What Sheremetyevo Airport looked like at the very beginning
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/what-sheremetyevo-airport-looked-like-at-the-very-beginning.htmlSheremetyevo is an international airport of federal significance, the first in Russia in terms of passenger traffic and one of the four main airports in Moscow and the Moscow region. It was built in 1957 initially as the main airfield of the Soviet Army Air Forces, but the official date of birth of the airport is considered to be August 1, 1959. On this day, the company served the Tu-104 liner for the first time, delivering passengers from Leningrad.
The initiator of the creation of the international airport is the head of N.S. Khrushchev. According to contemporaries, he was so amazed by the scope of London Heathrow airport that, after flying back and getting off the plane at the newly built Sheremetyevo military airfield, he looked around the wasteland and said: "It's time for us to build such an airport." By 1970 Sheremetyevo Airport had become the largest.
The airfield received its original name — Sheremetyevo — from two nearby objects - the residential village of Sheremetyevo and the station of the same name of the Savelovskaya railway.
The 1960s — the very first building of Sheremetyevo Airport, was located on the site of the current Sh-2 terminal.
Keywords: 60s | 70s | Airfield | Airport | USSR | Sheremetyevo
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