Public transportation in the USSR. Flying AEROFLOT Airlines

Soviet airlines AEROFLOT. Public transportation in the Soviet Union. Soviet people flying Aeroflot.
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[@UshankaShow]

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[@Donaldperson7]

What’s up with the HOT cartoon pictures of hot ladies and then pictures of real ladies all ugly and fat? What is up with that?

[@tinytattoomike7943]

@14:00 that biplane is really special because it was designed not to stall it’s literally impossible to stall it

[@doncarlin9081]

at ~5:40 reminds me when AT&T still was a monopoly, the AT&T operators would always say "Thank you for using AT&T", as if we had any other choice back then lol.

[@Asptuber]

That Aeroflot chicken... I just couldn't eat it. Tea was good though. Unfortunately I was only 13 when I flew Aeroflot Leningrad - Tashkent and back, so I don't remember much except that that chicken was truly unedible. Then we flew on small planes Tashkent-Buhara-Samarkand-Tashkent, and I remember that my mother remarked that the planes looked like they'd already been in use during the Great Patriotic war, and that hopefully the pilots were not as old - just remember that because I found the phrase funny. Oh, and on one of those flights my seat was broken. And no one seemed to care about seat belts.

[@mikelezcurra810]

I flew with Aeroflot from NY to Prague last year. I had heard all kinds of horror stories about Aeroflot in the 90s, but I was very pleasantly surprised. The planes were brand new Airbuses, stewardesses were all very pretty and extremely nice and helpful. Food was some of the best I ever had on a plane (low bar, I know).

[@UshankaShow]

I am glad it wasn't Sukhoi Superjet kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ7ZlKJ3hbGYq6M

[@grrwuff4099]

As a Danish citizen born into the age of the "Cold War" and "Iron Curtain", I'm very curious as to how life in Russia is influenced by the Soviet-era; culture, technology, architecture, social norms, education, free time, etc. Both pros and cons... So thank you 'USHANKA SHOW' for letting me have a peek and try to understand the Russian way of life. Subscribed ;o)

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks!

[@RogerThat787]

Another deep dive into the Ushanka Show Archives. Thanks for the vids Comrade, the internet appreciates you!

[@ZhongXiangyu]

I believe I rode an An-24 when I was in the DPR Korea. It was a domestic flight from Pyongyang to Uiju. Quite an interesting experience.

[@HEDGE1011]

You have great content and I genuinely appreciate your perspectives. I grew up in the US during the Cold War and eventually became a US Air Force pilot. Needless to say we were delighted when the wall came down and I have enjoyed one brief visit to Russia since. I'm now an airline pilot and want to apprise you that during your discussion of Aeroflot accidents there is a minor error in sourcing or editing footage as you show a Southwest Airlines 737 that overran the runway in Chicago on landing, killing a child in the process. Other than this error this is an outstanding video and I thank you sincerely for your efforts! Best Regards!

[@KIEV7385]

Over the years I flew on Aeroflot many many Times....Inside and outside The Soviet Union. Amazingly I had the Two best Flights of my life on Aeroflot. The First was in 1974 I decided to fly Aeroflot to NYC ...It was an IL-62 I believe what I liked was the space between seats was very Large I could relax and it was very comfortable ...One thing I noticed was on the first leg of the trip which was Moscow to London only a small snack was served then when we landed in London I noticed out the window that Marriot In-Flight Food Services was loading up the Plane..So when we took off for NYC a more Western style meal was served...Also I noticed on Aeroflot they would come down the aisle with hard candy before takeoff...later around 1977 I went to Yalta from Moscow and amazingly it was a uncrowded flight ...The Pilot came through the plane saying Hello shaking hands and people seemed to know him (Later I was told he was famous for an Aviation accomplishment) anyway....The plane took off almost effortlessly up into the clouds almost no turbulence then the landing was so smooth ... The entire plane cheered and clapped their hands ...Then the Pilot was standing there shaking hands with everyone as we got off ...never had that happen before or since.....

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

Wow, you don't see that these days. Now they cram as many people as possible for the highest profit margin. Capitalism does some things better, most things reall, but not all things.

[@rrai1999]

@@ElectronFieldPulse I was on a flight to Miami once from Atlanta that wasn't that crowded and I was a kid, so the pilot talked to me for a minute since I was interested in the plane and shook my hand and all that.

