Russia and Mongolia are looking at organizing additional flights from Ulaanbaatar to Russia’s Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk and launching air service between Ulaanbaatar and Vladivostok, Russian Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov said.

"We have set this task at the level of transport ministries and our colleagues are now working on it. Not only flights between Ulaanbaatar and Moscow. We are discussing with the Mongolian side additional air flights to Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, as well as flights between Ulaanbaatar and Vladivostok," Kozlov, who is also a co-chair of the Russian-Mongolian intergovernmental commission, told TASS on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

He admitted however that Mongolia is not a very popular tourism destination for Russians, mainly due to insufficient direct flights.