Tolmachevo Airport welcomes guests and participants of Interra Forum

In 2012 Forum is dedicated to the theme "Innovations for Life". Core themes of the Forum will be "New Economy", "City for Life", "The area of innovations".

Tolmachevo Airport is partnering with the Forum for the fourth time. This year Interra Forum will bring together on their sites about two thousand people, including leading experts in the fields of innovation, development of the territories, economy as well as media representatives from Russia, Germany, France, Japan, USA, South Africa, Brazil, China and other countries. More than four hundred members and guests will arrive in Novosibirsk via the Tolmachevo airport.

One of the events opening the Interra Forum will be a charity event "Gentle Hands of Earth" conducted by Russian national fund "Life line" carried out at the site of the Novosibirsk airport. Taking part in the event, passengers and visitors of Tolmachevo can make their contribution to saving the lives of seriously ill children.

The Novosibirsk Airport (Tolmachevo) is the largest air hub East of the Urals on major transit routes between Europe and Asia. The capacity on domestic flights is 1 800 passengers per hour, on international flights - 750 passengers per hour. The airport has two runways. According to business plan in 2012 The Tolmachevo Airport plans to serve 3 155 thousand passengers that is 14% higher than in 2011.

International Innovation Forum Interra - Russia's largest platform for the development of proposals for the development of innovative economy and an innovative society, as well as demonstration of innovative projects.   Forum  attracts more than two thousand participants from over 30 countries every year.