History of aircraft in photos

Leonid Shokin. First plane U-2 in Kimry. The late 1920s. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Karl Bulla. The All-Russia holiday of aeronautics. A balloon before flight. September 8, 1910. Collection of the Central state archive film-photo-audio-documents, Saint-Petersburg

Karl Bulla. Balloon of the All-Russia aeroclub in flight. In commandant's air station. Petersburg. 1910-1912. Collection of the Central state archive film-photo-audio-documents, Saint-Petersburg

Unknown author. Awarded bu Georgievsky crosses the pilot of 3-rd field party F.F. Kochin (on the right) and his mechanic. Moscow. 1915. Collection of the Russian state archive of film-photo-documents, Krasnogorsk

Jacob Steinberg. Aircraft designer I.I.Sikorsky and general-lieutenant N.V.Kaulbars onboard an airplane “Russian hero”. 1913. Collection of the Central state archive film-photo-audio-documents, Saint-Petersburg

Unknown author. The First World War. Repairing of the plane. In a break between combat fights. Malaya Goscha. 1915. Collection of the Russian state archive of film-photo-documents, Krasnogorsk

George Lipskerov. Winged propagandists in collective farm. 1933. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Ivan Shagin. Test-pilot Michael Gromov. 1930th. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Victor Temin. Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova and Marina Raskova, made flight Moscow – Kerbe by plane Rodina. 1938. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Ivan Shagin. On the Red square. 1934. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Ivan Shagin. Valery Tchkalov with the family. A meeting in Moscow after flight to America. 1937. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Evgeni Khaldey. Before a start on the combat mission. Northern front. 1941. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Vsevolod Tarasevich, George Zelma. At the airport of town Osh. The early 1970s. Collection of the Moscow House of Photography

Sergey Sergeev. Demonstration flight of the plane and parachuters. 1997. Author’s collection

Sergey Kowalski. Aviation flight group «Patrol de France». Zhukovski. MAKS-2003. 2003. Author’s collection