Concession agreement on reconstructing airfield at Domodedovo under development - head of Federal Air Transport Agency
MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - A concession agreement on reconstructing the airfield infrastructure at Domodedovo Airport is currently under development, Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) head Dmitry Yadrov, who chairs the airport's board of directors, said.
"It is still being developed," Yadrov told reporters at the National Aviation Infrastructure Show (NAIS) 2026 forum. He declined to comment on the specific facilities planned for reconstruction, the cost of the work, or the timing of signing the agreement.
Yadrov said that raising fares for servicing airlines at Domodedovo is not currently under consideration. Transferring some flights of Aeroflot , which is based at Sheremetyevo Airport, to Domodedovo is also not under discussion. Aeroflot won the privatization auction for Domodedovo in late January.
Purchasing Domodedovo is an extremely complex project that requires significant investment, Sheremetyevo CEO Mikhail Vasilenko said ahead of the auction. Vasilenko estimated Domodedovo's outstanding loan debt at over 75 billion rubles, and the company's current financial situation "does not allow the company to repay its debt obligations in a timely and full manner," he said. Investments in Domodedovo's airfield infrastructure have not been made for decades, Vasilenko said.
JSC Tsentrodorstroy has been responsible for reconstructing the airfield facilities at Domodedovo in recent years, as commissioned by Rosaviatsia and the Transport Ministry. In 2021, two contracts worth a total of 8.7 billion rubles were signed with the company. One of the contracts worth 696 million rubles was terminated last December owing to the unilateral withdrawal of the customer, AGA(a) federal state unitary enterprise, a subsidiary of Rosaviatsia. Tsentrodorstroy subsequently filed a lawsuit against AGA(a) for 725 million rubles. In February, the company also filed a lawsuit for 1.8 billion rubles against Rostransmodernizatsiya federal state institution, a subsidiary of the Transport Ministry, which had commissioned reconstruction work worth over 8 billion rubles.
The Moscow Region Arbitration Court last June fully upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office to seize the assets of Domodedovo Group, controlled by entrepreneur Dmitry Kamenschik. According to the plaintiff, the other beneficiary was Valery Kogan. The airport was transferred to the Federal Property Management Agency (Rosimuschestvo), after which Andrei Ivanov, former deputy finance minister and first deputy of economic development minister, took over management, and Yadrov became chairman of the board of directors.
