SS Chelyuskin
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SS Chelyuskin was a Soviet steamship, reinforced to navigate through polar ice, that in 1934 became ice-bound in Arctic waters during a navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vl
Chelyuskin
Chelyuskin, 1933, photo by Novitsky
From left to right: Joe Crosson (brother of Marvel Crosson), Mavriky Slepnyov, Georgy Ushakov, Sigizmund Levanevsky, radio operator of Ladd Army Airfield in Alaska during the expedition to rescue the crew of SS Chelyuskin.
Tupolev TB-1
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The Tupolev TB-1 was a Soviet bomber aircraft, an angular monoplane that served as the backbone of the Soviet bomber force for many years, and was the first large all-metal aircraft built in the Sovie
SS Chelyuskin
…survived), Vasily Molokov, Mavriky Slepnyov, Mikhail Vodopianov, Nikolai Kamanin and Ivan Doronin. Liapidevsky flew an ANT-4, the civilian version of the TB-1 heavy bomber, while Slepnev and Levanevsky flew a Consolidated Fleetster specially brought in from the US for the mission, and the other pilots flew…
ANT-4 at the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum
Strana Sovyetov during the flight from Moscow to New York, 1929