Aerobratsk
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 Aerobratsk , also known as Airport Bratsk , is an airline
Airline
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 based in Bratsk
Bratsk
Bratsk is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. Population: Although the name sounds like the Russian word for 'brother' , it actually comes from 'bratskiye lyudi', an old name for the Buryats.-History:The first Europeans in the area arrived...

, Russia
Russia
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, operating regional passenger services. Its main base is Bratsk Airport
Bratsk Airport
Bratsk Airport is an airport in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located north of Bratsk. It is a mixed use airfield, providing 32 parking spaces for medium-sized airliners, as well as a large number of branched fighter revetments....

, which it also runs.

History

AeroBratsk was established in 1967. It was formerly the Aeroflot
Aeroflot
OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...

 Bratsk Division, and was renamed Bratsk Avia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The airline is owned by Rosimushchestvo
Rosimushchestvo
The Federal Agency for State Property Management was a subdivision of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade that managed Russia's federal state property...

 (51%) and its employees (49%). AeroBratsk was acquired by VIM Airlines
VIM Airlines
VIM Avia, commonly known as VIM Airlines, is an airline based in Moscow, Russia, operating international scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights out of Moscow Domodedovo Airport, as well as offering aircraft wet lease.-History:...

 at the end of 2004.

Destinations

AeroBratsk serves the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of 2 December 2009):
  • Bratsk
    Bratsk
    Bratsk is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. Population: Although the name sounds like the Russian word for 'brother' , it actually comes from 'bratskiye lyudi', an old name for the Buryats.-History:The first Europeans in the area arrived...

     - Bratsk Airport
    Bratsk Airport
    Bratsk Airport is an airport in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located north of Bratsk. It is a mixed use airfield, providing 32 parking spaces for medium-sized airliners, as well as a large number of branched fighter revetments....

     base
  • Irkutsk
    Irkutsk
    Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...

     - Irkutsk International Airport
    Irkutsk International Airport
    Irkutsk Airport is an airport in the centre of Irkutsk, Russia. As of 2006, a new passenger terminal is nearing completion...

  • Lensk
    Lensk
    Lensk is a town and the administrative center of Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, approximately west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. Population: -History:...

     - Lensk Airport
    Lensk Airport
    Lensk Airport is a public airport near Lensk in Russia. It works as focus city for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.-Airlines and destinations:*AeroBratsk *Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise...

  • Moscow
    Moscow
    Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

    • Domodedovo International Airport
      Domodedovo International Airport
      Moscow Domodedovo Airport or Domodedovo International Airport is an international airport located in Domodedovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, south-southeast of the centre of Moscow...

    • Vnukovo Airport

Fleet

The Aerobratsk fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2010) :
Airport Bratsk Fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers Notes
Yakovlev Yak-40
Yakovlev Yak-40
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