Zhukovsky, formerly (and still occasionally) known as Ramenskoye , is an international airport located in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 36 km southeast of central Moscow, in the city of Zhukovsky, a few kilometers south-east of the closed Bykovo Airport.
History
The airfield began as a military airbase, originally assigned in 1941 to the newly established Flight Research Institute which served as a USSR aircraft testing establishment, with most of the major Russian OKBs having facilities there.
The airfield was used as a test site in the 1980s for the Soviet Buran Spacecraft.[3] It was also used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and cargo carriers.
Until June 2006, jet fighters flights for the public and international customers were available at the Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield (a number of two-seater jets like: Aero L-39 Albatros, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat, for Edge of Space flights, Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum, etc.).[4]