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Aurora Airlines, a member of the Aeroflot Group, held a ceremony to mark Russian Civil Aviation Day, the industry's professional holiday. On February 7, 2020, Aurora Airlines, a member of the Aeroflot Group, held a ceremony to mark Russian Civil Aviation Day—the industry's professional holiday.

More than 100 Aurora employees were awarded honorary certificates and letters of appreciation for their achievements, their many years of hard work, and their great contribution to the development and improvement of the enterprise's business activities on behalf of Aurora management, the Governor of Sakhalin Region, the Ministry of Transport and Road Management of Sakhalin Region, the Legislative Assembly, the Duma, and the heads of the local administrations of Primorye and Khabarovsk Territories.
In 2020, Civil Aviation of the Far East celebrated its 90th anniversary. The starting point of this significant date was the opening of the first Far Eastern regular passenger airline Khabarovsk–Nikolaevsk-on-Amur–Okha (Sakhalin Island)–Alexandrovsk-on-Sakhalin by the future Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Mikhail Vodopyanov, on January 9, 1930. Therefore, January 9 became the official birthday of Civil Aviation in the Russian Far East.

The Khabarovsk–Sakhalin line connected Khabarovsk—the center of the Far Eastern Territory—with Sakhalin fisheries and oil fields, gave impetus to the rapid development of aviation in the Far Eastern Territory, and demonstrated the great skills of the first pilots.

Later, Soviet aviators would lay air routes to Kamchatka, Chukotka, Primorye, the Amur Region, Yakutia, and to the Okhotsk coast. However, this line was the first that marked the beginning of the development of the entire Civil Aviation of the Far East.

Aurora Airlines JSC is a member of the Aeroflot Group established in 2013. The Aurora fleet currently consists of 23 aircraft: ten medium-range Airbus A319, ten DHC-8, and three intraregional DHC-6 airplanes. Aurora successfully passed the IATA Operational Safety Audit. Aurora operates regular international flights to Seoul, Busan, Harbin, Beijing, Tokyo, and Sapporo. The Airline has the following domestic destinations: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Magadan, Yakutsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Blagoveshchensk, Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Aurora Airlines also operates regular socially significant local flights within Sakhalin Region and Primorye Territory. Aurora Airlines won the prestigious Wings of Russia award in 2016 and 2017 in the Regional Air Transportation category, as well as in 2018 in the Group 2 Domestic Air Transportation category. In addition, Aurora is the Far Eastern Trademark of the Year in the Regional Brand category.