Word: osoaviakhim
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...more formidable than Britain's ATS, WAAFS and WRENS, who do exactly the same jobs, and who also wear uniforms. There are no female combat privates in the Red Army, Nazi statements to the contrary. A few young women have been admitted as sharpshooters into OSOAVIAKHIM, Russia's Home Guard. Aside from them, any fire-spitting Amazons captured by the Germans are operating strictly on their...
...Osoaviakhim is the name of a vast Russian organization the job of which is to build up the Soviet's military reserves by training civilians and youths of pre-military age in such things as parachuting, aviation and chemical defense. "Enemies of the People" have wormed their way even, into this holy of holies. Declared Na Strazhe, Osoaviakhim's official organ, "Every enemy must be revealed...
...planes and possibly much higher.* Some 50,000 miles of airlines, mostly unaided by radio, cover all of Russia proper and much of Siberia. Last year these lines transported 200,000 passengers and 7,500 tons of mail against U. S. figures of 1,146,138 and 7,689. Osoaviakhim (civil aviation society) has 7,000,000 members, most of whom make parachute jumps for amusement. Some 600,000 Soviet children belong to model plane clubs, hold 13 model plane records...
...been reported drifting southeast of Moscow but nobody was sure. At 3 p. m., behind the Kremlin's closed doors, A. S. Enukidze, stolid secretary of the Central Executive Committee, mounted the rostrum before the Congress. Gravely he began: "Comrades, I have bad news for you. The Osoaviakhim balloon met disaster yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 5 o'clock near the village of Potisky Ostrog [150 mi. southeast of Moscow]. The balloon and gondola crashed and the three aeronauts were killed instantly." A mournful sigh swept like a wave through the hall. Then: "It seems the disaster...
...Since the Soviet Union is not represented in Federation Aeronautique Internationale its records are not officially recognized. However, both Osoaviakhim's and last year's Red Army performances surpass the official world's record of 61,237 ft. made last November by Lieut. Commander G. W. ("Tex") Settle, U. S. N. and Major Chester L. Fordney...