A new in-flight magazine for children, Aeroflot. The Young Traveller, will feature two animal characters, a tiger pilot named Amur and Leia, a leopardess air hostess. The names have been chosen through an online vote involving over 3,000 users. The magazine’s first issue will be available in December 2016.

The publication is sponsored by the Amur Tiger Centre and the Far Eastern Leopards autonomous non-profit organisation. The project is aimed at attracting attention to the need to preserve the populations of rare animals in the Russian Far East.

This is not the first Aeroflot cooperation project involving the Amur Tiger Centre. An Airbus A319 of the Aurora Company (an Aeroflot subsidiary) with the centre’s logo on its fuselage has been performing regular flights on the Magadan-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok route since August 2014.