Simferopol International Airport

Simferopol International Airport

*Міжнародний аеропорт "Сімферополь"*

*Международный аэропорт "Симферополь"*

*Aqmescit Halqara Ava Limanı*
Simferopol International Airport; Міжнародний аеропорт "Сімферополь"; Международный аэропорт "Симферополь"; Aqmescit Halqara Ava Limanı
	IATA: SIP; ICAO: UKFF;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Simferopol, Crimea
Elevation AMSL	597 ft / 182 m
Coordinates	45°03′07″N 33°58′25″E / 45.05194°N 33.97361°E
Website	new.sipaero.ru/en/
Map
	UKFF Location of the airport in Crimea UKFF Location of the airport in Europe
Runways
Statistics (2021)
Passengers
Passengers	6,830,000
AIP of the Russian Federation	URFF

Simferopol International Airport^[1] is an airport located in Simferopol, de facto the capital of the Republic of Crimea. Built in 1936, the airport today has one international terminal and one domestic terminal.

On 14 May 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to rename it Amet-khan Sultan International Airport in memory of Amet-khan Sultan,^[2] despite that Russia occupied Crimea and controlled the airport since 2014. Another airport named after Amet-khan Sultan is Uytash Airport located in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. However, in 2018, Russian citizens voted for the airport to be named after the painter Ivan Aivazovsky after Amet-khan's name was not allowed in the list of final three options to vote for despite being the most popular in the preliminary round of voting.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Since the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the airport is only used for flights to and from Russian airports due to limited international recognition of the annexation.

^ Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Сімферополь", Mizhnarodnyy aeroport "Simferopol’"; Russian: Международный аэропорт "Симферополь", Mezhdunarodnyy aeroport "Simferopol’"; Crimean Tatar: Aqmescit Halqara Ava Limanı, Акъмесджит Халкъара Ава Лиманы) (IATA: SIP, ICAO: UKFF) (Russian AIP: URFF, УРФФ URFF SIMFEROPOL, AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION PUBLICATION, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
^ "Ukrainian Rada voted for the renaming of the airport of Simferopol". rin.ru. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
^ "Аэропорт Симферополя получит имя художника Ивана Айвазовского". December 2018.
^ "Simferopol airport in Crimea to be named after Aivazovsky". news.am. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
^ Shaimardanov, Rinat (28 November 2018). "Добро пожаловать в аэропорт "Амет-Хан Султан" города Симферополя!". Милли Фирка (in Russian). Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[1] Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Сімферополь", Mizhnarodnyy aeroport "Simferopol’"; Russian: Международный аэропорт "Симферополь", Mezhdunarodnyy aeroport "Simferopol’"; Crimean Tatar: Aqmescit Halqara Ava Limanı, Акъмесджит Халкъара Ава Лиманы) (IATA: SIP, ICAO: UKFF) (Russian AIP: URFF, УРФФ URFF SIMFEROPOL, AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION PUBLICATION, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

[2] "Ukrainian Rada voted for the renaming of the airport of Simferopol". rin.ru. Retrieved 14 May 2015.

[3] "Аэропорт Симферополя получит имя художника Ивана Айвазовского". December 2018.

[4] "Simferopol airport in Crimea to be named after Aivazovsky". news.am. Retrieved 15 April 2023.

[5] Shaimardanov, Rinat (28 November 2018). "Добро пожаловать в аэропорт "Амет-Хан Султан" города Симферополя!". Милли Фирка (in Russian). Retrieved 13 August 2020.

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