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1954
1954 - 2114.PDF
LIGHT, 23 July 1954 119 USSIA'S AIRLINE SYSTEM ~n Official Description : Extracts from the 1954 Aeroflot Year Book FEW weeks ago, in response to an official request made earlier this year, we received from Russia an interest ing document concerned with many aspects of aviation the U.S.S.R. It is in the nature of a calendar and year book, ted 1954, and has apparently been prepared mainly for ternal consumption and for the staff and passengers of eroflot, to which company we are indebted for the book. The extracts which we quote below are those referring ' dy to the work of Aeroflot. Although the informa- i is not detailed—there are, in keeping with usual oviet policy, no traffic statistics—it represents the most ensive official report on Aeroflot so far published in this untry. Extracts from the year book are quoted below under eir respective chapter headings: — The Civil Air Fleet of the U.S.S.R. is the creation of the Soviet Government. The Communist Party, the Soviet Govern ment, our inspired teacher Lenin, and the great Stalin who con tinued Lenin's work, foresaw the tremendous part that would be layed by aviation in the development of the national economy, d gave much consideration to civil aviation. In 1923, when e Soviet people were reconstructing industry and agriculture fter the liquidation of foreign military intervention and the end f the civil war, the Communist Party began the organization of the Civil Air Fleet, which was a new branch of the national economy. Conveyance of passengers and freight by air in the "LS.S.R. was started in 1921, but not in the form of regular air services. On February 9th, 1923, the Council of Labour and Defence passed a resolution on the creation of a civil air fleet. In the summer of the same year the first air service in the Soviet Union was inaugurated between Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod. The cover of Aeroflot's year book shows an 11-12, standard Soviet transport, flying over the terminal building at Moscow Airport. Since its creation the Civil Air Fleet has become a power ful branch of die national economy, capable of carrying out large and important politi cal and economic tasks. A dense and branching network of air services has covered the country and fast transport air craft fly back and forth daily along these routes carrying over great distances passengers, mail and freight for the urgent requirements of national economy. ... At die moment the Soviet Union occupies first place in the world as regards the length of its internal air routes, leaving the United States of America far behind. Moscow, the capital, is linked by regular air services wiui die centres of all the union and autonomous republics, with regional and district towns and wiui many foreign capitals. Along the air routes of the Soviet Union tens of thousands of passengers and hundreds of tons of airmail and freight are carried daily. A dense network of local air routes covers each republic, district and region. Along these routes fly light aircraft which carry passengers, newspapers and airmail to the regional centres, to The extent of Aeroflot's route network, claimed to be the largest in the world, is shown by this official map.
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