhevsk (begins 22 April 2025) |
| NordStar | Moscow–Domodedovo, Norilsk |
| Nordwind Airlines | Kazan, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Orenburg |
| Pobeda | Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Moscow–Vnukovo |
| Red Wings Airlines | Astana, Batumi, Istanbul, Sochi, Tbilisi, Yerevan Seasonal: Omsk, Ulan-Ude (both begin 3 June 2025) Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala, Sharm El Sheikh |
| Rossiya | Krasnoyarsk–International, Saint Petersburg |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk |
| Severstal Air Company | Cherepovets, Petrozavodsk |
| Smartavia | Saint Petersburg |
| Ural Airlines | Dushanbe, Khujand, Moscow–Domodedovo, Osh, Yekaterinburg Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh |
| Utair | Moscow–Vnukovo, Noyabrsk, Surgut, Tyumen |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent |
| Yakutia Airlines | Moscow–Vnukovo, Yakutsk |
| Yamal Airlines | Novy Urengoy, Salekhard, Tyumen |

## Statistics
### Annual traffic

Annual Passenger Traffic :
| Year | Passengers | % Change |
| 2010 | 888,000 | |
| 2011 | 966,562 | 8.8% |
| 2012 | 1,279,539 | 32.4% |
| 2013 | 1,473,446 | 15.2% |
| 2014 | 1,921,669 | 30.4% |
| 2015 | 1,966,492 | 2.3% |
| 2016 | 1,731,558 | 11.9% |
| 2017 | 2,180,178 | 25.9% |

## Accidents and incidents

* On 21 October 1953, Aeroflot Flight 525, a Lisunov Li-2, crashed in bad weather.
* On 31 December 1961, an Aeroflot-Armenia Il-18V crashed while attempting a go-around during a charter flight, killing 32 of 119 on board. The aircraft was one of two sent to pick up people who had been stranded at Tbilisi due to bad weather.
* On 27 February 1972, an Aeroflot Antonov 24B lost control and crashed on approach, after an unintentional application of the thrust reversers.
* On 15 February 1977, Aeroflot Flight 5003 crashed during the initial climb phase of the flight, killing 77 of the 98 people aboard the aircraft.