The Domodedovo Airport is on the former territory of a village called Elgazino (Russian: ????????). The village's wrecked wooden houses (Izba) at 55°25?7?N 37°51?53?E and cemetery with 19th century tombstones at 55°25?26?N 37°51?51?E remained in the early 21st century, less than a kilometer west of the runway, almost immediately behind the fences. The first mention of Elgazino dates back to the 16th century. In 1550, Tsar Ivan the Terrible gave his voivode and boyar Ivan Vasilyevich Sheremetyev a smaller estate in the Moscow district with 150 quarters of land. In 1627, the village appears again in the records and appears as a village of Elgozino on a pond with five peasant households, in the parish of the Church of the Resurrection in the village of Kolychevo. According to the results of the General Survey of the 1760s, the village already had 25 households and 218 inhabitants. In the 1950s, just before the village was demolished, it had a population of about 200 people. In 1990s, the airport was privatized and came under the control of the private tourist company (later also an airline) East Line founded by Ural entrepreneurs Anton Bakov and Dmitry Kamenshchik. In 1992, their efforts led to the airport obtaining international status (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 13 July 1992 N 1262-r On the opening of Domodedovo Airport (Moscow) for international flights. Bakov left the business in 1994. By 2009, the terminal floor space was expanded to 135,000 square metres (1,450,000 sq ft) from 70,000 square metres (750,000 sq ft) in 2004. The renovated terminal and airport facilities allowed the owners of the airport to attract British Airways, China Eastern Airlines, Lufthansa, Royal Air Maroc, Japan Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Vietnam Airlines who moved their flights from another major international Moscow airport, Sheremetyevo Airport, to Domodedovo. Domodedovo topped Sheremetyevo Airport in terms of passenger traffic becoming the busiest airport in Russia. By 2010, the traffic at Domodedovo rose to over 22 million passengers per year from 2.8 million in 2000. Domodedovo is Russia's first airport to have parallel runways operating simultaneously. In 2003, the airport began an expansion program designed to obtain approval for wide-body aircraft operations. The runway, taxiways, and parking areas were enlarged and strengthened. In March 2009, it was announced that the approval had been granted, making Domodedovo Airport the first airport in Russia approved for new large aircraft (NLA) operations such as the Airbus A380. The approval signifies that its operations areas comply with size and strength requirements of ICAO Category F standards. On 11 March 2025 the airport was temporarily closed after drone debris fell down on a nearby village and train station during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In June 2025, the Russian government took over the airport after a court ruled that its owners, Dmitry Kamenshchik and Valery Kogan, were foreign residents who had no right to manage the airport. Andrei Ivanov, the former deputy minister of economic development, who headed the airport following its nationalization, later said that Domodedovo was in significant debt and was seeking a new owner. In December 2025, finance minister Anton Siluanov said the government was planning to sell the airport in early 2026. After a failed auction with an initial starting price of 132 billion rubles in January 2026, the airport was finally sold later in the month to Perspektiva, a subsidiary of Sheremetyevo International Airport, for 66.1 billion rubles ($880.2 million).