,DEVELOP. AERIAL COMMUNICATION IN ALL DIRECTIONS, AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WITH REMOTE REGIONS AND WITH LARGE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS  (FROM THE RSEOLUTION OF THE 17th ALL-UNION PARTY CONFERENCE) 

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ЦУНБ им. Н.А. Некрасова Отдел хранения фондов 

CONSTRUCTION 

A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. No 6. JUNE 1932. 

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The scaffolding of new buildings is rapidly rising in all parts of the country. Factories, mines, railroad stations, technicums, radio stations, and socialistic towns are springing up in the most deserted and exotic  places. We must have regular and quick communication with these national republics and autonomous regions that are far removed from the center. One cannot sit for two weeks and more in the far-eastern train to Moscow. It is killing to wait several months for the opening of navigation to Sakhalin island, in order to reach some particular point. It is too wearisome to cross the arid sands of Kara-Kum desert on the back of a camel. The fact that central newspapers are delivered to certain localities on the fifteenth or twentieth day after publication could no longer be tolerated. We must speedily convey engineers, workers, designs and equipment to the new enterprises under construction. We must look deeper into the entrails of our country and know what they contain. We must extract all we can from these entrails for the needs of socialistic construction. Who could help us in this tremendous and complicated task? Soviet civil aviation. Does it help? This question will be answered by the aviation number of our magazine, which is made up of photo-documents illustrating the multifarious activities of Soviet civil aviation. But first of all a few lines of necessary data. 

Regular Soviet air­lines were first established in 1923. At that time we had no aeroplanes or motors of our own, and were obliged to use those of foreign manufacture. The Moscow—Kovno—K nigsberg air-line organized by Deruluft  a Soviet-German mixed company, began to function in 1922. In 1923 a strong campaign was started in all republics of the Union for the organization of our own air-lines, for the development of our own aerial communications and our own Soviet aviation. Thus the  Dobrolot ,  Ukrvozdukjput ,  Zakavia, and, The Society of Friends of Aviation were founded. They put the beginning to the first Soviet air-lines (using imported materials) which embraced the European part of RSFSR, the Ukraine, Transcaucasia and Middle Asia. All these societies were merged in 1929 into one large societythe Dobrolot , and in 1930 the All-Union Civil Aerial Fleet Association (VOGVF) was created. Since then civil aviation has made rapid progress and its wings have become so strong that it ranks among the first in the world. 

The program of the Soviet civil air fleet for 1932 is as follows: 47 000 kilometers of active aerial highways; 9 000 000 kilometers coverage by transporting aeroplanes; transportation of 1 140 000 kilogramms of mail, 790 000 kilogramms of cargo and 35 000 passengers, the destruction of agricultural and forest insects over an area of 810 000 hectares, and malaria musquitoes over an area of 700 000 hectares; the sowing of 5 000 hectares of rice and 20 000 hectares of grass from aeroplanes; aerial photography of 80 000 hectares of territory; explore and guard against fire 10 000 hectares of forest land. 

There could be no doubt that this program will be fully completed. 

squadron of aeroplanes demonstrating over the Red square in Moscow on Mayday. 

Soyuzphoto. 

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