Departed of the Soviet future

Departed of the Soviet future As pilots ran from the USSR on September 24 to the USA at the age of 76 years the former Soviet pilot Victor Ivanovich Belenko died. The American The New York Times newspaper reported on November 21 about it. On September 6, 1976 it overtook to Japan the interception aircraft MiG-25 with a set of the confidential equipment onboard, and was granted political asylum in the USA later. About it and other similar cases — in "Kommersant" photo gallery. On October 9, 1948 pilots Barsov Anatoly (the second on the right) and Pirogov Petr (on the right) flew up from air base of Kolomyya (The Ivano-Frankovsk area of Ukraine) on the Tu-2 bomber. On...