History of Aviation (1903-1975)

Aircraft of various makes in the air; flights over Red Square. I. Stalin, A. Mikoyan and L. Kaganovich on the Mausoleum tribune.

The first German autogyros (helicopters).

Helicopters taking off.

Helicopters flying by.

A pilot in the helicopter cockpit.

The autogyro is rolling across a field, people near the autogyro.

The autogyro takes off.

The aircraft is in the air.

The autogyro lands.

1930s: Pilots at the airfield.

Planes form a five-pointed star in the sky.

Cadets of the N.E. Zhukovsky Academy during classes.

Cadets study the structure of an airplane.

A line of cadets in the academy hall.

A military commander speaks, cadets listen.

The "Forward and Higher" newspaper from June 21, 1941. 1940s: A workshop of a defense plant.

Planes at the airfield.

The barrels of the guns rise.

A line of German soldiers.

Cartoon: German tanks move across the territory of the USSR. Germans drive by in tanks.

Soviet pilots near an airplane: preparing for the flight.

The airplane takes off.

The airplane lands.

A tank drives by (shot from inside the tank), soldiers run, a railway bridge explodes. 1920s: The "Dobrolet" airplane. 1930s: Designer Tupolev in a hangar.

Tupolev smiles.

The Maxim Gorky airplane in the sky, flying over Red Square. O. Schmidt is smiling.

The airplane lands at the North Pole.

Schmidt and other expedition members exit the airplane.

The USSR flag at the North Pole.

The Tu airplane lands at the airfield.

The ANT-25 airplane in the sky.

Chkalov, Baidukov, and Belyakov are standing at the airfield in America.

Soviet pilots are on the street of an American city; driving by in a car.

The 1950s: Tupolev in the design bureau.

They are writing the inscription "Tu" on the airplane.

The Tu jet airplane.

Tupolev is sitting.

Airplanes at the airfield and in the air.

The beginning of the 20th century: testing of the first helicopter (helicopter). 1928: the first helicopters. 1932: Cheremukhin's flight on a helicopter.

The Omega helicopter designed by Bratukhin in the air.

A crashed helicopter on the ground.

M. Popovich at the airfield.

The Antey airplane (AN-22) at the airfield.

Popovich in the airplane cockpit.

Takeoff, flight, landing of the Antey airplane. M. Popovich at the airfield, inspecting the airplane. M. Popovich at the airfield surrounded by pilots.

Airplanes in the sky.

A female pilot at the controls of an airplane.

Airplanes performing aerobatics.

Spectators at an air parade.

A pilot in the cockpit.

An airplane performing aerobatics in the sky.

Boys watching the flights.

Airplanes flying (shot from an airplane). 1930s: Female pilots standing.

A female pilot boarding an airplane. 1941-1945: A pilot firing from an airplane.

Houses are burning, a fire in a village.

Germans in a village.

A woman in a burning village.

Corpses of soldiers.

An airplane flies over Red Square.

Photo - V.I. Lenin on Red Square.

Airplanes on the airfield.

Pilots at the airplane cockpit.

Airplanes "Sibirsky Komsomolets", "Kommunar", "Krasnaya Presnya", "Krasny Artelshchik", "Selskosoyuz".

Airplane "Sibirsky Stroitel" in the air.

Collection of contributions for the construction of airplanes.

Earth from the airplane.

Poster "Air service "Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod".

Airplane "Pravda" on the airfield; passengers board the plane; the plane takes off.

Airship in the air.

Construction of the airship "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the TsAGI workshops.

Assembly of the airship shell in the balloon shop of the Kauchuk plant.

Assembly of the airship "Komsomolskaya Pravda" at the Dolgoprudny station in a large hangar.

Testing of the airship.

Airplane in the air. S. Ordzhonikidze at the air parade.

Airplanes on the airfield.

Pilots near the planes.

Testing of the prototype aircraft.

Pilots V. Molokov, M. Vodopyanov, S. Levanevsky, N. Kamanin, I. Doronin and V. Lebedev near the planes (close-ups).

Photos of airplanes produced by the Dux plant.

Demonstration flights of the airplane.

Aviators sit in the airplane cockpit.

Assembly of the IL-2 aircraft.

Photo of Ilyushin S.V. near the aircraft.

Test flight of the single-seat attack aircraft IL-2 (pilot V. Kokkinaki).

S. Ilyushin with the design bureau employees over the drawings.

A hand draws an airplane.

Ilyushin.

Drawing of an attack aircraft.

Pilot V. Kokkinaki boards the DB-3 bomber (TsKB-30), performs a Nesterov loop.

Kokkinaki accepts congratulations on the ground.

