Vasily Molokov
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Vasily Sergeyevich Molokov was a Soviet aircraft pilot, major general of aviation, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Vasily Molokov
USSR postmark, 1935.
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
Vasily Molokov
…in Siberia and Far East of Russia. In April 1934 he took part in the successful Arctic aerial rescue operation saving people from the sunken steamship Cheliuskin from an improvised airfield on the ice of the Chukchi Sea. Vasily Molokov saved 39 men - more than any other pilot. His two-seat R-5 took on board 6…
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.