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

@@rrai1999 - That is awesome. Now the pilots are locked in the cockpit most of the time

[@bombaymolotov]

​@@ElectronFieldPulsefor good reason. You may just be young enough to not have lived through the 70s and 80s when aeroplanes were getting hijacked on what felt like a monthly basis. Then 9/11 happened and the aviation industry started to take things seriously.

[@Ronbo710]

Thank You for this honest account of the USSR. So many who have never experienced what you have are trying to glorify what they know nothing about.

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Ronbo710 while the opponent politicians try to vilify a self sustainable nation.

[@Brakvash]

@@elperrodelautumo7511 I don't get why you would want to be "self-sustainable", to me that sounds like you want to put up another iron curtain out of paranoia.

[@thefedup9921]

I love the ad picturing the attendant with an upraised gun. Priceless!

[@jamesgorman5692]

We have a similar strange thing here in Britain, the national grid ( the organization that maintains power lines) sponsored a football team. As though there is another means of getting your electricity.

[@timmmahhhh]

When I traveled the USSR as a college student in 1989 we had a very ambitious professor and in our 24 days in the country we had six Aeroflot flights. Went from Leningrad, Novgorod/Susdal, Moscow, flew to Alma-Ata to Tashkent Samarkand, Sochi, and Kiev. We were supposed to go to Tbilisi but there were riots at the time, which was sad because a professor from their architecture university spent a semester at our college, and now we couldn't see him in his homeland. Some planes were larger jets and a couple were prop planes. I'm only 5'-10" high but my knees were in the back of the seat in front of me. The strangest thing to me was that the pilot and flight attendants were the last ones to board the plane and the first to get off. I honestly don't remember anyone telling me to not take photos from the plane but I took one as we took off and some guy really yelled at me, so yeah I didn't do that again.

[@carlblaskowitz7817]

Soviet transport girls premium quality

[@markanderson6133]

Your series is outstanding. In March 1991 the AN-225 visited us here in New England at Hartford, Connecticut (KBDL) and my then eight year old daughter and I were invited aboard and she sat in the left hand seat. Later she sat on the navigator's lap as he showed her what his job was all about. Of course it had Soviet markings then but I am so happy the Antonov Bureau restored her and has her flying the world under Ukrainian colors. May God grant her and all who fly in her many, many years!

[@crackerlackingproductions6746]

Great video. Thank you.

[@huskyflylangley6053]

Thanks for your videos. I love old planes and am currently helping a friend get his AN-2 going. As I work on it I can't help but get more interested in the country and people it came from, that's how I found your channel. This plane is a history, language, culture, and mechanical lesson all rolled up in one. Thank you for posting your stories here. Greetings from CA.

[@huskyflylangley6053]

+USHANKA SHOW Yes. My friend has an Anushka at Auburn airport. Do you have text or Email? I have pics I can send from my days working on it. Are you in California? If you're close, come up and I'll give you a tour of it.

[@jordanpack5571]

Love your channel! In this vid, when talking about the double plane crash, you hesitate when calling it "famous." A good word here is "infamous," which is famous for something bad. Cheers!

[@Damien.D]

Never knew that the An2 was used as a commercial airline plane. I always knew it as crop duster and small transport plane, also used for skydiving. My grandfather was a director in the factory where the plane was last produced, at PZL Mielec, Poland. There is a cemetary of these planes in the aeroclub, but some are still flying for excursion and skydiving. Sidenote, it's also the biggest single engine biplane ever made! Another sidenote, the Tu-114 was indeed based on the Tu-95 and it is the strategic bomber that was used to drop the Tsar Bomba, the enormous 50Mt atomic bomb. Despite the speed of this plane (it's the fastest propeller plane ever made, it is as fast as a jet airliner, or the US B52), the survival of the crew was not assured.... Aeroflot, the only airline that allows you to fly in planes capable of also starting a nuclear apocalypse...

[@hhmartialartscom]

I am fascinated by the USSR and these videos are priceless Ushanka, thanks so much. I notice the pin ups in the videos, the hot girls in a commie Norman Rockwell universe, were those from a specific magazine of that time?

[@coldernice5523]

Very interesting! Enjoyed this one as much as your automobile vid.

