SIBERIAN WRECKS AND RELICS

Daniel Johnston joins the Ultimate Russian Aviation Tour and traverses Siberia in the pursuit of rare and unusual Soviet-era aircraft. A former Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104A (c/n 920903) in its final resting place at the Samara Technical Institute. Tolyatti’s largely military technical museum also contains this prop-less Ilyushin Il-14. ALL PHOTOS AUTHOR UNLESS STATED Spanning 11 time zones and stretching 5,600 miles (9,000km) from the Black Sea in the west to the Bering in the east, Russia is vast. It accounts