“Thanks to subsidies, residents of the Far East will be able to purchase air tickets at a reduced rate for flights on more than 20 popular routes from the Far East to Moscow and St. Petersburg,” the government explained.
This includes routes to Moscow from Magadan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anadyr, Blagoveshchensk, Mirny, Neryungri, Pevek, Polyarny, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Yakutsk, as well as to St. Petersburg from Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, Mirny, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Chita and Yakutsk.
"It is assumed that thanks to the decision taken, at least 450 thousand people will be able to save on air travel," the Cabinet of Ministers added.
At the end of December, the Russian government allocated more than 4 billion rubles to subsidize flights around the country in 2020.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin called for "infrastructural stitching" of the vast territory of Russia and instructed to increase subsidies for regional air travel.