Build two hours. The operator hall closes automatically and cannot be reopened.

Check-in is on Terminal A floor 2. It starts at the airline’s time and never later than two hours out. Turkish Airlines, flydubai and FlyOne close at 60 minutes. Reprint machines sit near the information desk, counters 70–71 and 81, and after the turnstiles.

Arrivals on floor 1, check-in on floor 2; domestic and international split after bag drop.

You cannot walk airside from the domestic lounge into the international atrium on a domestic boarding pass. Vnukovo-2 is government. Vnukovo-3 is business aviation. Older maps that send you to Terminal B are stale.

Duty-free and a shop cube sit in the check-in hall; a Coca-Cola fridge is by Gate 15 domestic.

There is no published drinking-fountain tariff. Keep liquids under 100 ml through screening, then buy a sealed bottle. A traveler-reported fountain sits near Gate 19 on the international side — treat it as a hint, not an operator promise.

Prokofiev (domestic Gate 13) and ART (international atrium, Gate 21) are the paid airside rooms.

VIP Lounge is landside on floor 3 — leave at least one hour before an international departure. CIP Lounge Istanbul–Moscow is Turkish Airlines / Star Alliance Gold / Miles&Smiles Elite, not a walk-in. Do not treat older Priority Pass listings as live.