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Aeroflot is the national airline of Russia. In the Cold War days it used to be the national airline of the Soviet Union. Aeroflot is headquartered in Moscow, Russia and presently flies to 87 destinations across 47 countries in the world. These include 36 destinations in Europe, 5 destinations in the USA, Canada and Cuba, 2 destinations in Africa, 4 destinations in the Middle East, 10 destinations in Asia, 8 destinations in the CIS-countries and 24 destinations in Russia. In India, Aeroflot flies to Delhi and Mumbai.
In 1920s, after the end of World War I, European countries increasingly used aviation for peaceful purposes. Russia too operated re-equipped warplanes for peaceful aviation purposes. On May 1, 1922, flights on the first international route, Moscow-Koenigsberg (Germany at that time), were launched. July 15, 1923, marked the introduction of the first regular domestic route between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. On February 25, 1932, the Central Administration of Civil Air Fleet was founded and an official abbreviation of the country's civil aviation was adopted - "Aeroflot". In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "Aeroflot - Soviet Airlines" was transformed into the open stock company "Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines".
Aeroflot fleet consists of modern aircrafts like Airbus A319-100, Airbus A320-200, Airbus A321-200, Boeing 767-300ER, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, Ilyushin Il-86, Ilyushin Il-96-300, Tupolev Tu-134A, Tupolev Tu-134B, Tupolev Tu-154M, and Yakovlev Yak-40.