Telegrams today from Moscow speak of the rapturous welcome given to Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhael Gordienko, the airmen. who flew nonstop. from Canada to Russia, approximately 4000 miles in 23 hr. 40 min.
Their machine was one of the Moskva type, which is one of the Red Army bombers. Besides Marshal Budienny, commander of the Moscow garrison, and other official big wigs, the two aviators were greeted at the railway station, by Gromoff. Yuma-shelf and Beliakoff, who in 1937 scored the then long-distance record of the world with their flight from Moscow to California The "Daily Tetesraph's" Moscow correspondent quotes from an article by Kokkinaki in the "Pravda" in which he emphasizes the importance of long-distance flights for Russia and says that there is no capital in Europe which a Moskva bomber could not reach and return to Russia.
He also says that he still had a ton of petrol in his tanks when he landed on Miscou Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
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