[@konstantinIII]

Hi there, love your videos and I think that it is important that people with your background archive your experiences for future generations. I, myself, was born In Birobidzhan, in the JAO, neighboring the Khabarovsk Krai. When I was very little I was taken to an orphanage and later I was adopted at the age of 5 and have lived in the states ever since. But it is very hard to find information about the Russian Far East in general since little of it has much cultural impact on main Russia. I just mostly wanted to ask you to do a video one what you know about the Far East, Climate, industy, economy, and culture and other little facts about it.

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Здравствуйте. Да, точно. Аэрофлот - был самая большая компания в Мире. Thank you for sharing these lessons.

[@MrBnsftrain]

so civilian air travel was allowed in the USSR, it's just that it was expensive. I just assumed the USSR only used passenger aircraft to transport higher-ups within the Soviet Union and to transport Soviet people to other countries and republics, to save the potential for warplanes and cargo planes

[@lyricaltraveller]

One of my most favorite airplanes is the TU-114. After that it's the Yak 3. Great designs.

[@marcelosanchez5597]

Hi Ushanka, I think mention the Tu-154 was a must😂😂 You should talk about this famous plane too. Greetings from Peru💪

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Greetings senior from Peru. I am a Peruvian American subscriber of this channel. Como estas. 🇵🇪 🇺🇸

[@RetroPaladin85]

I LOVE the IL-62M I fly it all the time on FSX. She's a tail heavy beast but FAST.

[@baraxor]

I have an old copy of the World Aviation Directory for Winter 1987, and a quick tally of equipment used by the major and regional air carriers in the United States (that is to say, not counting commuter air companies or charters) showed that these airlines used just over 3000 aircraft to serve their U.S. domestic and international routes. I couldn't tell how this would compare to what Aeroflot used for its scheduled domestic and international flights, because unlike the American carriers Aeroflot didn't list how many aircraft it operated (no doubt this was a state secret).

[@baraxor]

The Aeroflot route map at 6:51 has no date, but careful observation will tell you that it was during the Allende government in Chile (1970-1973), before the Pinochet coup, because there's one route stretching all the way down to Santiago, Chile. Of course, at that time there would be no service to either Francoist Spain or Portugal. Khrushchev put a lot of support in developing the Il-62, because he wanted a long range jet and not a turboprop when traveling around the world, as the American presidents had the Boeing 707 from late 1959 onward.

[@Blackadder75]

Common sense says that the US commercial airfleet was a lot bigger than the USSR fleet. The population was bigger and the percentage of people that could afford to fly would dwarf that of the soviets

[@Ira88881]

@@Blackadder75 They didn’t have cars, so they flew.

[@jackofswords7]

On my train trip from Zaporizhzhia to Yevpatoriya, I, at 6"2' had exactly that problem with my feet sticking out and people brushing past them and waking me.

[@UshankaShow]

That's why second shelf is better for tall people ))

[@jackofswords7]

@@UshankaShow If only I had known that then.

[@ricequin]

Amazingly the Antonov An-2 is still flying passengers in 2022.

[@norgepab2802]

Ahhh! You forgot my favorite, the an-28! Amazing video though. Love your channel

[@malcolmallerton3946]

I like your shows as you tell it as it is no propaganda that’s good thank you

[@J_E_Sandoval]

I flew Aeroflot from Leningrad to Helsinki in 1986. The main thing I remember is the steep dive they used to do before landing. Great video!

[@mariekatherine5238]

An acquaintance of mine got involved with an evangelical church that made missionary trips to Russia. This was in 1991-1993. For months beforehand she studied phrase cards in anticipation of converting the communist atheists to born agains. The cards were specific to different regions and situations, like flight attendants, city dwellers, farm workers, etc. On the flights, both Aeroflot, there was lots of turbulence, and when she returned, it was without the cards. She quit the evangelical church and converted to Russian Orthodox! I lost contact with her, so it’d be interesting to know if she’s still living, whether she’s Russian Orthodox.

[@IrishPartizan]

Last time I was in Russia, I had to go from Sheremetyevo 2 (international) to Sheremetyevo 1 (internal) by gypsy cab.

[@paulndaoc]

Aeroflot carries 15% of the world's passenger traffic about 1990, 138 million passengers with service to 3,600 locations.

