Sheremetyevo International Airport
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Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport is one of four international airports that serve the city of Moscow. It is the busiest airport in Russia, as well as the 11th-busiest airport in Europe. Originally built as a military airbase, Sheremetyevo was converted into a civilian airport in 1959. The airport was originally named after a nearby village, and a 2019 contest extended the name to include the name of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
Sheremetyevo International Airport
"Flying saucer" of the former Sheremetyevo-1 (initial Terminal B)
Sheremetyevo-2 (now known as Terminal F) was built for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
The former building of Terminal C, now demolished for a larger reconstruction of the terminal
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.
Portrait by Orest Kiprensky, 1827
Pushkin's father, Major S. L. Pushkin
Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda Gannibal
Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin during an exam in the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum on 8 January 1815. Painting by Ilya Repin (1911)