The government order for 12 new-generation Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainers for the Russian Air Force was fulfilled this summer, when the last three aircraft of the batch built by the Sokol aircraft plant in Nizhny Novgorod flew from the factory airfield to the Air Force Training Centre in Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Region. The first five Yak-130s (serials 21 through 25) arrived in Borisoglebsk on 6 April 2011. Two more aircraft (90 and 91) came in from Lipetsk in mid-June. Along with two other planes (92 and 93), they had been delivered to the RusAF State Aviation Personnel Training and Operational Evaluation Centre during February through April last year.

The final three Yak-130s under the first contract signed with the Russian Defence Ministry were assembled by Sokol this spring. With their factory acceptance tests completed the planes issued serials 26 through 28 were ferried to Borisoglebsk on 30 June.

Borisoglebsk is home to the training air regiment giving basic and advanced flight training to future pilots of attack and bomber aircraft Ц the cadets of the Krasnodar flight school.. The instructor-pilots of the Borisoglebsk training centre have mastered Yak-130s, and the first cadets are to begin their training on them in the near future.

On 8 November 2011, during his visit to Irkutsk Aviation Plant (subsidiary of the Irkut Corp.) Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Alexander Zelin announced that a new order for 65 more Yak-130s for RusAF will be signed soon. Irkut will become the main supplier under this contract and all other Yak-130 combat trainers to be ordered both by Russian and foreign customers.