Rosaviatsiya has restricted operations at Volgograd Airport.

Volgograd Airport is closed for the second night in a row due to a security threat.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," flight restrictions were imposed at the airports of Volgograd, as well as Krasnodar and Stavropol, on the night of September 30. A drone attack disrupted the power supply to three settlements in the Svetloyarsky District. Power was restored to these settlements in the morning.

Volgograd Airport temporarily suspended flight arrivals and departures from 12:55 a.m. Moscow time, said Artem Korenyako, a spokesman for the Federal Air Transport Agency. "The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the Volgograd airport's online timetable, one flight from Moscow, scheduled to arrive at 1:35 a.m. Moscow time, is delayed. The return flight from Volgograd to Moscow is also delayed.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport to "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention. On April 29, 2025, he announced his support for the initiative of veterans and participants of the Second World War, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.

At a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions on September 18, Putin promised to consider the proposal of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Zyuganov, to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad; social media users expressed dissatisfaction with the new discussion of this topic.

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