Published on: 2026-04-21
Source: Nordwind Airlines –
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By Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, the airline will provide to WWII veteransAir tickets as a gift for domestic routes*.
The special offer will be available when booking direct flights from April 24 to May 19, 2026.
Air tickets as gifts are provided to the following categories of citizens:
- to the participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;
- Disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 of groups 1, 2, and 3;
- to an accompanying participant or a WWII invalid of groups 1, 2, 3;
- former underage prisoners of fascism;
- accompanying the former underage prisoner of fascism;
- Military personnel who have served in military units, institutions, military educational establishments, not serving in the active army, for a period of no less than 6 months from June 22, 1941, to September 3, 1945; military personnel awarded orders or medals of the USSR for service during the specified period;
- Persons awarded the badge “Blockade Resident of Leningrad”;
- Persons awarded the badge “Resident of besieged Sevastopol”;
- Persons awarded the badge “Resident of Besieged Stalingrad”;
- Persons who worked at air defense facilities, local air defense, construction of defensive structures, naval bases, airfields, and other military facilities within the rear boundaries of active fronts, operational zones of active fleets, in frontline sections of railways and highways, as well as members of crews of transport fleet vessels, interned at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the ports of other states.
One accompanying person (a citizen of the Russian Federation) can follow one WWII veteran for free. Joint accompaniment of the escort and the escorted is mandatory.
To arrange your ticket, please contact the ticket agency in your city or send a request throughPassenger Support Centerairlines.
*As part of this special offer, a World War II veteran is provided with a gift in the form of airline tickets for themselves and one accompanying person for domestic flights of the airline on a “round-trip” route. Veterans are entitled to receive the gift an unlimited number of times during the validity period of the special offer.
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