GDZURKG

Gelendzhik Airport

Gelendzhik, Russia · Europe

Europe Europe/Moscow

10direct destinations

6airlines

1runway

3,100 mLongest runway

2010opened

Gelendzhik Airport (Russian: ???????? ?????????, romanized: Aeroport Gelendzhik) (IATA: GDZ, ICAO: URKG) is an airport in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It serves the resort town of Gelendzhik and the much larger nearby city of Novorossiysk. The airport opened to passengers on 5 June 2010.

Location

44.582°N, 38.012°E · 30 m s. n. m. (98 ft)

General data

CountryRussia

CityGelendzhik

IATA codeGDZ

ICAO codeURKG

Coordinates44.582°N, 38.012°E

Elevation30 m s. n. m. (98 ft)

Time zoneEurope/Moscow

Runways1

Longest runway3,100 m

Opened2010

Direct destinations10

Official website

Runways · 1

01/19

Length3,100 m10,171 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

History

The building of a new terminal of the Gelendzhik Airport was completed in December 2021. On February 24, 2022, following the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all civilian flights to and from the airport were indefinitely suspended. Federal Air Transport Agency announced the airport's reopening on July 10, 2025, for regular passenger flights with some restrictions. Commercial flights formally resumed on July 18 with the arrival of an Aeroflot passenger flight from Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

Airlines operating here · 6

Other airlines with direct routes

UTair Aviation Red Wings Airlines Ural Airlines Aeroflot Rossiya Smartavia

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Alexey Demin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Gelendzhik Airport (GDZ). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GDZ

MLA

“Gelendzhik Airport (GDZ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GDZ. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_gdz,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Gelendzhik Airport (GDZ)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GDZ},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GDZ}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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