Volga-Dnepr Group has won the top prizes in two categories of the annual Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards, presented at a ceremony in Moscow attended by leading airline industry executives.

Volga-Dnepr Group received the award for the Best Business Project in Russian Civil Aviation in 2012, while Volga-Dnepr Airlines was named 'Airline of the Year - Cargo Carrier on Domestic and International Routes'. This is the seventh time the airline has been honoured with this award and, for 2012, saw it take the main prize ahead of six other nominees.

"It is a special honour for the Volga-Dnepr team to be recognized twice in these important Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards. 2012 was not an easy year for the airline industry and we have needed to apply maximum effort to retain our leading positions in the market," said Valery Gabriel, Vice President of Volga-Dnepr Group.

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has previously won this award category in Russia's prestigious annual aviation awards in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006 and 2007. With AirBridgeCargo Airlines ' the Group's scheduled cargo airline business ' also a four-time winner of the Airline of the Year award, Volga-Dnepr Group now holds 12 Wings of Russia titles, the highest public recognition by the Russian airline industry.