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Kavminvodyavia

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Russian airline

Kavminvodyavia (KMV Avia) was an airline based in Mineralnye Vody in the North Caucasus, Russia. It operated scheduled services to over 20 destinations in the northern Caucasus region and abroad, as well as charter services. Its main base was Mineralnye Vody Airport, which was also operated by the company.² It ceased to exist in 2011.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded¹

Industrycommercial aviation¹
HeadquartersMineralnye Vody Airport¹
Founded inMineralnye Vody¹
Legal formstate-owned enterprise¹

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KMV Avia Tu-154 — Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons⁵

The story

The first airport operation was in 1925, when a French Dornue-Comet was the sole aircraft. The present three-story airport building opened in 1965.

The airline was established in 1961 as the Mineralnye Vody Aviation Group. Its first international destination was Berlin in 1980. The airport and its civil aviation service was reorganized into the Mineralnye Vody Civil Aviation Enterprise in 1988, under the direction of V.V. Babaskin. It was reorganized again in 1995 into the State United Venture Kavminvodyavia, more commonly known as KMV. The airline purchased several Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft in 1997.

Following the 2010 decision of the Russian government to transfer the assets to Aeroflot, the airline ceased operations on 1 October 2011.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kavminvodyavia, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

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Destinations

In August 2010, Kavminvodyavia operated flights to the following:

All flights to the European Union were suspended on 19 June 2007 due to fleet issues.

Scheduled

Armenia

Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport

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Russia

Irkutsk – Irkutsk International Airport

Khabarovsk – Khabarovsk Novy Airport

Moscow

Domodedovo Airport

Sheremetyevo Airport

Vnukovo Airport (focus city)

Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport (hub)

Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport

Novokuznetsk – Spichenkovo Airport

Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

Noyabrsk – Noyabrsk Airport

Pevek – Pevek Airport

Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport

Stavropol – Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport

Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

Ukraine

Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport

Charter

Bulgaria

Burgas – Burgas Airport

Cyprus

Paphos – Paphos International Airport

Greece

Thessaloniki – Thessaloniki International Airport

Israel

Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport

Italy

Turin – Sandro Pertini International Airport (Caselle)

Fleet

In April 2011 the Kavminvodyavia fleet included:

112 first class (3 rows, 4 abreast) and 18 (3 rows, 6 abreast) seats.