Platov International Airport
Platov International Airport
Platov International Airport (IATA: ROV, ICAO: URRP) (Russian: ????????????? ???????? ??????) is an airport close to the stanitsa of Grushevskaya, Aksaysky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia near the city of Novocherkassk northeast of Rostov-on-Don. It serves Rostov-on-Don (as a replacement for the old Rostov-on-Don Airport) and started operation in December 2017. It is named after Matvei Platov. It was originally planned that the airport would open in November 2017, with passenger navigation starting on 1 December 2017. The project has a capacity of 5 million passengers per year. Azimuth will be the main company serving the airport. The airport was opened on 27 November 2017, with the new highway to the airport and final tests before the operations would commence. The airport commenced passenger service on 7 December 2017, and the old airport was scheduled to officially cease all its operations on 1 March 2018. In 2018, for the first year of operation of the airport, 3,236,000 passengers passed through this airport. The airport has been closed since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the airport functioned as a major regional hub since 2017, all civilian flight operations have been suspended since 24 February 2022. The facility remains closed due to security concerns as of late 2025, with the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) formally dismissing reports of a near-term reopening.
Location
47.494°N, 39.925°E · 65 m s. n. m. (213 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
History
Name choice
Initially, the project name was "Yuzhny" (eng. Southern). During the voting procedure for the new airport's name, "Platov" was the top choice with 40% of overall votes, whereas "Yuzhny" and "Rostov-on-Don International" had 27% and 34% respectively. Therefore, on 20 January 2017, Government of Russian Federation officially named the airport "Platov International Airport", in honor of Matvei Platov, a Russian general commanding the Don Cossacks.
Certification and opening
At the end of September, the airport construction was finished. Then, 16 October, Rosaviation had approved the new airport and the airport plans to commence the testing procedure till 20 November. After all the stages are done, the airport plans to fully open 1 December. The old airport will close, due to development issues, caused by the location inside town. More likely, the building will be demolished. On 18 November, the first aircraft Airbus A319 of Rossiya Airlines and Sukhoi Superjet 100 of Azimuth landed at the airport. These were the test mode flights. On 24 November 2017, the first 150 volunteers tested the new airport's equipment. On 27 November, Platov received its IATA code ROV from the current airport, whereas old airport received a new IATA code RVI.
The airport was officially opened on 7 December 2017 at 11:00am, with the first passenger flight of Pobeda Boeing 737-800 arriving from Moscow–Vnukovo, following with other domestic and international flights. By 1 March 2018, the old airport was going to be officially closed. At the time of construction, Platov airport was named the most expensive airport in Russia.
On 24 February 2022, in relation to the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the airport, together with other airports in Southern Russia, were closed without prior notice.
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BibTeX
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