"The helicopter accumulated 333 hours of flight in its two-year flight career, and was evaluated by the US Navy, with demonstrations also flown for the US Army. While effective in its designed role, the helicopter proved to be underpowered. Sikorsky was already working on an enlarged, turboshaft-powered successor, the Model S-64, which was ordered into production for the US Army as the Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe. Igor Sikorsky was fully involved in the development of the prototype S-60, from the initial design through flight testing. It was one of the last aircraft to have this distinction. The prototype crashed in April"
"designed the first heavy bomber for Russia. In 2013, ""Flying"" magazine ranked Sikorsky number 12 on its list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation. On March 22, 2018 the Kiev city council officially renamed Kiev airport ""International Airport ""Kyiv"" (Zhulyany) named after Igor Sikorsky"". Sikorsky was a deeply religious Russian Orthodox Christian and authored two religious and philosophical books (""The Message of the Lord's Prayer"" and ""The Invisible Encounter""). Summarizing his beliefs, in the latter he wrote: Igor Sikorsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (, ""Ígor' Ivánovič Sikórskij""; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both"
"Igor Sikorsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (, ""Ígor' Ivánovič Sikórskij""; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition as well as F.A.I. license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won for its young designer, builder and pilot first prize in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. After immigrating to the"
"to test it. Abakovsky was also on board. Although they successfully arrived in Tula, on the return route to Moscow the Aerowagon derailed at high speed, killing 6 of the 22 on board. The following people died in the accident: All six were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Alexey Abramov / Алексей Абрамов, By the Kremlin Wall / У кремлёвской стены, Moscow / Москва́, Politizdat / Политиздат, 1978, pp./стр. 399 Valerian Abakovsky Valerian Ivanovich Abakovsky (, Latvian: ""Valerians Abakovskis"") (5 October 1895 – 24 July 1921) is best remembered as the inventor of the Aerowagon. Ethnically Russian, he was"
"Aeroflot Flight 217 Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, with a stopover at Shosseynaya Airport (now Pulkovo Airport) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). On 13 October 1972, the Ilyushin Il-62 airliner operating the flight crashed on approach to Sheremetyevo, with the loss of all 164 passengers and crew of 10. At the time, it was the world's deadliest aviation disaster, until it was surpassed by the Kano air disaster in 1973. As of 2016, the accident remains the second-deadliest one involving an Il-62, after LOT Flight"
"station. On 22 October 1960, trains delivered, the motorman of the Moscow underground, Alexey Semagin and Kiev's Ivan Vynogradov, former train operator from Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi, the central railway station, made a test run. The former was driving, while the latter was Semagin's assistant. At last, on the anniversary of the October Revolution, on 6 November 1960, the five stations that now form the central part of what is today known as the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line, which runs from the west to the east of the city, were opened. That day, the motormen changed their places, thus Ivan Vynogragov is now deemed as"
"Władysław Sikorski's death controversy Władysław Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1943 B-24 crash in Gibraltar. Sikorski's Liberator II crashed off Gibraltar almost immediately after take off, with the plane's pilot being the only survivor. The catastrophe, while officially classified as an accident, has led to several conspiracy theories that persist to this day, and often propose that the crash was an assassination, which has variously been blamed on the Soviets, British, Nazis or even a dissenting Polish"
"371.95 days in space. Serebrov contributed to the design of Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and the Mir space stations. He helped design, and, according to a New York Times obituary, ""was the first to test a one-person vehicle - popularly called a space motorcycle - to rescue space crews in distress and repair satellites."" This vehicle, known as ""Icarus"", was tested in February 1990, and remained onboard ""Mir"" for several years but was never used after that. Serebrov died suddenly in Moscow on November 12, 2013, aged 69, and was buried on November 15 at Ostankinsky cemetery. He was awarded:"
