Donetsk International Airport
airport located 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of Donetsk, Ukraine
Donetsk Sergei Prokofiev International Airport (IATA: DOK, ICAO: UKCC) is a former airport located 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of Donetsk, Ukraine, that was destroyed in 2014 during the war in Donbas. It was built in the 1940s, rebuilt in 1973, and then again from 2011 to 2012 for Euro 2012. In 2013, during its last full year of operation, it handled more than a million passengers. As of December 2025, the airport has been restored for military use.
The airport is named after twentieth-century composer Sergei Prokofiev, who was a native of the region. The former airport, after being destroyed during the 1st and 2nd Battles of Donetsk Airport, has been controlled by the Russian military since 2022.
History
Soviet era
The airport originates from a resolution of the Stalino City Council dated July 27, 1931, which instructed the land department and the municipal services department to find territory for the construction of a civil aviation airfield in the city of Stalino (the name of Donetsk from 1924 to 1961). In 1933, the Stalino airport was founded. In the same year, the first Aeroflot flight was organized on the route Stalino - Starobilsk. These aircraft were used for aerochemical work in the fields, sanitary transportation, and a small volume of passenger and cargo-mail transportation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1431229. VIAF identifies the subject as 9147121677726390619. The Library of Congress control number is n2016039325. Authority coordinates are 48.069, 37.742. 3 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 1973, 2011 and 2012.
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