[@YohanLeao]

fantastic story; thanks so much

[@intel386DX]

how you forgot to mention about the first super sonic passenger plane TU-144 and how mach was a ticket for it ?

[@randyschaff8939]

That was extremely interesting

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Serious babes on Soviet airlines. Nice.

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

I'm not complaining!!!!

[@djlondon7956]

I'd love to know what people think of flights on modern Aeroflot!

[@LMB222]

You've skipped much about the infamous Aeroflot quality. A friend of mine flew on an overbooked flight to Crimea, and was given… a folding seat and told to sit in the aisle.

[@kaycey7361]

There was an incident where the passenger were asked to donate money for fuel in an distant russian siberian outpost.

[@brittsaunders4621]

I flew from Kyiv to St. Petersburg in 1992 aboard a TU-154B-2 with a group of students from SPSU (St. Petersburg State University). The plane was overbooked by one person; he had to sit in the toilet during the flight and step out when someone had to use it!

[@don_5283]

That Il-62 looks so weird, with the twinned tail-mounted engines.

[@Canleaf08]

It is like a Vicker VC10...

[@pourindiesel]

1 shot of Vodka per episode!

[@alexdentondxiw]

Comrade here’s an interesting fact about the TU-134. That aircraft was used to train pilots on the TU-160 bomber. Which is the variable geometry Russian version of the B-1B lancer

[@user-ok2fe6vv4e]

over the years i took a few Aeroflot flights, i'm surprised you didn't make a post about the airports. which are just crazy. the runing joke about edward snowden that he had to stay in the Moscow airport is not that he was hiding from someone, but was that he couldn't find the right gate. terminals in soviet countries were not really arranged for convenience. as for the airline-i once almost had an accident with an Aeroflot plane, taxiing of in warsaw, poland, to go to lithuania. in the middle of the run, the plane stopped suddenly, and we could see smoke coming out of one of the for propellers. food was not so bad, if i recall. strange , but one i had an aeroflot flight in uzbekistan, and they served us beer in a plastic bottle. up until the ukraine war, aerroflot was still the primary carrier in the central asian region. there are plenty of smaller airlines now, but they are terrible and aeroflot is doing very bad indeed since they got sanctions for the war. but i havent been n any of their flights for more than 10 years.

[@RogerThat787]

Never got to fly on this airline.

[@dave8599]

At 15:15 is that a French Caravelle Aircraft? The Caravelle windows had the shape shown, did any Soviet planes have that shap window too?

[@mikrologia7455]

Yes it is Caravelle.

[@jamesw17]

Being the biggest doesn't necessarily mean all that much. The Indian rail service is very probably the biggest in the world by several metrics but it is a chaotic, slow, inefficient and unthinkably complex mess.

[@Tonyx.yt.]

no, indian railway sistem is only 4th in the world, less than half of first and second on the list, US and china

[@jamallabarge2665]

At 11:36 - the Ekranoplane. Uniquely Russian. Intended for high speed maneuver over water. My sole concern with it would be how it would manage turbulent air, choppy seas or cross winds. They were huge air craft. Suitable for getting there the fastest with the most. I do think that Russia should continue work. They might be useful for disaster recovery relief. You could tote a whole hospital to the scene, park it, bring the patients out to it.

[@Slimc74]

Didnt the national hockey team perish in a plane crash too? In the 1950s?

[@LeftistUprising]

9:38 - What you said at 9:17 - They seem to serve many really good foods, and not just that awful chicken.

[@davidb5867]

If I recall correctly, didn't Aeroflot claim thousands of military aircraft and even helicopters (many of them parked and scrapped, like the Tu-144) as part of their "active" fleet?

[@spieler440]

Hello, former East German living in America. I am curious if you think the the United States would be better under the current healthcare plan, or a universal plan. Not necessarily like you or I had, but something more like France's system? And I love your videos by the way!!!

