“In 2023, we are completing the development of a master plan, then we will begin designing a new airport infrastructure, including a new air terminal complex.
Thus, the ambitious plans are aimed at commissioning new facilities by 2026,” he told reporters, Interfax quoted Nikonov as saying.
The total investment in infrastructure projects of the airport is planned to be more than 20 billion rubles.
The agency notes that at the end of 2021, the passenger traffic of the airport exceeded 11.1 million passengers and became a record.
In 2022, the figure could grow to 13 million people.