Digital Design has recently released their rendition of Saint Petersburg Pulkovo Airport (ULLI) for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Serving the city of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, it had more than 18,000,000 passenger operations and more than 144,000 aircraft movements, making it the 4th busiest airport in Russia. 

After a year and 6 months of construction, the Shosseynaya Airport (named after a nearby railway station) was opened on 6th June 1932. The first flights to this airport carried passengers and mail from Moscow. Soon after, the airport had scheduled flights to four other regional airports. During WWII, the Shosseynaya Airport was at the front line during the Siege of Leningrad. It took more than 3 years after the war for the airport to be fully repaired, and the scheduled passenger service between Moscow and Leningrad was resumed. 

In the mid-1950s, a new extended runway was built and the airport could handle larger aircraft such as Ilyushin Il-18 and Tupolev Tu-104. The early 1960s brought AN-24 and Yak-40 to the airport, and flights to Vladivostok also started to emerge. By the late 1960s, more than 60 airlines offered flights to and from Leningrad Airport. In 1973, the airport was renamed Pulkovo Airport, and the new passenger terminals were opened. In 1990, Pulkovo reached the passenger traffic rate of over 10,000,000 passengers. Unfortunately, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the number of passengers rapidly declined. 

In 2007, new terminal expansion projects began, and since then, the Pulkovo Airport has seen a constant rise in passenger operations (with an exception in 2020 due to COVID). 

The Pulkovo Airport is the hub for Rossiya Airlines, Nordwind, Pobeda, Smartavia, and Ural Airlines, and a destination for over 50 airlines flying to 168 destinations across Europe, Africa and Asia. 

Digital Design’s rendition of Pulkovo airport features highly detailed airport objects including interior terminals, custom animated GSE, custom GSX profile, customised jetways, accurate terrain and runway profiles, custom areal imagery, realistic dynamic lighting, St. Petersburg major landmarks, custom helipad at Gazprom Arena, custom animated yachts and boats near the coastline and compatibility with free St. Petersburg landmarks by SkySorceress.

This scenery is available for purchase on SimMarket for roughly 21.50 $ and requires at least 4.10GB of free disk space. 

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