Russian flag carrier Aeroflot will buy long-range airliners from Boeing and Airbus, chief executive Valery Okulov said Wednesday.

Aeroflot would buy 22 Boeings in the years 2010-2012 and 22 Airbuses from 2012 to 2016, Okulov said at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.

State-controlled Aeroflot had already closed tender talks with Boeing to buy Boeing 787 Dreamliners, he said, while negotiations on buying a further batch of Airbus A350 XWB aircraft still had further to go.

Alexander Lebedev, who controls 30 percent of Aeroflot through his National Reserve Corporation, said he had reserved Boeing aircraft on behalf of Aeroflot to avert the collapse of a US$3 billion (HK$23.4 billion) purchase.