Private company

Tuva Airlines

Russian airline

Tuva Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Тувинские Авиалинии», romanized: OAO «Tuvinskije Avialinii») was an airline based in Kyzyl, in the Russian federal republic of Tuva.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1
  • HeadquartersKyzyl1
Yakovlev Yak-40, Tyva Avia AN1179369
Photo: Gleb Osokin - Russian AviaPhoto Team, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Tuva Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Тувинские Авиалинии», romanized: OAO «Tuvinskije Avialinii») was an airline based in Kyzyl, in the Russian federal republic of Tuva.2

The story

The airline was established and started operations in 1932 as a division of Aeroflot. It was privatised in 1992, being owned by the state (51%) and the airline's employees (49%).

In 1994, the airline's director general Anatoly Martshekhi was found dead in his bath, in an apparent organised crime killing.

Tuva Airlines went bankrupt in 2016.

From Wikipedia’s article on Tuva Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Destinations

Tuva Airlines operated the following services as of January 2012:

Russia

Chamsara - Chamsara Airport

Irkutsk - Irkutsk Airport

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Krasnoyarsk - Yemelyanovo Airport

Kyzyl - Kyzyl Airport base

Novosibirsk - Tolmachevo Airport

Todzha - Todzha Airport

Ulan-Ude - Ulan-Ude Airport

Yrban - Yrban Airport

Terminated Routes

Russia

Moscow -

Sheremetyevo International Airport since 1995

Domodedovo International Airport since 2000

St. Petersburg - Pulkovo Airport since 2000

Fleet

Antonov An-2

Yakovlev Yak-40

Sukhoi Superjet 100 (10 aircraft since 2016)

From Wikipedia’s article on Tuva Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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