On April 24, 2009, Flight SL 2037 opened on the route Novosibirsk - Abakan – Kyzyl, which will fly twice a week.

As announced by “FederalPress” in the press service Interregional association “Siberian Agreement”, such an extraordinary event as establishing a new air route in the period of economic crisis was necessitated because over the past few months, practically no interregional flights to Tuva remained active.
“Airplane An-24 will go from Novosibirsk to Abakan and Kyzyl on Mondays and Fridays”, announced “FederalPress”. “The return flights will be on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The cost from Novosibirsk to Kyzyl will be 6,400 rubles; the partial route, Novosibirsk to Abakan will be 4,900 rubles, and Abakan to Kyzyl 2,500 rubles.”

Evraz Group said Monday that it had renounced the right to purchase the license to develop the Mezhegeiskoye coal deposit, which it won in a hotly contested auction last year, because of weakening market conditions. Evraz unit Yuzhkuzbassugol had offered 16.9 billion rubles ($510 million) to win the right to the license in July, beating out competitors including Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element for the deposit in the Tuva region.

Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element (BasEl) and Lunsin, a subsidiary of China's Sinopec and member of the Zijing mining group, have agreed on the joint construction of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant which will be fuelled by coal mined at the Kaa-Khem strip mine in the Russian internal republic of Tuva, the Kommersant newspaper reported.

Evraz Group, the Russian steel maker part-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, plans to invest $1.5 billion bringing the Mezhegei coal field in Siberia into production after winning it at auction on Thursday.

OPK Mining, a Russian coking coal producer, plans to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering next year to develop its mines in Siberia. A stake of at least 25 percent may be sold in Hong Kong or London, Dmitry Sakhno, chief executive officer of OPK's Eniseiskaya Industrial Co. unit, said today in an interview at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia. OPK is also considering selling the stake to a single investor, he said.

A fair of products made in Russian Republics of Khakassia and Tuva has opened in Ulaangom soum, Uvs aimag.

In the action an active part took 16 enterprisers and 90 businessmen. They showed their products and established contracts with the province's several organizations on supplying products and materials. It was done in accordance with the agreement concluded between the governments of the Republics and administration of the aimag.