Russia plans to operate 14 other export flights from Tajikistan to repatriate its nationals stranded here due to the coronavirus crisis.  The flights will be operated until September 25. 

According to the Russian Ministry of Communications, the preliminary schedule of flights will be published in the Ministry’s Telegram Channel Coronavirus: flights to Russia. 

All nationals of the Russian Federation irrespective of the region of registration and residence will be allowed on the export flights.   

Only persons included on the list of passengers of flight formedon the Public Services portal will be allowed on the export flights 

These charter flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Krasnodar and Yekaterinburg will be operated by Ural Airlines.  The flights will be operated mainly from Dushanbe and only three flights will be operated from Khujand: two to Moscow and one to St. Petersburg.  

Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.  It operates scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport. 

The airline was founded in 1943 as Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises, and later became part of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, being in charge of Yekaterinburg Airport.  Following the split-up of Aeroflot, Ural Airlines became a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation on December 28, 1993, and the airline business was separated from the airport.