Moscow Vnukovo International Airport is one of the largest air transport complexes in Russia. It ranks 3rd in the country in terms of the number of passengers served. Currently, construction is underway on a terminal that is unique in its architecture and functionality, which will replace a complex of outdated airport buildings. Also here is the first underground railway terminal in Russia, providing fast communication between Vnukovo Airport and Kievsky Station in Moscow. The recently completed part of the terminal was opened to passengers and now serves domestic lines. Let's take a walk around the terminal and see what the passenger sees now, and what he will be able to see very soon.
Source: Zhzhurnal/d0cent
A little information about Terminal A.
The project of the new terminal is being carried out by OJSC Metrogiprotrans. The project is based on a concept proposed by the German company Obermeyer. The total area of the Terminal is 250 thousand square meters. m. The terminal has 4 levels.
On the first (underground) level there is the Vnukovo Airport railway station, connecting the airport with the Kievsky railway station in Moscow; the station project was also developed by Metrogiprotrans. Also at the underground level there are technical rooms and underground passages to the Terminal building, to the street and to the parking lots.
On the second level there is an arrivals hall, luggage compartments, cafes, shops, passport control and office premises. On the second level there are connecting galleries connecting exits to aircraft, halls for transit passengers, passport control hall, arrival hall and technical rooms.
On the third level there is a departure hall and check-in counters for domestic and international flights, passport and customs control, a security check area, passenger areas with shops and cafes. From the departure hall there are 26 exits with jet bridges for boarding aircraft.
The fourth level is located on the mezzanines and bridges above the departure hall, there are restaurants and cafes, departure lounges for VIP and business class passengers.
The main architects of the project are N.I. Shumakov and L. Borzenkov.
Like many passengers arriving at Vnukovo Airport on Aeroexpress trains, we will begin our photo walk from the underground railway terminal.
1. Vnukovo Airport station. Please note: between the rails there is a safety chute for fallen passengers, like at Metro stations.
2. The station is in many ways reminiscent of the metro.
3. Exit to the lower level of Terminal A.
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5. Station ceiling.
6. At the station, as throughout Terminal A, diffused or reflected light is used, which gives softness to the lighting.
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9. Illuminated sides are used on escalators.
10. The lobby is also like in the subway.
11. You can buy a ticket for both the Aeroexpress and both the express and the metro.
12. Lower level of Terminal A.
13. Terminal A architect Leonid Borzenkov and journalists.
14. Leonid Borzenkov.
15. An elevator connecting the lower level of the Terminal with the arrivals/departures halls.
16. Lower level ceiling.
17. Second level of Terminal A: arrivals halls.
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19. There will be customs control of international lines, but for now this part of the terminal serves domestic flights.
20. Baggage claim.
21. Cleaning.
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23. Baggage claim/reception hall.
24. This staircase leads to the not yet completed part of the Terminal, we will go there later.
And then we went up to the third level of Terminal A. This is the departure hall. It makes a lasting impression with its space. The high wavy ceiling with glass inserts and unusual lamp columns, in which light is distributed due to reflectors, evoke associations with some kind of tropical forest. There is absolutely no feeling of being in a closed room. Mezzanines and bridges allow you to use space more efficiently: they house cafes, waiting and relaxation areas with sofas, and there are also VIP rooms.
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26. Third level of the Terminal.
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30. On one side the ceiling is lower...
31. ...on the other hand, it’s the other way around. In fact, behind the advertising banner there will be a continuation of the Terminal, symmetrical to its part in the previous frame, and now there is the old building of Terminal D there.
32. Reception desks.
33. There will be a cafe here.
34. Waiting room and exits to aircraft.
35. And here I found the first cafe of the Mu-Mu chain that I liked. I liked it because in it, as in the entire terminal, you can’t smoke, unlike its urban variants, which I always avoid so as not to inhale the stench of tobacco and get a headache as a result. Well, the prices there, as in all cafes of the chain, are affordable: for 300 and a few kopecks rubles I ate two salads, dumplings, drank juice and tea.
36. Riga and Vilnius are usually included in domestic flights 
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37. Reception desk.
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And now let's go to the part of Terminal A that is under construction; it still needs finishing work. In plan, this part has a teardrop shape and is located perpendicular to the station square and the already completed part. In the center of this wing there is the trunk of a 40-meter control tower for controlling the movement of aircraft and vehicles on the apron. Inside the hall, the trunk forms an elliptical space around itself, where there will be winter gardens and a restaurant courtyard.
39. Arriving passengers will move here.
40. Platform.
41. Gangways.
42. Hall with a tower. This is the most enchanting place in the terminal, even despite its incompleteness.
43. Tower...
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45. It’s probably in vain that I didn’t travel through all sorts of ebony roads in winter.
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47. Climbed to the very top. But then, as luck would have it, a snowstorm began, and no spontaneous spotting happened. 
48. Snow-covered roof of Terminal A, view towards the station square.
49. Visibility: you see for yourself. This is International Terminal B.
50. Naturally, as soon as I got off the tower, the snowstorm was almost over!
51. International Terminal B, and on the left is a piece of Terminal D, which will be demolished and in its place the left wing of Terminal A will be built.
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