Great Flight

Flight "Moscow - Ulan Bator - Beijing", organized by Aviakhim (by airplanes: AK-1 "Latvian shooter", Ju-13 "Pravda", Ju-13 "Krasny Kamvolshchik", postal: "R-2", "R- 1 "," R-1 "), by crews consisting of: I. K. Polyakov, A. I. Tomashevsky, A. N. Ekatov, M. M. Gromov, M. A. Volkovoynova, N. I. Naydenov, V. P. Kuznetsova, T. V. Rodzevich, F. N. Malikova, N. A. Komysheva, I. V. Mikheeva, V. V. Osipova. Head of the expedition I.P.Schmidt. Seeing aircraft at the Central Airport in Moscow. A. I. Rykov's speech. Press, cameramen. Aircraft during takeoff, landing, in the air, at the airfields of Kazan, Sarapul, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Miotan, Beijing, Shanghai, Canton (China). Loading and unloading aircraft. Flight participants at work along the route. Airplane meetings. Types of cities, terrain, rivers, including the Yenisei, Lake Baikal, the Gobi Desert (captured from an airplane); Soviet and Mongolian border posts. Ulan Bator: Choy-Balsan, Tseren-Dorgzhi. Reception of members of the expedition. Party school. Gangen monastery. Street trade. Burial ground in the steppe: dogs are eating a corpse. Gobi Desert; landscapes camel caravan, nomads. The population of Mongolia is of different sex, age, social strata. China. Miotan: solemn meeting. Beijing: plenipotentiary of the USSR in Beijing L. M. Karakhan; presentation of awards by the government of China to members of the expedition. Banquet. Foreign Minister - Shin-Yu-Min; President - Duan-Dui-Juya; Summer Palace. Great Palace of Empresses. Marble ship. Foreign quarter: buildings of the British, American embassies, the movement of automobiles, horse-drawn transport; rickshaws; coolies; pedestrians. The commercial part of the city. Walls of old Beijing. "Chinese Beijing": the dwellings of the poor. Lake. Country villas. Shanghai: port. R. Huanghu. Embankment. Shipyard. Dzhonki, schooners, foreign, military ships. European part of the city: traffic, pedestrians, shops; coolies; artisans in the streets; peasants in the field. A strike at one of the British factories. The police arrest V. Shneiderov, checks one of the planes. Canton (Guangzhou): b. Zhujiang. Port. Movement of ships. Movement of ships. Transport, pedestrian traffic. Funeral procession. The commercial part of the city. Consular quarter on about. Shamin. Peasants in the rice fields. Canton Civil War: strike, demonstration, rally, strike, strikebreaker trial, People's Army fighting; Flora, fauna, landscapes of Chinese cities and environs. Everyday life, occupations of the population of the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Canton of different nationalities, ages, social groups.

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1925