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Rossiya Airlines OJSC (" AO Aviakompaniya " Rossiya ""), sometimes branded as " Rossiya - Russian Airlines " (" Rossiya  Rossiyskie avialinii "), is a Russian airline headquartered in ___MASK16___ with its hub at Pulkovo Airport . It is based in ___MASK16___ , there are branches in ___MASK28___ ___MASK64___ , Rostov - on - Don Airport and Orenburg Tsentralny Airport . Rossiya is a fully owned subsidiary of Aeroflot . ___MASK97___ is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion ( almost 25 %) of the country that is considered part of Europe , and the larger eastern portion ( more than 75 %) that is part of ___MASK13___ . European ___MASK97___ contains about 77 % of the country ' s population ( 110 , 000 , 000 people out of about 144 , 000 , 000 ) in an area comprising almost 4 million km ( 1 . 54 million mi ); an average of 27 . 5 persons per km ( 70 per mi ). This territory makes up 38 % of Europe . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south , it is defined by the border with ___MASK71___ . This area includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg , the two largest cities in ___MASK97___ . Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of ___MASK97___ ( an oblast ). It was established on August 1 , 1927 , although it was not until 1946 that the oblast ' s borders had been mostly settled in their present position . The oblast was named after the city of Leningrad ( now St . Petersburg ). In the airline ___MASK48___ , a focus city is a destination from which an airline operates several point - to - point routes . Thus , a focus city primarily caters to the local market rather than to connecting passengers . However , with the term ' s expanded usage , a focus city may also function as a small - scale hub . Allegiant Air , JetBlue and Frontier Airlines are examples of airlines that consider some of their destinations to be focus cities . The Gulf of ___MASK84___ is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea . It extends between ___MASK84___ ( to the north ) and ___MASK56___ ( to the south ) all the way to Saint Petersburg in ___MASK97___ , where the river Neva drains into it . Other major cities around the gulf include ___MASK63___ and Tallinn . The eastern parts of the Gulf of ___MASK84___ belong to ___MASK97___ , and some of ___MASK97___ ' s most important oil harbours are located farthest in , near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ). As the seaway to Saint Petersburg , the Gulf of ___MASK84___ has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to ___MASK97___ . Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf . The Ilyushin Il - 114 ( Russian     - 114 ) is a Russian twin - engine turboprop airliner designed for local routes . In the Antonov An - 24 class , it first flew in 1990 . Altogether , 20 Il - 114s have been built . An international airport is an airport that offers customs and immigration facilities for passengers travelling between countries . International airports are typically larger than domestic airports and often feature longer runways and facilities to accommodate the heavier aircraft commonly used for international and intercontinental travel . International airports often also host domestic flights . Some , such as ___MASK53___ in Germany are very large ; others such as Fa ' a '  International Airport in ___MASK20___ , are quite small . ___MASK97___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK97___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK97___ . ___MASK97___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and ___MASK11___ . ___MASK28___ ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK97___ , with 12 . 2 million residents within the city limits and 16 . 8 million within the urban area . ___MASK28___ has the status of a Russian federal city . ___MASK73___ is the third - most populous city in ___MASK97___ after Moscow and St . Petersburg . It is the most populous city in Asian ___MASK97___ , with a population of 1 , 473 , 754 as of the 2010 Census . It is the administrative center of ___MASK73___ Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District . The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley , near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the ___MASK73___ Hydro Power Plant , and occupies an area of . Pulkovo Airport (" Aeroport Pulkovo ") is an international airport serving ___MASK16___ , ___MASK97___ . It consists of one terminal , " Terminal 1 " which is located south of the city centre . The airport serves as a hub for Rossiya Airlines ( formerly Pulkovo Aviation ___MASK59___ ), and as focus city for Nordavia . Pulkovo International Airport is responsible for serving the citizens of ___MASK16___ , as well as the Leningrad Oblast : a total of 6 , 120 , 000 people . Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of ___MASK91___ and ___MASK13___ . The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents . Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres , it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west , the Pacific Ocean to the east , the Arctic Ocean to the north , and by Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , and the Indian Ocean to the south . The division between ___MASK91___ and ___MASK13___ as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct , with no clear physical separation between them ; thus , in some parts of the world , Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents . In geology , Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock . However , the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data . Open Joint Stock Company « Ilyushin Aviation Complex », operating as Ilyushin ( Ilyushin ) or Ilyushin Design Bureau , is a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau , founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin . Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union . Its operations began on January 13 , 1933 , by order of P . I . Baranov , People ' s Commissar of the Heavy ___MASK48___ and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation ___MASK48___ . In Soviet / Russian nomenclature , aircraft from Ilyushin are prefixed Il . The head office of Ilyushin is located in Aeroport District , Northern Administrative Okrug , Moscow . An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight . Airlines utilize aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements . Generally , airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body . A partnership is an arrangement where parties , known as partners , agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests . The partners in a partnership may be individuals , businesses , interest - based organizations , schools , governments or combinations . Organizations may partner together to increase the likelihood of each achieving their ___MASK55___ and to amplify their reach . A partnership may result in issuing and holding equity or may be only governed by a contract . Partnership agreements can be formed in the following areas : The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean , enclosed by Scandinavia , ___MASK84___ , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of ___MASK84___ , the Gulf of ___MASK33___ , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . North West Aviation Transport Company Vyborg ( Russian :  -     ``  '' ) was an airline based in ___MASK16___ , ___MASK97___ , operating chartered passenger flights out of Pulkovo Airport . The company was founded in 2002 and operated a fleet of two Ilyushin Il - 114 aircraft , a type of which only 20 have been built . In July 2010 , Vyborg was shut down . Its airline license was passed to Solaris Airlines . The Neva is a river in northwestern ___MASK97___ flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast ( historical region of Ingria ) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland . Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge ( after the Volga , the Danube and the Rhine ). Pulkovo Federal State Unified Aviation Service Company (    ) was an airline with its head office in Moskovsky District , ___MASK16___ , ___MASK97___ . It operated the Pulkovo Airport and was 100 % state owned . It was the third largest airline in ___MASK97___ . On 29 October 2006 it completed a merger with government owned Federal State Unified Aviation Service Company to form a new company under the Rossiya name . ___MASK91___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK91___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK91___ is generally considered as separated from ___MASK13___ by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK91___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK91___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . ___MASK62___ , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in ___MASK97___ and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of Europe and ___MASK13___ . At the 2010 Census , it had a population of 1 , 349 , 772 . ___MASK16___ is ___MASK97___ ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from ___MASK16___ to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to ___MASK16___ . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , ___MASK16___ was the imperial capital of ___MASK97___ . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . Peter the Great , Peter I or Peter Alexeyevich (  ) ruled the Tsardom of ___MASK97___ and later the Russian Empire from 7 May ( O . S . 27 April ) 1682 until his death , jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half - brother , Ivan V . Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power . He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern , scientific , westernized , and based on The Enlightenment . Peter ' s reforms made a lasting impact on ___MASK97___ and many institutions of Russian government trace their origins to his reign . ___MASK57___ , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative center of ___MASK57___ Oblast and Volga Federal District in ___MASK97___ . From 1932 to 1990 , it was known as Gorky , after the writer Maxim Gorky , who was ___MASK35___ there . The city is an important economic , transportation , scientific , educational and cultural center in ___MASK97___ and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main center of river tourism in ___MASK97___ . In the historical part of the city there are a large number of universities , theaters , museums and churches . ___MASK57___ is located about 400 km east of Moscow , where the Oka empties into the Volga . Population : Nordavia , formerly known as Aeroflot - Nord , is an airline with its head office on the grounds of Talagi Airport in ___MASK54___ , ___MASK97___ . It mainly operates scheduled domestic and regional services . Its main bases are Talagi Airport and Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport . Nordavia is a joint - stock company .