"Sikorski Memorial The Sikorski Memorial in Gibraltar commemorates the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash of 4 July 1943 which caused the death of General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile. Fifteen other people also died in the crash, with only the pilot Eduard Prchal surviving. The present version of the memorial, unveiled on 4 July 2013, is the third, replacing two earlier memorials erected in 1945 and 2003 near the scene of the crash. It was designed and constructed by a Polish company, using sandstone from Poland brought across Europe"
"October 26, 1972, and is buried in Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cemetery located on Nichols Avenue in Stratford. In 1966, Sikorsky was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame.. Sikorsky's and Andrei Tupolev's professional careers were covered in the 1979 Soviet biopic ""The Poem of Wings"" () where Sikorsky was portrayed by Yury Yakovlev. A working model of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was recreated for filming. The Sikorsky Memorial Bridge, which carries the Merritt Parkway across the Housatonic River next to the Sikorsky corporate headquarters, is named for him. Sikorsky has been designated a Connecticut Aviation"
"Aeroflot Flight 2022 Aeroflot Flight 2022 was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight between Vilnius Airport in Lithuania and Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia that crashed on 16 December 1973, killing all 51 people on board. The five hundred mile flight suffered a loss of control as a result of a malfunction of its elevator, causing it to crash as it made its final descent into Moscow. At the time of the crash it was the worst accident in aviation history involving a Tupolev Tu-124, since it entered service with Aeroflot in 1962. The aircraft involved in the accident"
"the back upon takeoff. Only the pilot, Eduard Prchal (1911–1984), survived the crash. Sikorski was subsequently buried in a brick-lined grave at the Polish War Cemetery in Newark-on-Trent, England on 16 July that year. Winston Churchill delivered a eulogy at his funeral. On 14 September 1993, his remains were exhumed and transferred via Polish Air Force TU-154M, and escorted by RAF 56 Sqn Tornado F3 jets, to the royal crypts at Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland. Immediately after the crash, a Polish officer who had witnessed the event from the airstrip began sobbing quietly and repeating: ""This is the end"
"in September 1920 as a fusion of the Commissariat of Transport, the Railway unions and the relevant political departments of the Bolshevik Party. Trotsky was put in charge. Leon Trotsky spent much of the Russian Civil War on board his armoured train: After the foundation of the Soviet Union the People's Commissariat of Railways (after 1946 named the Ministry of Railways ) expanded the railway network to a total length of 106,100 km by 1940. A notable project of the late 1920s and one of the centerpieces of the first five-year plan was the Turkestan–Siberia Railway, linking Western Siberia via"
"Republics, a path leading from foreman to Deputy Head of the Main Department for Railway Construction of the North and West. From 1986: headed the newly established production construction and installation union (PSMO) Yamaltransstroy. From 1992: general director of the joint stock company Yamaltransstroy, which became the successor of the PSMO. 525 km of the 572-kilometre long Obskaya-Bovanenkovo railway was built under his leadership and personal participation. In 1997, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yamaltransstroy JSC. Repeatedly elected deputy of Tyumen Oblast and Yamalo-Nenetsky Okrug Council of People’s Deputies. Died on 16 February 2010 in"
"Oblast and one final season with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl where he retired after the 2009–10 season. He became an assistant coach with the team and was still an assistant at the time of his death. Korolev died on September 7, 2011, the day after he turned 41, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia while transporting Lokomotiv to Minsk to play their opening game of the season. Lokomotiv officials said ""everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team."" All aboard were killed, aside from one crew member. Igor and"
"Valerian Abakovsky Valerian Ivanovich Abakovsky (, Latvian: ""Valerians Abakovskis"") (5 October 1895 – 24 July 1921) is best remembered as the inventor of the Aerowagon. Ethnically Russian, he was born in Riga on October 5, 1895. Although a talented inventor, he worked as a chauffeur for the Tambov Cheka. The invention for which Abakovsky is remembered is the Aerowagon, an experimental high-speed railcar fitted with an airplane engine and propeller propulsion. It was originally intended to carry Soviet officials. On 24 July 1921, a group of communists led by Fyodor Sergeyev took the Aerowagon from Moscow to the Tula collieries"