[@robertcorbell1006]

As an American who has a number of family from Norway, I can say that switching to the system as used by most modernized countries would only benefit the nation as doctors instead of working as private contractors would be government-trained and on a system of meritocracy, going from General Practice to highly skilled Specialist via on-job training in addition to their medical school and internship period which would increase their skill and eliminate malpractice. The US currently ranks as 36th in quality of healthcare and 11th in child mortality for the developed world which is a disgrace to anyone with a sense of care and decency for their fellow human beings. By giving up one's tax returns and letting their money go towards not ever having to pay for the doctor or have medical bills aside from co-pays for proscriptions of medicine ordered by the physician (anywhere from two to thirty USD, not unlike the standard flat rate of nine pounds in the UK with their NHS), they save money in the long run and the taxes doctors pay funnel back into the government to fund the various projects and stimulate the economy. Instead, they through far-right brainwashing and blind nationalism would rather cut off their own nose to spite their own face as the old saying goes and forsake any attempts to modernize healthcare as to not become "communists". This includes people that are supposed to be "liberal" by American standards (only because they pretend through cheap token words and gestures to support minorities to get votes when they only care about making tax money off them because they're right-wingers in leftist clothing, all due to just how hateful and prejudiced our right is that are dumb enough to believe them) such as Hillary and Bill Clinton and other figures. Barack Obama while president and Bernie Sanders as a congressman were and are the only ones who believe in it actually tried and failed to implement it due to the majority of the government and roughly 60% of the nation's people being against it. It's a shame that more of the US can't simply open their minds and bother to do the research and visit other countries in order to learn for themselves how well a national healthcare system would work and actually help rather than hurt the economy. My very own father who for years was a Republican and right-wing actually came around to believing in the value of such a thing from the perspective of tax income, much as Margaret Thatcher did in England when she tried to end the NHS but stopped when she realized that without the doctors on the government payroll, the taxes going directly to parliament would be ended and she wouldn't get paid. This is to say nothing of the humanitarian end of it. So yes, it would be better for the US as a nation.

[@BW-fz5kf]

USHANKA SHOW I have a uncle in Canada and he has cancer and he says the healthcare system is horrible. You may even have to wait 10-15 hours in the hospital for treatment. And most hospitals lack medicine and equipment so they have to ration it's horrible. He says treatment was better when insurance was private. He travels to the USA from Toronto for treatment due to the unprofessional Canadian hospitals.

[@spikespiegel5878]

wasnt the konordski aka the tupolev TU144 also used by aeroflot?

[@abandonedchannel281]

They still build the An-2 in China but with never engines and cockpit

[@ericb4121]

How easy was it to fly outside of the Eastern Bloc? Were the flights abroad only for government workers and foreigners?

[@geoffreyarnold7292]

Sergie, what about lawyers, lawsuits, litigation in the USSR? Below someone mentioned that there wasn't much of a push to wear seatbelts on the airliners. So I presume passengers or families could not sue the state owned companies over accidents. It might mean that your society wasn't dominated by constant threat of litigation, frivolous lawsuits and the "lawsuit lottery."

[@zcarolivan4638]

Why no word about mighty Tu-154, the most famous (and in my opinion) the greatest soviet/russian aircraft?

[@jonathanwatanabe8246]

Sergei... are there alot of stories of Engineers and other professionals quitting their jobs to become taxi drivers or waiters so they could live "the sweet life"?

[@TheBengalDragon]

Hello my friend, I heard that there was a plane called a TU144. Apparently it was so loud that you could not talk to people next to you and you had to write what do you want to say in a piece of paper. This would imply that at one point that was a passenger airline. Do you know anything about this?

[@EuropeYear1917]

“WHAT PLANE?! Soviet planes do not crash, and Stalin’s son does not fuck up!” - Vasily Stalin (Rupert Friend) from “The Death of Stalin” (2017)

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

Brought to you by Aeroflot airlines 🇷🇺

[@GiantLeninHead]

Are you ever going to do a video on Soviet military vehicle? Such as the KM and Lun-Class Ekranoplan?

[@BennysBenz]

How bout the Aeroflot Concordeski?

[@namelesske]

Antonovs used to be top in durability...

[@wonderfuldude10]

Great video! I was wondering if there was ever famine or starvation in the Soviet Union and was there ever any days or nights where you would go with little or no food ?

[@Jan.99]

Very informative.! Did Aeroflot has any discounted or free tickets policy for veterans, national heroes etc. ?

