KD Avia: Connecting Russia to Europe
Following the breakup of the USSR various Aeroflot directorates gained their independence and spawned a wide variety of successor airlines, […]
Following the breakup of the USSR various Aeroflot directorates gained their independence and spawned a wide variety of successor airlines, […]
The myriad of new airlines formed in the twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union was amazing, but
The Tupolev 144 (NATO codename ‘Charger’) is a magnificent looking airliner that pushed Soviet technology to the brink and beyond
Perm is a city of just over 1 million people in central Russia. Long a crossroads and the gateway to
The Il-62 (NATO codename ‘Classic’), in 1967, finally gave the Soviet Union a long-haul jet airliner, albeit one comparable to
The Ilyushin IL-86 ‘Camber’ encapsulates a big chunk of what was wrong with the Soviet Union, but also some of
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The 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union produced a dazzling array of new airlines, many of which
During the mid-late 1990s there was a wide variety of rather obscure airlines being formed within Russia following the collapse