V Molokov (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial card covers, stapled, 4 photos pp28. Soviet propaganda published for the New York Worlds Fair 1939. Design B Schwartz. The author In April 1934 he took part in the successful Arctic aerial rescue operation saving people from the sunken steamship Cheliuskin from an improvised airfield on the ice of the Chukchi Sea. Vasily Molokov saved 39 men[1] - more than any other pilot. His two-seat R-5 took on board 6 men, using parachute boxes under the wings for carrying passengers. He was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for this deed. After the Deed In 1935, Molokov performed an outstanding feat by flying Krasnoyarsk-Kirensk-Yakutsk-Nagaevo-Nizhnekolymsk-Uelen and back along the Arctic coast to Arkhangelsk in a Dornier Do J flying boat and opened a new route over Eastern Siberia and Kamchatka. In 1936, Vasily Molokov performed a flight along the Soviet Arctic coast. In 1937, he participated in a North Pole expedition as the command pilot of TB-3, he deployed crew of a drifting ice station. In 1938, Molokov was appointed head of the Air Fleet Chief Directorate. During the German-Soviet War, he was appointed on October 9, 1941 as the authorised representative of the State Defence Committee on the creation of ALSIB - classified ferrying route for aircraft from Fairbanks to Krasnoyarsk. (Wiki) Condition Very Good marred only by inscribed number to front cover top right corner and 05.cm water stain on cover. Covers light dust-dulling. Page block tight, bright and clean. Sharp edges and corners.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Staple-bound. Paper covers with blue lettering on front. Covers are lightly toned with some spotting on front and a small stain on back. Binding is secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright with some light toning to edges. Printed in B&W. Title page dated 1939. 24 pages. Art by B. Schwartz. Writing in ink on front inside cover. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition in English. 24mo. 4.25" x 5.5". 24, [3]pp. Illustrated. Fine in embossed illustrated wrappers. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A trifle age-toned on the wrappers, about fine. An attractive little pamphlet.