[@postgradsibstud9321]

Totally false. My dad say that flight ticket from Novokuznetsk to Kemerovo cost 7 rub. For example bus ticket-5 rub. Average pension was 75 rubles.Cost of flighing from Moscow to Khabarovsk is not a good example because it is really HUGE distances and as you say people there earn far higher salaries.Average flight were shorter for example Moscow-Novosibirsk cost 56 ruble.

[@Lrnd]

As we all know, in USSR there was commodity shortage. The amount of money was higher then amount of producing goods for people to spend money. So 1) Generaly, there were no problems with money. 2) There were problems with goods and services deficit. Number of flights with Aeroflot was less then people needs also, so at the summer period you had to spent many hours in queue, in order to buy this tickets. But if you was guy with patience this was qute possible. From the other hand, it was stronly desireble when you travel to long distance. If you lived at europein part and traveld to distence about only 1000-1500km, it was easier to get tickets on train. And the fact: in the middle of 80s Aeroflot was moving about 120 millions of soviet people every year from may to november. Definitely , flights was quite affordable.

[@theothertonydutch]

The AN-2 is one of my favorite aircraft. Maybe because my name is Anton. :P

[@Ciresw]

Dear Ushanka, Can you please do a video about the Soviet auto industry? I'd like to know more about the engine specs of the Zil-41047. Were the engines based on a Soviet design, or did they copy a design from the West? I understand that the newer Zil limousines are using a Detroit Allison automatic transmission?

[@Ciresw]

Too bad, there really doesn't seem to be very much information regarding the designing and technical specs of Soviet era cars, and the little information that is out there is often contradictory. Oh well, one of these days.

[@Wok_Agenda]

Copy from the west? You'll end up in gulag if you talk like that

[@RogerThat787]

Aeroflot shoutout!!!!!

[@Dome31337]

Man, those waitresses and female flight attendants.

[@UshankaShow]

Comrade, stay focused on the story!

[@Lex5576]

Aeroflot did have the largest fleet, and the greatest number of employees. But United and American each flew consistently more air miles and more passengers, using fewer employee hours per passenger/mile. The thing about socialist run transportation networks is that they're notoriously very inefficient because their operations are government subsidized.....that's French for not having incentive to hustle and get the lead out.

[@capoz33]

My personal favourite was always the TU-154

[@mountainman679]

Wait would you ever go back to the Soviet Union if Lenin was alive, and lived under his rule if you were born around at his time of rule?

[@LucianoClassicalGuitar]

It's better than capitalism where it sounds like a terrible idea, and it actually does turn out pretty ugly :P Just a matter of looking at South America, Africa, Asia, and current Europe. Poor people everywhere living in misery...Imagine communism with today's technologies and industrial advancements. Half the battle in Soviet Union was the industrial problems and technology needed to feed all the people. Today that would not be a problem. Computers and automation could do all the boring jobs while people could excel at art and innovation.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

No, secretism and the strict control of information would greatly affect those. currently is not as bad as the KGB days and it's regarded as infringing personal liberties.

[@anestisgenk591]

Make a video about conscription. Have you served in the army? If not you, probably your father, cousins, friends, did. I would also liked a video about politics, I mean, elections, democracy etc. And a video about foods, music, films, bars, clubs, discos. Ah and a video about sports and another for motorsports. What have you studied? What your parents did after the collapse? I mean work, house.

[@user-yy6yc7ie4f]

Сережка привет! Ну ты даешь хлопчЫна !... Молодец! Правильно "тупые" \ по Задорнову\ американцы должны знать о жизни в Совет. союзе !Увидела твой канал не давно т.к. долго не была на Ютубе.Болею сама да еще и у мужа инсульт случился.Привет жене ! Тебе удачи !

[@shaivlogs7862]

Comrade? can u do a video about clothing brands and fashion in the soviet era?

[@Davidlp70]

The reason Aeroflot was so big was because they included helicopters and small propeller planes that fit only 4 people as part of their fleet whereas airlines in the west only counted jets as commuter aircraft belong to contracted companies that carry their logo...such as SkyWest Airlines operates for United, Delta and American Airlines.

[@robertduggan1531]

When I used Aeroflot in 88 on a flight from Moscow to Leningrad, not only people were passengers! Going up the ramp just a little behind us were goats and chickens, that was a big surprise!Also because it was a domestic flight they did not have to adhere to international flight regulations. When we banked about 30° when turning my brother was throughly convinced we were going to crash. Luckily I've flown many times with a pilot friend of mine and I convinced my brother it was safe. I much preferred the train buying a compartment. Relaxing and a lot more contact with people. There were many interesting characters.

