As part of the Airport Strategic Development Plan the following projects have been completed at Vnukovo International between 2003 and 2009.

The most significant, labor-intensive and time-critical among the projects was the construction and introduction into service in April, 2004 of the Airport’s new passenger Terminal B. The Terminal’s total floor space offering stands at eighteen thousand square meters allowing for the annual passenger throughput capacity of four million. The new terminal building is a unique engineering structure with no equals in Russia to date.

The Terminal incorporates a three-level passenger handling arrangement. The first level accommodates passenger and baggage check-in and baggage claim, the second level is allocated for arrivals and transit passenger services and the third level is where all the international departures are handled. It also houses a separate first- and business-class passenger check-in and lounge area. All the passengers using Terminal B can avail themselves of a variety of services and consumer goods on offer at the cafes, bars, restaurants and duty free shops located here.

Apart from the new terminal, the following among the most significant projects completed in 2004 deserve a special mention.

The construction of the 4-level boarding/disembarkation concourse of the new International Terminal B was finished in the December of 2004. The concourse has a total of seven thousand square meters of floor space and is equipped with 5 air bridges that help radically improve the level of customer service offered to our international passengers.

2004 also saw the service entry of two forecourt multilevel car parks jointly offering parking space for up to 700 cars. The car parks as a project were financed and supervised by Messrs. Vnukovo Invest. Each level of these imposing structures is in fact a single parking area with clear surface markings and undivided by any walls or partitions. All entry into and exiting of the car parks are via separate non-intersecting ramps. As a means to further improve the safety of car park navigation the entries and exits to each level are equipped with traffic lights and gates. Both car parks have comprehensive CCTV surveillance systems installed that operate around the clock.

One of major efforts to develop the Airport’s access infrastructure was the fundamental upgrading of the road access network connecting Vnukovo Intl. with the nation’s capital. 2003-2004 saw the renovation of the Kievskoye Highway span between the Moscow Ring Road and the Airport. The renovation work included the broadening of the highway up to eight traffic lanes and construction of a number of all-new road interchanges and spaghetti junctions. The now operational span of the Highway is complete with sound barriers, elevated and enclosed pedestrian crossings and a powerful all-weather lighting system.

In 2004-2005 the Airport Expressway connecting the Airport’s forecourt with the Kievskoye Highway as well as the latter’s span between the governmental facility of Vnukovo-2 and the Borovskoye Highway also underwent a major renovation.

In July 2004 first stage of the intermodal passenger transfer system between Vnukovo Intl. and Kievsky Train Station in downtown Moscow was launched It is in essence a speed-rail link operated jointly by Public Joint-Stock Company Russian Railroads and PJSC Vnukovo Airport striving to provide European-level comfort and customer service.

The project’s second stage included the inauguration in December 2004 of the Downtown Vnukovo Aeroexpress Terminal at Kievsky Train Station, Moscow. The terminal with the total floor space of one thousand square meters offers check-in, information and ticket-office areas. Domestic passengers flying out of Vnukovo International can complete their check-in and check their hold baggage here. Air and rail tickets are also sold on the premises. On the day the Terminal was inaugurated scheduled Vnukovo Aeroxpress train services to the Airport commenced.

In August 2005 with the completion of the underground spur track linking Vnukovo Airport train station with the Airport’s landside forecourt area and the inauguration of the first phase of Vnukovo’s underground Rail Terminal the bulk of work on the intermodal passenger transfer system can be said to have been completed.

The Vnukovo Underground Rail Terminal is an engineering marvel hitherto unseen in the domestic construction engineering experience. A 21-meter wide train station is also 21 meters below ground level with ground-embedded bearing walls of cast-in-place reinforced concrete and precast ceiling slabs. The interior decorations include such materials as granite, marble, Alucobond© and Luxolon©

The underground Rail Terminal comprises a platform with the total area of 2000 square meters, an entrance hall, a pedestrian passage, a ticket office hall, and a dispatch office. The Terminal is complete with escalators and passenger elevators as well all the requisite life-support systems and communications (power supply, telecoms, ventilation and fire safety systems). For enhanced passenger comfort and wellbeing there is a layer of sound absorbing mats underlying platform area interior decorations throughout and reducing overall noise levels created by train movements in enclosed space.

An underground train terminal of this kind has a number of features significantly differentiating it from a typical subway station. These features for the most part have to do with the additional passenger handling and services-related requirements that apply in this case. The platform section of the station for instance is subdivided into two sections – the passenger platform per se and the luggage section where all luggage checked by the passengers at Kievsky Station Terminal is handled and reloaded.

The spur track connecting the underground Train Terminal with Vnukovo Airport train station has spans both on the ground surface and below it. The underground span is 1432 meters in length with the width of 14,5 to 19,5 meters and depth of 22 meters all the way to the ramp section taking the rail track to the surface. The underground tunnel section is also based on the bearing ‘wall-in-ground’ technology with pre-cast ceiling slabs.

Vnukovo International’s intermodal transit system allowed to expand both the scope and quality of passenger transfer and customer services between downtown Moscow and the Airport. The average journey time to the Airport from Moscow has been reduced drastically and currently comprises a mere half hour.

Now that the first phase of the underground Rail Terminal has been put into operation the work is continuing on phase two. A second entrance hall is to be added eventually along with a number of service and technical areas, surface entrance pavilions as well as additional underground pedestrian crossings connecting the underground rail terminal with the Airport’s passenger terminals.

The project’s final stage shall involve the construction over the underground terminal of an elevated horseshoe-shaped expressway 2,5 kilometers in length which shall serve as the new International Terminal’s curbside pickup and drop-off area. The construction of the new Terminal A itself is to be completed in 2009.