Development of domestic and foreign aviation (1903-1937)

The Wright brothers' biplane being transported to the launch site in Kittyhawk on December 17, 1903. The engines are started.

Wilbur Wright takes the controls.

The biplane takes off from a monorail.

The Wright brothers near the plane after their flight.

French pilot Henri Farman prepares for a flight with two passengers in May 1908. Farman's plane takes off.

The plane lands.

The pilot gets out of the cockpit and accepts congratulations from a lady.

A female aviator prepares for a flight in 1909, checking the thrusters.

The pilot and passenger take their seats, and a mechanic starts the engine.

The plane flies over a field during a demonstration flight.

Blériot's monoplane is rolled out of a hangar in the summer of 1909. Blériot in the cockpit before takeoff.

A flying steerable balloon with an engine and a pusher propeller.

The closed gates of a house in Kaluga in the early 20th century.

A padlock on the gate.

An empty shopping arcade.

Tsiolkovsky's house in Kaluga.

Tsiolkovsky's drawings and plans. K.E. Tsiolkovsky's face (still frame).

A man in outer space.

One of the inventors attempts a running takeoff from a rock using planes and a tail attached to his back.

The face of K.E. Tsiolkovsky (still frames from a 1935 newsreel).

A brass band on the platform of a train passing a station in 1919-1920. Children watch the passing train, a bundle of newspapers is thrown from the carriage.

Children run after the train along the tracks, leaflets are thrown from the carriage.

A brass band on the platform.

Scenes from Lunacharsky's mystery plays, staged in Petrograd in 1920. The ascent of a hot air balloon from Red Square on July 19, 1920, during the celebrations in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern.

A view of a part of the Spasskaya Tower.

People on Red Square watch the flight of the hot air balloon, their heads thrown back.

The face of A.V. Lunacharsky.

Model tractors in demonstrative columns on Red Square in the first half of the 1920s.

A model locomotive in a demonstrative column, a view of a passing column.

The movement of demonstrative columns, a model airplane above one of the columns.

A model of an airplane on a Moscow street (above).

A military brass band plays.

The face of the conductor.

A speaker addresses a rally.

Faces of rally participants.

The legs and faces of marching actors from the Blue Blouse Theater, dressed in pilot suits.

Actors on stage portray the figure "Airplane." V.V. Mayakovsky reads poetry from the stage.

An airplane mechanic ties the straps of a passenger's helmet.

A pilot in the cockpit before takeoff.

An airplane taking off at Khodynka Field in 1923-1924. Faces of participants in the aviation festival at Khodynka Field.

Young Pioneers salute.

Members of a modeling club, holding airplane models, walk to a competition.

Young military pilots chat with each other during an aviation festival in 1923-1924. Airplanes lined up at Khodynka Airfield.

TsAGI employees with a banner.

Head of TsAGI S.A. Chaplygin at the aviation festival.

The R-1 aircraft piloted by M.M. Gromov in the air during the Moscow-Beijing-Tokyo flight in 1925. Gromov's aircraft being met at the Tokyo airfield on July 13, 1925. Gromov next to the aircraft.

An aircraft taking off.

People run to greet the aircraft of the American pilot Lindbergh, which landed at Le Bourget on May 21, 1927, after a transatlantic flight.

Lindbergh looks out of the cockpit window, accepting congratulations.

Lindbergh's ceremonial welcome in the USA. Ordzhonikidze G.K. gives a speech.

Chkalov's ANT-25 aircraft takes off on July 20, 1936, flying along the "Stalin route" Moscow-Udd Island.

The ANT-25 aircraft in flight.

The face of aircraft designer A.N. Tupolev.

Tupolev in a hangar among engineers and pilots.

A greeting ceremony for Chkalov's plane, which landed in Vancouver on June 20, 1937. Chkalov, Belyakov, and Baidukov near the plane.

Americans greet the Soviet pilots.

Chkalov, Baidukov, and Belyakov on a New York street.

Chkalov, holding a bouquet of flowers, delivers a speech.

A greeting ceremony for pilots Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin in San Francisco after their flight in July 1937. The faces of the Soviet pilots.