Travel To Tuva

Posted June 21, 2008

Friends of Tuva is occasionally asked for details on how to travel to Tuva.  Unfortunately we do not always have up-to-date information about flights to Tuva.  As of June 21, this is what we have been told by recent travellers.

Most travellers seem to still fly to Abakan and travel the final 421 kilometres to Kyzyl by land.

People have reported finding a Russian travel agency where there are English speakers:
    Roman Averkin Travel agent in Moscow, good English speaker: 7(495)956-50-19
    averkin@davs.ru

The Kyzyl flights leave from Domodedovo Airport, usually a late evening flight.  There was once a flight through Ufa (the city in the Urals) but it is definitely no longer available.

The above mentioned travel agency has no record of Kyzyl flights at this time, however.

Correspondents at  'Tuva Online' provide the following advice:

1. Don't bother with Kyzyl flights because they are not dependable for scheduling.  Go to Abakan.

2. Travellers from Norway were flying through a different city - probably Novosibirsk to Kyzyl.