A review film about civil aviation in the USSR.
An airplane flies in the sky.
Chronicle of 1923: An airplane flies over the hippodrome, riders ride across the field.
An airplane over the city.
An airplane over the bay, sailing yachts on the water.
An airplane landing.
An airplane on the field, adults and children among the spectators.
The airplane begins its takeoff run.
People watch the takeoff.
An airplane comes in for a landing.
Airplanes on the field, the pilot climbs onto the wing.
Passengers boarding.
The first flight on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod route takes off.
Cartoon: reducing distances on a speed scale, the country's route grid.
An airplane landing at Domodedovo.
Drifting snow on the runway.
View of the airport building.
Snow and ice removal work.
Pilot D.I.Kukharenko with the crew.
Pages of documents on the Moscow-Khabarovsk route.
The crew undergoes pre-flight preparation.
Passengers boarding.
Luggage on the conveyor.
The engines are running.
An airplane flies past the airport building.
View of the control tower.
Dispatcher, recording equipment.
The plane is taxiing to the runway.
Dispatcher.
Tu-114 is taking off. D.I.Kukharenko at the controls.
Navigator.
Second pilot.
View from the nose of the cockpit.
On-board radio operator.
Instrument readings.
Autopilot in operation.
View of the clouds.
Fragment of an interview with D.I.Kukharenko.
Passenger cabin.
Chronicle of Tu-154 tests: Engine stops in flight (shot from the window).
Airplane in the sky.
Engines.
Airplane in the wind tunnel.
Operator turns on the equipment.
Starting the impellers.
Airplane engines are running.
Airplane in the air.
Passengers in the cabin.
The cook collects lunches on trays.
Flight attendant with a tray.
Passengers are having lunch.
Flight attendants pour tea.
Future flight attendants are taught table setting.
English lesson in the language lab.
Pilots in lessons.
Training on simulators in the gym.
Jumping on a trampoline.
Testing on a centrifuge.
1923
Moscow
Winter
Leningrad Higher Aviation School (now St.
Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation).
Pilots during aerodynamics classes.
Studying engine design.
Chassis mechanism.
Simulating a flight on a simulator under computer control.
Radar screen.
Cartoon: aircraft descent using radio signals.
Crew cabin.
View of the runway at night.
Airplane landing Airplane approaching the airport building.
Airplane inspection by technical team, preventive maintenance.
Airplanes in the hangar.
Il-62 leaving the hangar under tow.
Tu-134 takeoff.
Tu-104 landing.
Airplanes maneuvering on the parking lot.
Passengers descending the stairs.
People walking from the aircraft to the airport building.
Climbing the stairs.
People in the airport halls.
View of the airport building from the outside.
Sheremetyevo Airport, aircraft maneuvering.
Airport name, flags on the flagpole.
People in the gallery.
Passengers disembarking.
Baggage belt.
People unpacking suitcases.
People inside the airport.
A car leaving the airport.
Streets of Moscow.
Panorama of Red Square.
Spasskaya (Frolovskaya) and Senate Towers of the Moscow Kremlin.
Square in front of the city airport terminal.
Passengers in the airport terminal halls near various kiosks and shops, people looking at shop windows and making purchases.
Flower sellers.
Ceiling fan in the shape of an airplane.
People looking at an exhibition of passenger airplane models.
People in the waiting room.
Check-in for flights.
Telephone operators at work.
Recording equipment.
Computer operators.
General view of the airport terminal hall.
A bus leaving the station.
A helicopter taking off.
View of the city from a helicopter.
The bus driving along the streets.
Bus passengers.
View of the road from the driver's cabin.
A woman with a child at the window.
Road sign to the airport.
Airbuses on the airfield.
An airplane taking off.
Moscow Leningrad
Summer
Leningrad Airport.
Nevsky Prospect.
View of the Winter Palace from the water.
View of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Rostral Column near the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Monument to Peter the Great.
An airplane flies over the airfield.
Kiev Boryspil Airport.
People in the airport lounges.
Café visitors.
Passengers boarding transport to the airplane.
Those seeing them off wave from the gallery.
The bus departs from the building, with blooming tulips in the foreground.
An airplane taking off.
Airport in Sochi.
Passengers are taken to the airplane.
An airplane taking off.
View from the nose of the cockpit.
Flying over Kizhi Pogost in a helicopter.
Samarkand, view of Registan Square.
Sherdor Madrasah.
View of the snowy expanses of Yamal.
An airplane over the peninsula.
Men with puppies in their arms.
Sleeping people.
The pilot checks the course on the map.
Women with children.
An-2 landing.
An-12 cargo planes.
An-24 has landed.
Airplanes at the airport building.
Passengers disembarking.
The radar is working.
Airplane wing.
Takeoff during a snowfall.
Airplane shadow on the snow.
Airplane lands on the snow, chassis equipped with skis.
Members of the scientific expedition reinforce the shelter.
Sled dogs.
Unloading the helicopter.
Airplane takes off.
Polar explorers wave to the departing plane.
Airplanes at the Dushanbe airport.
Airport building.
Passengers disembarking.
Pilot M.M. Rybalko talks about the Dushanbe - Khorog route.
Alternation: aircraft above the mountains, passengers of the flight.
View of the mountains from the air.
Pilot at the controls.
Airplane above the mountains.
Landing in Khorog.
Yak-40 in the sky.
Yak-40 lands.
Airplane parked.
Tail section of the apparatus.
The commission inspects the aircraft, E.V. Loginov and A.S. Yakovlev participate.
Yak-40 on the runway.
The plane takes off, the landing gear is retracted.
Yak-40 in the air.
B-30 "air taxi".
B-30 on the field.
Passenger cabin.
Maneuvers on the field.
Takeoff and takeoff.
