Russia’s MAKS International Air Show may be postponed to 2024, Viktor Kladov, Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy at the Rostec state-run corporation, told TASS.

"The MAKS [air show] will not probably take place this year, with all the contracts remaining in force, and the list of participants staying valid, as the event will be held in a year’s time," he said on the sidelines of the International Maritime Defense Show (IMDS) outside St. Petersburg.

Earlier, an organizing committee official told TASS that the event may be delayed to a later date.

Originally, the air show was scheduled to take place in Zhukovsky, a town southeast of Moscow, on July 25-30.

The IMDS-2023 is running in Kronshtadt on June 21-25. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is the organizer of the event. For the first time ever, the Museum of Naval Glory and the Congressional and Exhibition Center on the premises of a tourist and recreational cluster, Fort Island, is hosting the event. The exposition of shipbuilding enterprises has brought together over 250 leading Russian and foreign participants. TASS is a strategic media partner of the maritime defense show.