The first passenger flight of the TU-144 aircraft

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Alma-Ata. December 26, 1975. The commander of the TU-144 crew, test pilot Ivan Korneevich Vedernikov (right in the background) during an interview with journalists at the welcoming ceremony at the city airport of the Soviet supersonic passenger aircraft TU-144 of the Aeroflot company, which carried out its first working flight on the Moscow-Alma-Ata route. Boris Korzin/TASS