ATMA Atyrau Airport is an airport located 8 km (5.0 mi) northwest of Atyrau, Kazakhstan. It is the lowest international commercial airport in the world at 22 m (72 ft) below sea level.

Atyrau, known until 1991 as Guryev, is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, 2,700 kilometres west of Almaty and 351 kilometres east of the Russian city of Astrakhan.