Presentation of new civil aviation facilities

The package of agreements being signed provides for the delivery and leasing of 90 MС-21-310 aircraft to the Aeroflot Group, as well as comprehensive technical support for a total of 108 aircraft - 90 new and 18 previously contracted. The United Aircraft Corporation is the supplier of the aircraft and the provider of their comprehensive technical support, Avia Capital Services is the leasing company, and the United Engine Corporation is a co-provider of technical support.

Among the civil aviation facilities presented to the President were new passenger terminals at Barnaul Airport named after German Titov, Orenburg Airport named after Yury Gagarin, and Pskov Airport named after Princess Olga; a runway and air traffic control tower at Makhachkala Airport named after Amet Khan Sultan; and the upgraded air border crossing point at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues,

Recently, a number of Russian regions - namely, the Republic of Daghestan, the Altai Territory, the Orenburg Region, the Pskov Region and the Sakhalin Region - have successfully implemented projects to build new airport terminals and to reconstruct airfield and border infrastructure.

First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to all the specialists who participated in this large-scale project for their diligence, responsibility and professionalism. For Russia, having a developed aviation network is an important factor in ensuring connectivity between regions and transport accessibility for remote areas, including in the Arctic, Siberia and in the Russian Far East.

Of course, modern airports serve as an additional driver of economic growth for the regions, helping boost trade, business activity and tourism by offering higher quality service and faster passenger processing.

Bearing this in mind, we are consistently upgrading airport infrastructure. As a result, across the country, since 2021, 20 runways and 26 airport terminal complexes have been brought into service. In addition to the new terminals that we are opening today, new airport terminals have been opened in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Stavropol, Cheboksary and many other cities.

To be continued