Direct flights Murmansk – Petrozavodsk will be launched in June

Direct flights will be launched between Murmansk and Petrozavodsk. The first one is scheduled for June 3, 2026.

Planes in this direction will fly every Wednesday, said the head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov. The flight is subsidized from the federal budget, so tickets will cost less.

Ticket sales for this destination opened at the end of March. The flight duration will be about 1.5 hours. The first flight will depart from Petrozavodsk at 11:40. Arrival time in Murmansk is 13:10. At 14 o'clock, the plane will depart in the opposite direction and arrive in Petrozavodsk at 15:25.

Bi-port news agency notes that there are direct flights from Murmansk to Kaliningrad on Saturdays with a return on Sunday. In addition, direct flights to Yekaterinburg will reopen on May 18. Planes will fly there on Mondays and Thursdays. It will also be possible to fly from Murmansk to Kazan on Thursdays and Sundays from June 4.

Earlier it was reported that the Murmansk region entered the top 10 popular Russian regions with ski resorts in the winter season of 2025-2026. Such data was provided by Yandex Travel and Alice AI services. The share of the northern region in the total number of bookings was 2%. The average price per night in a hotel or apartment was 9.1 thousand rubles.