OREANDA-NEWS. March 21, 2012. Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin signed an order awarding the General Director of JSC "Airport Tolmachevo" Alexander Borodin with the award "Honored transport worker of Russia"  for labor achievements and years of diligent work in the civil aviation system.

Alexander Borodin became the General Director of JSC "Airport Tolmachevo" in 2009. Under his leadership the second runway certified with ICAO Category 2 was put into operation and that made the Tolmachevo airport almost all-weather. All operational and financial performance of the Novosibirsk airport (Tolmachevo) have significantly increased. For example, in 2011 net profit of the airport increased more than twice compared with 2010 and amounted 400 million rubles.

Last year passenger traffic of the Tolmachevo airport has overcame the "peak" rate of 2 million 650 thousand passengers, which took place in 1991. This year the airport transferred 2 million 765 thousand passengers, that is 22, 3% more than in 2010. Such dynamics of passenger traffic is 70% higher than the all-Russian industry performance. The results of two months of this year compared to the same period of last year was the growth of passenger traffic by 33%. The geografy of flights from the Novosibirsk Airport (Tolmachevo) is expanding constantlyc. Nowadays flights are operated to over than 80 cities. The largest international freight forwarders began to fly to the Tolmachevo airport.

Under the leadership of Alexander Borodin Tolmachevo Airport became the owner of the National Public Prize of Russian transport industry "Golden Chariot" in nomination "The best airport in Russia," aviation awards in the category "For outstanding achievements in providing flight safety" of the Flight Safety Foundation and was awarded with the  "Certificate of trust to the employer" from the Non-profit Partnership "Safety" and several other prizes and awards.

Previously, Alexander Borodin has been awarded with the award pin "Excellent air transport", gratitude of the Minister of Transport and the diploma of the Ministry of Transport.