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Founded | 1992 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2016 | ||||||
Hubs | Kyzyl Airport | ||||||
Destinations | 7 | ||||||
Headquarters | Kyzyl, Russia |
Tuva Airlines ( Russian: ОАО «Тувинские Авиалинии», romanized: OAO «Tuvinskije Avialinii») was an airline based in Kyzyl, in the Russian federal republic of Tuva. [1]
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%).[ citation needed]
In 1994, the airline's director general Anatoly Martshekhi was found dead in his bath, in an apparent organised crime killing. [2]
Tuva Airlines went bankrupt in 2016.[ citation needed]
Tuva Airlines operated the following services as of January 2012: