Makhachkala, December 9, 2015. In the 11 months of 2015, the international airport of Makhachkala, increased passenger traffic by 34% compared to the same period of 2013, so that the figure reached 638.421 thousand passengers, the assistant director general of the airport Imara Abumislimova said.

As to Abumislimova, the number of departures increased by 16.7% - up to 6,350 thousand flights. "The stable growth rates is associated with the completion of work on the first phase of the project

"The reconstruction and development of the airport of Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan", which allowed the airport of Makhachkala to adopt new types of aircrafts and to expand route network" - Abumislimov said.