"used to deliver conventional weapons in several regional conflicts since World War II (""e.g."", B-52s in the Vietnam War). Heavy bombers are now operated only by the air forces of the United States, Russia and China. They serve in both strategic and tactical bombing roles. The first heavy bomber was designed as an airliner. Igor Sikorsky, an engineer educated in St Petersburg, but born in Kiev of Polish-Russian ancestry designed the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets to fly between his birthplace and his new home. It did so briefly until August 1914, when the Russo-Balt wagon factory converted to a bomber version,"
"travelling between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The derailment was a terrorist act caused by the detonation of of TNT equivalent. At least 27 people were killed and 96 injured. In a secondary explosion on 28 November, directed at investigators, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, was injured and hospitalised. The incident was reported to have similarities with the 2007 explosion. Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway The Saint Petersburg to Moscow Railway runs for through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow. It is a major traffic artery in the north-west region of Russia, operated by the October Railway subdivision of Russian"
"times about the crash. The only survivor of the accident was the pilot Flight Lieutenant Eduard Prchal, one of six crew on the aircraft. The 11 passengers killed were: Sikorski's body was collected by the Polish Navy destroyer and transported to Britain. He was subsequently buried in a brick-lined grave at the Polish War Cemetery in Newark-on-Trent, England, on 16 July that year. Winston Churchill delivered a eulogy at his funeral. The bodies of Sikorski's daughter and four other passengers and crew were not found. Sikorski's death marked a turning point for Polish influence amongst the Anglo-American allies. He had"
"Vladimir Komarov Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, the first manned test flight of a new spacecraft. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Komarov was one of"
"in person only once, leaving the protagonist disgusted and wishing to quit work for Polyakov forever. Mikhail Danilov, Polyakov's project manager, is a key supporting character of the plot. Samuel Polyakov Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, ) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the ""most famous railroad king"" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the"
"jams in the aircraft's rudder, aileron, and wing trim tab components. Investigators determined that a spontaneous short circuit had caused the elevator trim tab to deflect to and maintain an upward position. As a result, the pilots lost horizontal control and entered into an irrecoverable dive. Aeroflot Flight 2022 Aeroflot Flight 2022 was a scheduled Soviet domestic passenger flight between Vilnius Airport in Lithuania and Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia that crashed on 16 December 1973, killing all 51 people on board. The five hundred mile flight suffered a loss of control as a result of a malfunction of"
"1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash The 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash resulted in the death of an estimated sixteen people, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile. Sikorski's Liberator II crashed off Gibraltar almost immediately after takeoff, with the plane's pilot being the only survivor. While the crash was ruled as an accident, several conspiracy theories continue to persist. The crash marked a turning point for the Polish influence on their Anglo-American allies. The relationship between the Soviet Union and Poland was tenuous at best during World War II for a"
"Aeroflot Flight 2230 Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) to Tashkent. On 16 November 1967, the Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft serving the flight crashed after takeoff, killing all 107 people aboard (including twelve children). At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18. The flight was serviced by an Ilyushin Il-18V turboprop airliner, manufactured on 25 March 1964 with a serial number 184007002. The aircraft made its maiden flight and commenced operations in the same year. On the day of the accident it"
"mass grave on Red Square. Another unusual incident was a railway crash of July 24, 1921. The Aerowagon, an experimental high-speed railcar fitted with an aircraft engine and propeller traction, was not yet tested properly. On the day of the crash it successfully delivered a group of Soviet and foreign communists led by Fyodor Sergeyev to the Tula collieries; on the return route to Moscow the ""aerowagon"" derailed at high speed, killing 7 of the 22 people on board, including its inventor Valerian Abakovsky. This was the last mass burial in the ground of Red Square. Yakov Sverdlov, who died"
