February 9, 1923: The Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR adopted a resolution “On the Organization of the Council for Civil Aviation.” The first state company, Dobrolyt, was founded, renamed in 1932 to Aeroflot. The first route by which passengers could fly was the 420-km-long Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod air route. This date is the birthday of the civil air fleet of the USSR.



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