Какие самолёты СССР летали дальше всех? Топ-15 рекордсменов по дальности полёта

June 24, 1938. Moscow, Frunze Central Aerodrome. A crowd fills the airfield, peering into the overcast sky. Waiting. And then, from the low clouds, a silhouette emerges—a twin-engine monoplane with red stars on its wings. It lands smoothly, almost silently. When the propellers stop, two people climb out of the cockpit. Their faces are wind-beaten, their movements are stiff—the many hours of flying in the open cockpit are taking their toll. They are Vladimir Kokkinaki and Alexander Bryandinsky. They have just accomplished the impossible: they flew nonstop from the capital to Vladivostok in a TsKB-30 Moskva aircraft. 7,580 kilometers in 24 hours and 36 minutes. At an altitude of up to seven thousand meters, there was barely enough oxygen, and the outside temperature was -40 degrees. For warmth, the only things they had were fur overalls and fortitude. When navigator Bryandinsky climbed onto the wing, he couldn't straighten his fingers, but he held the map marked "Vladivostok" tightly. The airport lounge erupted in applause. This flight wasn't just a record. It proved to the world that Soviet aviation was capable of uniting the largest country on the planet into a single whole. From Moscow to Kamchatka, from the Arctic ice to the sands of the Pamirs. Airplanes became the very thread that held together an empire where trains took weeks to arrive and roads simply didn't exist. 00:00 — Introduction: Kakinaka and Brendinsky's Record (TsKB-30 "Moscow") 01:46 — What this video is about: The 15 most migratory aircraft of the USSR 02:38 — Geography of the USSR and the Role of Aviation 03:48 — Rating Criteria: Actual Practical Range 04:22 — Aviation of the 1930s: From Records to Mass Production 05:42 — 15th Place: Po-2 (the legendary "Kukuruznik") 07:39 — 14th Place: Yak-12 (local airline all-terrain vehicle) 10:01 — 13th Place: An-2 (the most mass-produced biplane in history) 11:58 — 12th place: Il-14 (the backbone of polar aviation) 13:40 — 11th place: An-24 (a turboprop workhorse) 15:59 — 10th place: Li-2 (the Soviet Douglas) 17:49 — 9th place: Tu-104 (the first jet breakthrough) 19:50 — 8th place: An-12 (the main workhorse of the military transport aviation) 21:35 — 7th place: Il-86 (the first Soviet Airbus) 23:04 — 6th place: Tu-154 (a symbol of the Aeroflot era) 24:39 — 5th place: Il-18 (the flagship of long-haul flights in the 1960s) 26:11 — 4th place: An-22 "Antey" (a transport giant) 27:44 — 3rd place: Tu-114 (turboprop monster for intercontinental flights) 29:07 — 2nd place: Il-62 (intercontinental flagship) 30:22 — 1st place: Il-96-300 (absolute range record holder) 31:54 — Conclusion and findings