Putin thanked the pilots of fire fighting aircrafts, and "Country of tourism" held the excursion.

Pilots of fire fighting aircrafts played a great role in fire extinguising in Russia. Their work was so important at that time and Putin himself made a flight in the team of pilots and put out the fires in BE-200.

A lot of countries offered their help for Russia to fight with the fires. Pilots from the Ukraine, Belarus, France, Turkey and Azerbaijan were working together with russian pilots.

"I want to point out that we are glad that we hadn`t to ask for any help and support. Almost all our partners responded at once and expressed solidarity with Russia "- Vladimir Putin said. He also said that every from 230 flights, which had been made those days, might be compared with combat missions according to danger.

After good work, when most of the fires were stopped, the Ministry for Emergency Situations of Russia organized solemn reception of air heroes in Moscow.
After lunch at the restaurant our company as a leading tour operator of air-space tourism arranged the excursion for the pilots. It was a classical sightseeing tour of Moscow, but accompanied by police. And of course our guides paid much attention to M. Rust`s landing on the Red Square.

The next day, Vladimir Putin welcomed the pilots at the airport Ramenskoye. He thanked them for their work. 19 of the pilots got watch Aviator as a present from Vladimir Putin.