RUSSIA's Ural Airlines has launched two services from Heilongjiang to Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk in Russia with an Airbus A320, reports Xinhua.

    The Novosibirsk flight departs at 1550 hrs and arrives at Harbin 2205 hrs on Tuesdays while the Chelyabinsk flight departs at 2140 hrs and lands at Harbin at 0630 hrs on Wednesdays. Both flights stay at Harbin Taiping Airport for an hour before return to Russia.

    Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest city, after Moscow and St Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia. It is the administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District.

    The city is located in the south western portion of the federal district and occupies an area of 477.2 square kilometres. Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative centre of Chelyabinsk Oblast on the north western side of the province.

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