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    The Sverdlovsk plane crash of 7 January 1950 killed all 19 people on board, including almost the entire ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air...
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    January 1950, Sverdlovsk) was a Latvian footballer, boxer, basketball player, and ice hockey player. He died in the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash at age...
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  • Douglas DC-3 crashed after suffering a structural failure of a wing, killing all eight on board. January 5 – In the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, a Lisunov...
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    was the second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team. In 1950, the entire VVS Moscow team died in a plane crash near Sverdlovsk (now known as Yekaterinburg)...
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  • Retrieved August 9, 2013. "Canadian coach McCrimmon among 43 dead in Russian plane crash". The Sports Network. September 7, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2013.[permanent...
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    the second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire VVS Moscow team was killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg)...
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  • ^ Frölunda chartered three planes to carry the entire team's roster, one of which carried seven team members and crashed. (Click on date for associated...
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  • Georgia, 181 F.2d 93 (5th Cir. 1950)". Justia Law. Retrieved 21 January 2019. Associated Press, "Army Plane, 13 Aboard, Crashes Near Mt. Wilson", The San Bernardino...
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    organization in the world – is formed. January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 aboard are killed, including...
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    realize was that the plane crashed almost fully intact and that the Soviets had recovered its pilot and much of the plane's equipment, including its new...
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    on crashed at Sverdlovsk. The plane was carrying the team from Kazan to Chelyabinsk, where it was scheduled to face Traktor Chelyabinsk, and crashed into...
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    Lockheed U-2 (redirect from U-2 spy plane)
    necessary. The committee suggested a plane with advanced optics, flying above 70,000 feet (21,300 m). After 1950, Soviet air defenses consistently intercepted...
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  • Anonymous, "PROBING FATAL STEINHARDT AIR PLANE CRASH," The News Palladium (Benton Harbor, Michigan), March 29, 1950. Isenberg, Michael T., Shield of the Republic:...
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  • decade occurred in October 1958 (1958-10), when a Tupolev Tu-104 crashed en route to Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 80 occupants on...
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    1948–49. On January 7, 1950, as the team was on the way to Chelyabinsk, their airplane crashed in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk), and the only surviving...
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  • January 5 A Soviet Air Force Li-2 (serial number 42 red) crashed at Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) after repeated approach attempts in...
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    CDKA Moscow (later CSKA Moscow). On 5 January 1950 a plane carrying the VVS team crashed at Sverdlovsk, killing the team. Even so, VVS won three consecutive...
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    This particular plane was shot down in 1943 over Karelia, but the heavily wounded pilot, K. Kotlyarovsky, managed to crash-land the plane near Lake Oriyarvi...
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    Guayaquil. The crash, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south of Quito and 150 meters to the summit of the Atacazo, killed all the 37 occupants of the plane. This particular...
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    off. The leader of the rebellion, Yevgeny Prigozhin, later died in a plane crash. Russia's vast landmass stretches over the easternmost part of Europe...
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  • the execution of the Romanov family on 17 July 1918 at Yekaterinburg in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Directed by Julian Nott, made by Peninsula Films 28 August For...
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  • of the fourth season was overshadowed by the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash on 7 September 2011 in which almost all members of the team Lokomotiv...
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    Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit by a surface-to-air...
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    Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age. Voyageur Press. p. 111. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-18V CCCP-75538 Sverdlovsk-Koltsovo...
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    m). Powers parachuted and chose not to commit suicide, and landed near Sverdlovsk, where he was captured alive. Maharashtra and Gujarat were formed as the...
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  • the ensemble who did not board the plane to Syria, later lost in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash. He stayed to care for his recently-born...
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  • Vigdor, Neil (20 June 2021). "9 Children and 1 Adult Are Killed in Alabama Crash". The New York Times. "মগবাজারে বিস্ফোরণের ঘটনায় বিদায় নিলেন রাসেলও" (in...
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    Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people. September 4 – Sverdlovsk's name is restored to its pre-communist–era name Yekaterinburg. Two days...
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    Retrieved 16 October 2016. ""Kurana" Plane Crash". monumentaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 16 October 2016. Aircraft Crashes Record Office AirSafe Aviation Safety...
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    excerpt Lourie, Richard (2017). Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-53808-8. Schoen, Douglas E. and Melik...
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