The Archive · 1937

Search for Missing Soviet Airmen

Moscow, Sept. 11.

It is announced here that the aeroplane "N 207" commanded by M. Graziansky, which is participating in the search for the missing transpolar fliers, is detained by a severe storm on the Schmidt peninsula in the eastern Arctic.

The airmen Golovine and Slipnev on board the "N 206" are similarly detained in the Bay of Teksi" also in the eastern Arctic, which they only succeeded in reaching with great difficulty and where they are awaiting more favourable weather conditions—Trans-Ocean.

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