Russian airline Ural Airlines has been granted permission to operate regular flights on new routes to Uzbekistan, according to a statement from the press service of the Uzbek Agency "Uzaviation."

The agency has authorized regular flights on the following routes:

• Sochi – Samarkand – Sochi
• Sochi – Namangan – Sochi
• Krasnoyarsk – Samarkand – Krasnoyarsk

Ural Airlines, a Russian passenger carrier, specializes in scheduled and charter domestic and international flights. The airline’s headquarters are based in Yekaterinburg.