The outgoing governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Central Siberia, Valeri Zubov, has established the Krasnoyarsk Aerospace Consortium to develop transpolar air routes to link North America with a range of Asian cities. It is also planning to develop new routes over the region linking Western Europe with Eastern Asia.
The consortium has been set up with the support and agreement of Russia's Federal Aviation Service and the MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee) and GOSNII-Aeronavigatsia, the Russian research body on air navigation. Zubov says that satellite technology will be important in developing the routes.
Russia and Mongolia have signed a protocol to allow the routes to overfly Mongolia.
Source: Flight International