"breathed new life into the faltering program. New flights continued apace, and they put the knowledge gained from Soyuz 3 towards missions of increasing audacity and success. Soyuz 3 Soyuz 3 (""Union 3"", ) was a spaceflight mission launched by the Soviet Union on 26 October 1968. Flown by Georgy Beregovoy, the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft completed 81 orbits over four days. The 47-year-old Beregovoy was a decorated World War II flying ace and the oldest person to go into space up to that time. The mission achieved the first Russian space rendezvous with the unmanned Soyuz 2, but failed to"
"Yury Lomonosov Yury Vladimirovich Lomonosov (; 24 April 1876 – 19 November 1952) was a Russian railway engineer and a leading figure in the development of Russian Railways in the early 20th century. He was best known for design and construction of the world's first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive, the E el-2. This was completed in 1924 and went into service in 1925. In the late 1920s, Lomonosov immigrated to Europe and later became a British citizen. Lomonosov was born in 1876 in Gzhatsk (now Gagarin), a town in Smolensk Oblast of Russia. His father Vladimir Grigorievich Lomonosov was"
"Ursus rail crash Ursus rail crash (""Polish:"" ""Katastrofa kolejowa w Ursusie"") was a major accident, which occurred at 6:20 a.m. on 20 August 1990 near the Warszawa Ursus railway station on the west side of Polish capital in which 16 people died and 43 were injured. Direct cause of the accident was passing signal at danger (SPAD) by Tadeusz Mościcki, engineer of Polish State Railways' ""Silesia Express"" no. 41008 from Prague Central Station to Warszawa Wschodnia railway station in a mist with very low visibility and overrode the last carriage of Szklarska Poręba-Warszawa Wschodnia PKP's stopping train no.6114. Second train"
"2003 Stavropol train bombing The 2003 Stavropol train bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on 5 December 2003, in Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai, Russia, when an explosion on a commuter train killed at least 46 people and injured over 170 more. A regional electric train in Stavropol Krai was commuting from Kislovodsk to Mineralnye Vody in Stavropol Krai, when a suicide bomber armed with explosives equivalent to an estimated worth of TNT detonated as the train departed from the station in Yessentuki. Responsibility for the attack was immediately pointed at Chechen terrorists, who had committed previous attacks on trains on"
"the country outside of its urban centers. Those participating in the activities of the agit-train ""October Revolution"" at various times included People's Commissar of Justice D. K. Kursky, People's Commissar of Health N. A. Semashko, People's Commissar of the Interior G. I. Petrovsky, and People's Commissar of Enlightenment Anatoly Lunacharsky. The agit-trains also attracted the direct participation of Bolshevik political leaders. The best known of the agit-trains, the ""October Revolution,"" counted among its complement Mikhail Kalinin as its political commissar, who spent the bulk of the civil war years riding the rails — with the train making a dozen trips"
"by spacecraft visiting the International Space Station. Vladimir Syromyatnikov Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov (January 7, 1933 - September 19, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian space scientist best known for designing docking mechanisms for manned spacecraft; it was his Androgynous Peripheral Attach System which, in the 1970s, linked the Soviet and American space capsules in the Apollo-Soyuz test flight. Syromyatnikov also helped design and develop Vostok, the world's first manned spacecraft, which launched Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961. In the 1990s, he updated the design of his docking mechanism for the meeting of the Mir space station and the Atlantis"
"could not be determined. Investigators did believe the most probable cause was the 'psycho-physiological incapacitation of the crew for reasons unknown'. Somewhere at the 500 – 600 m. elevation, 30 – 25 seconds before impact, the pilots either have been incapacitated or lost control of the plane. Aeroflot Flight 217 Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, with a stopover at Shosseynaya Airport (now Pulkovo Airport) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). On 13 October 1972, the Ilyushin Il-62 airliner operating the flight crashed on approach to Sheremetyevo,"
"limousines trailed behind them. At 2:15 pm on 22 January 1969, as the motorcade passed through the gate, Ilyin drew pistols in both hands. Ignoring the waving cosmonauts, he opened fire on the second car in the line: he later admitted that he only assumed it carried Brezhnev. Unbeknownst to him, this ZiL limousine was filled only with other cosmonauts from earlier missions: Alexey Leonov, Valentina Tereshkova, Georgy Beregovoy and Andrian Nikolayev. Ilyin's shots struck the limousine fourteen times, killing the driver, Ilya Zharkov, before a guard ran Ilyin down with his motorcycle. The other occupants of the car were"