[@enysuntra1347]

Has anybody tried to re-create chicken à la Aeroflot, and published the recipe?

[@anon_bast]

Great video, but it needs a bit of clarification. When Sergey says that people in Siberia earned a lot of money, he probably means so-called "closed" cities. Military/high-tech settlements in the middle of nowhere-there people had wages higher than average. But saying that an average Siberian earned more than a guy from central/western regions is bluntly wrong. Siberia was always poor as an asshole, and many Siberians dreamed day and night about moving to Moscow.

[@ale_s45]

Amazing video bou forgot about the (unfortunate) Tupolev Tu-144!

[@youtubehatesus2651]

I have flown Aeroflot

[@iverar]

Thanks, Sergei! Was it necessary to get some permission or have papers if you wanted to travel in the USSR on Aeroflot? Did you have to get the tickets at the airport? It is interesting the flights even inside the USSR were expensive. Since this was the state airline and getting subsidies from the government it seems like the flights would have been very cheap.

[@zappababe8577]

I suppose you've heard all the jokes about Aeroflot and their terrible safety record, Sergey? "Aeroflot is the best airline in the world! In just 5 minutes it will transport you to your grave..."

[@UshankaShow]

The only Aeroflot jokes I recall were about passengers doing stupid things

[@mbear1639]

Can you talk about what your parents/grandparents lives were like under Stalin? Did they live in fear? I am aware of how many people from Ukraine were shipped to the G.U.L.A.G.S. in Siberia.

[@conantdog]

The greatest aircraft designers in the world , Russia 👍 At the cutting edge today of military multi mission aircraft . The saving and privatization of the aircraft manufacturers after the fall of the USSR and and digital technologies were two of the things that enabled the best designers to build the best military aircraft that exist today.

[@RogerThat787]

The chicken in the pic you showed of that chicken is a little suspect.

[@alwssofy7748]

where is ty 144

[@wonderfuldude10]

Also I wanted to know if you had a better quality of life when the Soviet Union collapsed

[@tiborpurzsas5465]

Hoo is the krazy blond chick in the ad ?

[@RetroGUY77]

In the UK, a lot of people joked about Aeroflot. Here's a joke from the BBC's Mock the Week: Andy: He said he was relieved to land in Moscow, but he was flying Aeroflot so I imagine everyone was relieved...

[@postgradsibstud9321]

Actually Soviet air transportation was FAR BETTER than we have today in Russia and most of the post Soviet countries. Despite it was only one air company it had REALLY HUGE coverage from capitals like Moscow and Leningrad to small polar outposts like Chersky or Khatanga. An-2 made their flights almost in every big villages. Almost evey big city had its own airport with regular flights.And flight tickets cost not so expencive by the way-stop lying. After USSR collapsed all of our air traffic was just ruined.Thousands of airports were shut down,flight tickets prices jumped up in several times and only recently the situation began to improve.For example the airport in Gorno Altaysk was shut down for 18 years and it was only recently reopened.

[@taketimeout2share]

Who do you work for?

[@user-do5zk6jh1k]

Sounds like an opprtunity to open a regional carrier in Russia.

[@dnickaroo3574]

Possibly some Air flights are privatised now, and cost more -- like the Company that makes AK rifles (they are less reliable than when they were State-owned because the Owners now want to make Profit -- much of this is then spent outside Russia). So the Kalashnikov is not what it used to be.

[@jeffczermanski2993]

Could a regular person get a pilot license?? And fly their own plane? Could you even buy a plane?

[@devonalexreckon6048]

USHANKA SHOW well it wouldent be privet unless its use for profit , you could have personal plane and it would still be socialist

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Tu 144

[@davidluther3955]

YOU WOULD'NT GET ME ON ANY RUSSIAN MADE AIRPLANE BECAUSE, THERE BASICALLY UNSAFE.

[@meaninter03]

What's that ekranoplan doing there??

[@danielfranco9473]

Have you seen the topolev 144 the ussr Concorde

[@luvzfrance24]

I assume that they did not have first class until after 1991? Also is the myth about needing government permission to travel through out Russia true?