# Vladivostok International Airport (VVO)

> Artyom, RU · IATA: VVO · ICAO: UHWW · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `VVO` |
| ICAO | `UHWW` |
| City | Artyom |
| Country | RU |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 18 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 43.39626, 132.14816 |

## Description

Aeroflot, S7 and Hainan Airlines link Vladivostok to China's main cities — Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, Sanya, Guangzhou and Dalian — making Vladivostok International Airport (IATA: VVO, ICAO: UHWW) the leading international gateway of the Russian Far East. The Knevichi field near Artyom, about 44 kilometres north of the port city, ranked among Russia's fifteen busiest airports in 2024 and posted double-digit growth (passengers up 17 percent in 2024). Its cargo terminal is designed for roughly 30,000 tonnes of palletised freight a year, modest by Asian standards, and main-deck movements are largely charters — Volga-Dnepr among them — rather than a confirmed scheduled freighter programme. Day-to-day volumes therefore ride in the belly on the China lanes; Seoul service is currently suspended, while Air Koryo flies seasonally to Pyongyang. The airport's real strength is its links to Russia's largest Pacific seaport and to the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, enabling sea-air and rail-air combinations with nearby Chinese ports such as Qingdao. The Free Port of Vladivostok regime adds customs and tax facilitation on site. Western carriers no longer serve Russia under sanctions, narrowing routing options to Asian airlines and trucking feeders, with Khabarovsk (KHV) and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (UUS) as the regional alternatives. For Far East shippers, VVO remains the practical node for China traffic and belly cargo.

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