diff --git a/elasticsearch/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
index cc8f3119..6c609613 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ from elasticsearch.connection_pool import ConnectionPool, ConnectionSelector, \
     RoundRobinSelector
 from elasticsearch.serializer import JSONSerializer
 from elasticsearch.connection import Connection, RequestsHttpConnection, \
-    Urllib3HttpConnection, MemcachedConnection
+    Urllib3HttpConnection, MemcachedConnection, ThriftConnection
 from elasticsearch.exceptions import *