The Archive · 1939

To Soviet Flyers

For Successful Flight

Moscow, June 12.

The Soviet flyers M. Kokkinaki andum. Gordianko have been awarded the Order of Lenin and medals ior "courage," for their flight from Moscow to North America in April.

They will also be given prizes of 20000 roubles each.

The Russian airmen had taken off from Moscow on April 28, for a non-stop flight to America, via Ice-iand and Greenland, and had made a forced landing to the south of Hudson Bay.—Reuter.

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