1930s: Paratroopers on the wing of an airplane.

Paratroopers jump from the wing of an airplane.

Planes in the sky, paratroopers jump out. K.E. Voroshilov during exercises.

The plane taxis.

A tank drives by and fires (shot from a tank).

Cavalry gallops during exercises.

A squadron of planes flies by, paratroopers sit on the planes from above. I.V. Stalin looks on.

A hand draws on paper with a compass.

Military personnel in Ivanov's design bureau.

Planes at the airfield.

Pilots are standing.

12.1903: The Wright brothers fly a flying machine. 1909: The First International Aeronautics Exhibition in Paris: planes in the air. 1914-1918: Russian soldiers near planes, a plane takes off.

Horsemen galloping, planes flying above them.

Two planes in the air.

Explosion on the ground.

Pilots sitting. 1920s: People standing with the letters: TsAGI. The building of the institute.

Employees of the institute climbing the stairs. S.V. Ilyushin talking with employees.

Photo of Ilyushin.

A glider in the air.

Photo of Ilyushin.

The glider "Moscow" being launched. 1925: Gliding competitions in Germany, gliders being launched, including the glider "Moscow" (designed by S.Ilyushin).

Observers at the competition.

Photo of S.I. Ilyushin.

The design bureau room, employees in white coats working.

New aircraft at the aircraft plant.

Aircraft designer A.S. Yakovlev walking through the design bureau shop.

New aircraft in the plant shop.

Aircraft at the airfield.

Yak aircraft in the air.

Aircraft mock-up testing.

Aircraft assembly in the plant shop.

Tupolev A.N. Il-2 assembly in the hangar.

Il-2 aircraft at the plant.

Aircraft model testing at the plant.

Employees at the drawing. S. Ilyushin in his office with employees.

Aircraft designer A. Mikoyan and M. Gurevich walking through the design bureau. N.N. Polikarpov sitting.

Aircraft being rolled along the hangar. 1970s: Yakovlev at the Yak-42 aircraft. 1941-1945: Yak-1 flying.

Yak aircraft assembly at the aircraft plant.

Yak fighters at the plant, at the airfield.

Defense plant, poster: The front needs it - we'll do it!

12.1903: The Wright brothers' flight.

The plane in the sky. 1905: The Wright brothers' flight, observers watch.

The plane is taken out of the hangar.

The Wright brothers with the plane.

1930s: A squadron of airplanes flies by.

Paratroopers on the wing of an airplane.

Paratroopers jump from the wing of an airplane.

Planes in the sky, paratroopers jump out.

Pilots in the cockpits of airplanes.

A squadron of airplanes in the air.

A girl jumps with a parachute in a park. 1940s: S.V. Ilyushin interviewing.

Designers near an airplane in a hangar. S.A. Lavochkin interviewing.

Tupolev A.N. - photo.

1920s: Airplane designed by A.S. Yakovlev in a field.

Yakovlev at the plane.

1920s: The Dobrolet airplane at the airfield. 1925: The pilots say goodbye before the flight from Moscow to Beijing.

Pilots in the airplane cockpit.

People at the airfield seeing the pilots off.

An airplane in the sky. 1920s: Airplane parts being manufactured at a plant.

TsAGI - photo.

An airplane in flight.

Airplane assembly. 1990s: The Ilya Muromets airplane in a hangar. 1914-1918: A warship at sea. I. Sikorsky - photo. 1980s: An airplane of the Sikorsky company in the sky. 1930s: A city in the USA: skyscrapers, people on the street.

The building where the Sikorsky Corporation is located in the USA (Stratford).

1970s: Airplane in the sky.

Pilot V.S. Ilyushin in the cockpit. 1950s: A group of pilots is standing. 1940s: Classes at a flight school.

A girl is listening. 1930s: Airplane on a field.

A pilot boards the plane.

Airplane in the sky.

Red Square (empty).

The Kremlin embankment at dawn.

A balloon over Moscow.

A formation of OSOAVIAKHIM members. 1950s: Classes at the Air Force Academy.

A pilot with an instructor near a jet plane.

The pilot boards the plane, the plane takes off.

The pilots watch the flight of a jet plane.

Classes at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.

Academy cadets near the plane.

Employees in the design bureau at their drawing boards. 1930s: Pilot V. Kokkinaki puts on a flight suit, gets into the plane, after the flight. 1970s: Kokkinaki is driving a car, driving through Moscow.

An IL is taxiing.

Kokkinaki is in the cockpit.

An IL is in the sky. V.K. Kokkinaki and aircraft designer S.V. Ilyushin are sitting at the table.

Pilots with a cinematographic apparatus in the cockpit of an airplane.

Pilots at an airplane.