50 Years of the Soviet Air Force

Chronicle of the Civil War: Red pilots Shchekin and Korotkov at the wreckage of an English plane shot down near Tsaritsyn. Portraits of the first Soviet pilots and aviators. Filming of the first aviation detachments. Teachers of the Air Force Academy of the RKKA named after V.I. prof. NE Zhukovsky in the classroom with students. 1925 year. Soviet aviators during a flight to China and Japan. The year is 1929. Meeting of Soviet pilots at the New York airport. Testing of new fighters, bombers. In the cockpit of the aircraft pilots Evseev, VK Kokkinaki. 1930s. KE Voroshilov, Ya. I. Alksnis, SM Budyonny, GK Ordzhonikidze on exercises - maneuvers in Belarus. 1934 year. Polar pilots rescue the expedition of O. Yu. Schmidt. Moscow meets hero pilots and Chelyuskinites. Filming by A. V. Lyapidevsky, S. A. Levanevsky, V. S. Molokov, P. P. Kamanin, M. T. Slepnev, M. V. Vodopyanov, I. V. Doronin. 1937 year. The first expedition, led by I.D.Papanin, disembarks from aircraft in the Arctic. Meeting of the Soviet crew: V. P. Chkalov, A. V. Belyakov and G. F. Baidukov in America. Chronicle of the Second World War: air battles, bombing of Soviet cities, portraits of pilots who made the first rams. Combat missions including military operations in the Far East. Pilots at their planes, in the cockpit, testing new machines, in moments of rest. MI Kalinin presents awards to pilots in the Kremlin, among those awarded A. Pokryshkin. Victory Parade in Moscow. Soviet aircraft designers at work in design bureaus, during tests among them: S. V. Ilyushin, A. N. Tupolev, A. I. Mikoyan, S. A. Lavochkin, A. S. Yakovlev. A group of pilots - Heroes of the Soviet Union at the airfield, among them: twice Heroes of the Soviet Union A.I. Efimov, M.P. Odintsov, P.A.Taran, Olelyukhin. Pilots in peacetime are testing new aircraft, including fighters, bombers, supersonic, rocket-powered aircraft. Pilots G. Titov and Y. Gagarin at the Cosmonaut Training Center during training. April 12, 1961 the launch of the spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin. Cosmonaut A. Leonov in open space. Graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy. prof. N.E. Zhukovsky. Among those present: Marshal of the Soviet Union A. A. Grechko, Marshal of Aviation K. A. Vershinin, Admiral of the Fleet S. G. Gorshkov, A. A. Grechko presents gold medals to excellent students. Aviation Marshal A. Krasovsky presents diplomas to graduates of the Academy. Meeting of the Military Council of the Air Force under the leadership of Air Marshal KA Vershinin. 1967 year. Dnepr exercises. All types of troops are involved, including aviation. Air parade at the Domodedovo airfield on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. In the air, the planes perform aerobatics. Demonstration of new aircraft.

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