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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 0044.PDF
44 FLIGHT TROZAVODSK LENINGRAD DZHUSALY . « CHAHBUY / STALINAEIASHKHABAD ~-_~^,4 L. u AEROFLCfT (Civil Air Administration of the U.S.S.R) AEROFLOT Routes reported as flown by TupotevTu-104 AEROFLOT FYojected Service MINHAIDUY(Civil Air Administration of China) UKAMPS(Civil Air Administration of Korea [North] ) Routes connecting with above services AEROFLOT AND MINHAIDUY . . . The map shows that there are numerous cross-country linesin the western area of Russia Unking important cities in the south-west with the main points in Siberia, and there is asouthern trunk route from die Black Sea via die Caspian to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. It is not possible to give an accurateidea of die traffic over diese lines, since recent schedules are avail- able only for a limited number of the Aeroflot domestic routes.Moreover, the route-map itself probably gives an incomplete picture of die extent of die Russian network, although it has been prepared from a recent map issued by Aeroflot and brought up-to-date in accordance with the latest schedules. Fairly complete timetables of six or seven years ago include many intermediatepoints not shown on die map and a number of odier local services radiating from important centres. Apart from the routes mentioned as operated by Tupolev twin-jet airliners, the majority of the Aeroflot services are currently flown by Ilyushin 11-12 aircraft—now being replaced on manyroutes widi the slightly larger and faster Ilyushin Il-14s—and by Lissunov Li-2s, the latter being the Russian-built Dakota (alicence was granted during the war). It is believed that certain
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