What the Vologda airport terminal looks like in the SOVIET style (PHOTOS)
Vintage soda machines, a buffet with ‘pirozhki’ (filled buns), table hockey and a waiting area with a carpet on the wall: here you can feel nostalgia for the 1970s!
Russia's last typical Soviet airport, built in the late 1970s, recently reopened after reconstruction. And it has been transformed into a quasi retro art space.
The most “tasty” part of the terminal is the buffet with Soviet-era tea sets that look like they were just taken out of grandma’s cupboard.
The menu is appropriate: fried pies with potatoes, sandwiches with sprats and ‘Napoleon’ cake. Next door is a stylized soda machine.
You’ve probably seen slot machines in old Soviet photographs. The terminal also had some: ‘Battleship’ and table hockey from those times.
Authentic booths with pay phones, meanwhile, were preserved under the stairs. A poster on the wall reminds people: “Don't talk on the phone”.
There is no dial tone: and where can you call from such a device nowadays?
The central zone of the terminal is now a small waiting area in the form of a Soviet living room.
Two armchairs and a rack with books and suitcases against the background of a carpet. Here you can take an atmospheric photo and watch the airplanes take off and land.
The journey into the past begins in Moscow: 32-seat Soviet Yak-40s fly to Vologda – the Vologda airport can only accept this type. Nowadays, airplanes from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Veliky Ustyug fly there.
However, a new, modern terminal will be built next to this one in 2025. The “Soviet” terminal will become a museum, a public space for events and a movie platform.
Movie tourism will become one of the promising directions for Vologda. Even before the reconstruction, this airport attracted Russian filmmakers: recently, the movies ‘Alone’ (2022), ‘Commander’ (2024) and the TV show ‘Lily of the valley: such tender love’ (2024) were filmed there.
