The first direct charter from Urumqi came down in Kazan airport.

On August,4 In Kazan an official ceremony marking  the meeting of the first direct tourist charter Urumqi  (PRC) – Kazan – Urumqi with 171 Chinese passengers. Vasil Shaikhraziev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the State Committee for tourism of the republic of Tatarstan participated  at the ceremony.

Tourism programme on direct flights of Chinese tourists to the Tatarstan is the result of collaboration and events, carried out in 2015-2016 by the State Committee for tourism of the republic of Tatarstan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region  Tourism Authority of People’s Republic of China and PRC tour operators.

The operator of flight is the travel company «Xinjang China International Travel Service». The flight will commence twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays up to October, 24 of this year. If the process in this operational period will have positive economic results, the flight is expected to reopen in 2017.

While visiting Russia for a week, Chinese tourist will stay 2 days in Tatarstan, and also visit St. Petersburg and Moscow. In Tatarstan the visitors will see the main landmarks: the Kazan Kremlin, go on a walking tour in Bauman Street, have an excursion around the city, visit  the house-museum of Uljanov-Lenin V.I. and make an excursion to city-island Sviyazhsk..