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One of the historic Douglas DC-3 airplanes that arrived at Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg escorted by an Antonov 26 aircraft as part of the Alaska-Siberia 2015 project dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. The project aims to retrace the ALSIB Alaska-to-Siberia air route by a group of WWI-era airplanes that used to be shipped by the US to the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Yekaterinburg, Russia
- Event date: 07.08.2015
- Date published: 07.08.2015
- Author: Pavel Lisitsyn
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4928x3280px, 6.4Mb