B-30 in the sky.
An-22 "Antey" in the clouds.
Landing of An-22. Unloading of the plane.
Construction and road equipment next to "Antey".
Loginov E.F. -- Air Marshal
1st Soviet Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR
Military Inspector-Adviser to the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Yakovlev A.S. -- Colonel General of Aviation
teacher
aircraft designer
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
Leningrad Moscow Kyiv Sochi Republic of Karelia Samarkand Salekhard Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Tajikistan
Summer
Loading sheep.
The plane takes off.
Sheep in the plane.
View of the mountains from the plane.
The pilot at the controls.
View from the cockpit.
The plane turns in the field.
Sheep jump out of the plane and run to the pasture.
Trucks drive up to the planes.
Boxes of fruit on the conveyor.
A bulldozer climbs into the cargo hold.
Loading pipes.
Single-engine planes on the snow, a cargo plane takes off.
View of the tundra from the cockpit.
Navigator.
Helicopters with cargo on the sling.
Panorama of the pipeline under construction.
A helicopter lands near the rig.
Work at the drilling rig.
Construction of the pipeline.
Panorama of the taiga, the shadow of a helicopter on the ground.
A cargo helicopter takes off.
Assembly structure.
Helicopters with cargo on the sling.
A helicopter with cargo on a suspended platform.
Helicopter landing.
The truck drives off the platform, the helicopter flies away.
Trucks drive inside the helicopter.
The cargo hold is closing.
A cargo helicopter is flying.
Aerial pollination of agricultural crops using K-26 helicopters.
A radio operator is sending a radiogram.
A medical helicopter is landing on a mountain pasture.
Equipment is being taken out of the helicopter.
Surgeons are performing an operation.
Doctors are examining a person.
Aerial view of a deployed medical center.
A pilot in the cockpit.
View of the taiga, smoke rising upward.
Forest fire.
Parachutists are landing in the forest.
Firefighters and equipment are lowered from the helicopter on cables.
Firefighting.
A helicopter above the forest.
Firefighters are unpacking cargo.
Connecting to a fire hydrant.
Firefighting from the air.
View of the sea.
Pilot at the controls.
Radio operator talking to fishermen.
Fishing vessels at sea.
People are pulling in nets.
The catch is unloaded onto the deck.
Photography.
Aerial photographs.
Cartoon work: construction of facilities.
Aerial photographs of glaciers and mineral deposits.
Photographs.
Fragment of an interview with E. F. Loginov.
Cartoon: an airplane flies across the sky, civil aviation routes in the country and in the world.
Cloud layer.
Loginov E.F. -- Air Marshal
1st Soviet Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR
Military Inspector-Adviser to the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
Tyumen region Magadan region Tajikistan
Summer Winter
The crew of Hero of Socialist Labor Vitkovsky in the Il-62 cockpit.
The plane in the sky.
Chronicle of 1937: The first nonstop transcontinental flight from the USSR to the USA. The ANT-25 plane in the air.
People greet the plane on the field.
An honorary meeting of the Soviet pilots. V.P. Chkalov, G.F. Baidukov, A.V. Belyakov accept congratulations.
A ceremonial procession along the street.
The Americans greet the Soviet crew.
Photojournalists shoot from the top of the ramp.
A cameraman with a TV camera.
People have gathered behind the fence.
The plane on the field.
Americans with the USSR flag.
The crew descends the ramp.
View from the plane of the airport building, there is a crowd on the roof.
Interview with the vice president of Pan American World Airways.
Dissolve into: articles in magazines and newspapers, the streets of New York.
A photograph in Life magazine.
American skyscrapers.
Traffic flow.
Pan American World Airways building.
Flags of foreign countries.
Sculpture by E.V. Vuchetich "Beat Swords into Ploughshares" in front of the UN building.
Foreign flags in front of the UN building.
A policeman regulates traffic in the center of Paris.
People walk past the Aeroflot building.
Streets of Paris.
Traffic flow near the Eiffel Tower.
View of the tower from below.
Air France's general representative for Eastern European relations gives an interview in front of the company's building.
A traffic controller signals an airplane.
An airplane with its engines running.
A loader takes away luggage.
Le Bourget airport building.
People in the airport lounges.
Flight schedule.
Passengers boarding.
A Soviet airplane maneuvers on the field.
The airplane takes off and takes off.
The airplane turns around at the Budapest airfield, it is snowing.
Airport building.
Passengers descend the steps and move onto the bus.
An excerpt from an interview with the CEO of the Hungarian airline Malev Hungarian Airlines.
Aeroflot building in Budapest.
City streets.
Freedom Monument.
Panorama of the city from the opposite bank.
View of the bridge over the Danube.
Panorama of Havana.
Palm trees grow along the road.
Streets of Havana, residents of the capital.
View of the airport control tower at dawn.
The plane is preparing for takeoff.
Tu-114 takeoff.
Cockpit.
View of the plane's wing from the window.
Night lights of Tokyo.
Shop window.
Streets of Tokyo during the day.
Aeroflot building.
An excerpt from an interview with the president of Japan Airlines.
View of the airport building, crews gathered on the airfield.
Passengers are boarding.
The plane is taxiing to the runway.
The Tu-154 is turning on the field.
Tu-154 takeoff.
The plane is in the air.
Cartoon: toy airplane models against the background of clouds.
Chkalov V.P. -- test pilot
Hero of the Soviet Union. Baidukov G.F. -- test pilot
Colonel General of Aviation
Hero of the Soviet Union. Belyakov A.V. -- navigator
Lieutenant General of Aviation
Hero of the Soviet Union
teacher at the N.E.Zhukovsky Air Force Academy
Head of the Military Department of MIPT.
1937
New York Paris Budapest Tokyo Havana
Summer Autumn