St. Petersburg - Pulkovo Airport Saint Petersburg (LED)

The Pulkovo Airport was named Shosseynaya Airport until the name was changed to Pulkovo Airport in 1973. The airport's IATA code (LED) is derived from the former name of Saint Petersburg: Leningrad.
The airport was opened in 1932 as a civilian domestic airport. A new terminal was being build when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and the site of the airport became the front line during the Siege of Leningrad. After the war civilian flights were quickly resumed and the new terminal was completed in 1951. The airport reached it peak of ten million passengers in 1990, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, passenger numbers declined with 50% after that and only recently has the airport reached it former peak. The airport has one, new terminal.